Eating squirrels

My Mother used to cook them in a pressure cooker with rice. My Dad was quite a squirrel hunter. I still remember picking #8 shot out of the meat before I ate it, LOL. Lead hazards were ignored back then.

That video is by ABC about ground squirrels. Wish I hadn't wasted time going to it. Tree squirrels eat birds eggs too which is just another reason to shoot them when I get a chance.

yummy...squirrel stew

CharlieF said:

My Mother used to cook them in a pressure cooker with rice. My Dad was quite a squirrel hunter. I still remember picking #8 shot out of the meat before I ate it, LOL. Lead hazards were ignored back then.

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number 8s, man I bet there were quiet a few in meat, usually used 4,5 or 6s when I used a shotgun sometimes still too many in meat.. always tried to shoot them up front by aiming off the tip of their nose.

Calbarry said:

For those of you who eat the squirrels you shoot, check out this video.

Move over acorns, there’s something new on the menu.

Move over acorns, there’s something new on the menu. A recent U.C. Davis study found evidence that some squirrels are carnivorous. Their prey of choice — voles — which are small rodents. It’s part of a study on how California ground squirrels, specifically at Briones Regional Park in Contra...

nextdoor.com

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Too bad the city boys at UC Davis didn't just ask some folks that live where there are squirrels. They could have been told the same thing for doubtlessly millions less in federal tax dollars...

GsT

JimD said:

That video is by ABC about ground squirrels. Wish I hadn't wasted time going to it. Tree squirrels eat birds eggs too which is just another reason to shoot them when I get a chance.

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I wasn't going to "sign in" to watch but eating Ground Squirrels? Really? After watching them cannibalize their own for the past 8 years I'd never CHOOSE to do that. Akin to eating rats & mice!

I've had gray's attempt to reach or gnaw into our bluebird boxes . I stress the word ATTEMPT !

Gerry52 said:

I wasn't going to "sign in" to watch but eating Ground Squirrels? Really? After watching them cannibalize their own for the past 8 years I'd never CHOOSE to do that. Akin to eating rats & mice!

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Same, they are basically zombie rats. Many of them are covered in bugs and parasites and diseases etc. No thanks, a nice clean tree squirrel though....

My dad and uncle used to eat a lot of tree squirrels, bbq with bacon and jalapenos. I had a couple as a kid and really liked them. He also used to eat the brains which I never thought was a good idea, but they grew up pretty poor.

Boil grays hindquaters until the meat falls of the bones. Put it with chicken stock and make soup of choice.. Meat is white and you will drive a , I would never eat a squirrel they are a rat,
sister in law close to insanity when she tells you how good it is and you then disclose the secret. Happened 40 years ago I can still double over laughing when I remember that meal, lol.

I would never eat a skwirrel near an urban environment or anywhere they might be eating poison. If you have to boil the meat, it usually isn't a good thing in my book. However, I don't look down my nose on anyone who eats skwirrelz

I was up in Pittsfield Illinois yesterday for work, seen the biggest Fox squirrel in my life. I honestly thought it was a deep orange tomcat. This thing was almost rabbit sized. I wish I had one of my guns on me for it. I bet it was tasty, with all those walnut, oak, and hickory trees up there.

I cooked 10 grey squirrels today. I steam them for an hour in an electric pressure cooker and then put BBQ sauce on as I eat them. I ate one for dinner (with mac and cheese and broccoli) and then pulled the meat from the bone before refrigerating the other 9 for future meals. I measured the meat from 9 squirrels at 29 ounces. 3-4 ounces per squirrel. Or about 25% of the live weight.

Here's tonight's dinner. Yummy.

Last weekend I cleaned freezer out of squirrels and made huge gumbo over 25 I deboned feed family and neighbors and still got three gallons in freezer