Eating it!

pcparmy

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Mar 27, 2019
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Tonight we enjoyed some smoked and braised woodchuck nachos. We thanked the woodchuck for the meat, my friend Landon for preparing it, and me for “shooting it in the brain”. I love how real we keep it at the dinner table, my kids have no misconception where our food comes from, or what it takes to obtain it. They have both harvested game already themselves!

Edited to add: this woodchuck was in one of the pesting videos, 80 something yards DRT 36 grain nsa slug @ 835fps

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Thanks guys,

Yeah we dont allow hunting on our land unless we are there either farrah.

my wife will eat just about anything luckily, though she prefers beef pork and deer.

She eats squirrel once a year. We host this awesome event called squirrelapaloosa each year for us and some friends. Last year we had about twenty hunters. Big party sunday night full of wild game dinner and spirits, everyone crashes all over the house, and then monday morning we all hunt squirrel till mid morning. Clean them and then go back out to the woods and roast them over a fire as we all relive the hunt and enjoy the day and usually some cocktails. I miss September already........


 
Hunters that eat what the shoot know you have to use your imagination to create a decent recipe for game which tends to have what most of us call a gamey taste/odor. Every now and then I’ll get together with friends and we will have a bbq where we all bring homemade sausage made with game. I’ve had some really great meals this way as we all try to out do each other with new creations and blends of meat. I have found that adding pork add more to the flavor that other meats along with a pallet of seasonings.
 
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Here is the clan motto engraved in my cow’s bone, on a crossbow I built from scratch. The wood is curly maple, the inlays are real silver, cattle bone, and deer antler. I blacksmithed all metal parts except the actual bow (i dont have a tempering oven and wasnt taking a chance). This xbow has put many squirrels, a few woodchucks, and three deer on my table. Neat aside. It was a fun build, luckily only took about 200 hours lolol