what do varmint hunters do with their kills?
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In Australia
I only head shoot rabbits because they taste great.
Foxes i look for a text book kill shot.
Crows usually blow up.
Feral cats i try to blow them up.
Feral pigs any shot is a good shot (farmers wishes), usually a text book kill though.
Goats Vitals only, the poor buggers squeal if wounded.
Hares chest, head shot. Good for eating.
I only head shoot rabbits because they taste great.
Foxes i look for a text book kill shot.
Crows usually blow up.
Feral cats i try to blow them up.
Feral pigs any shot is a good shot (farmers wishes), usually a text book kill though.
Goats Vitals only, the poor buggers squeal if wounded.
Hares chest, head shot. Good for eating.
fisherman66
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I allow the local environ to absorb them if they are not meat creatures. They may be bait for hogs. Usually I'm just glad to give my preferred game animals a slight edge in the food chain.
Not a problem. Me and Mrs. jd just spent 3 days calling coyotes, and never killed a one.
Yeah, I'm kinda baffeled.
When we do kill them, we take very good care of the hides, and lately have been sending them in for tanning. - bg wants to make a coyote comforter.
I don't know anyone who eats coyote, but who knows; it may be great
. Two hours in the oven with mushroom soup will do wonders for most anything.
jd
Yeah, I'm kinda baffeled.When we do kill them, we take very good care of the hides, and lately have been sending them in for tanning. - bg wants to make a coyote comforter.
I don't know anyone who eats coyote, but who knows; it may be great
. Two hours in the oven with mushroom soup will do wonders for most anything. jdWhat, indeed?
Almost anything is edible, particularly if one is willing to adjust one's standards occasionally.
I'd imagine that even coyotes--at least the ones that aren't professional dumpster divers--are edible; any standard recipe for dog should work. Good luck getting hold of dog recipes in the US, though--or getting away with trying them.
Almost anything is edible, particularly if one is willing to adjust one's standards occasionally.
I'd imagine that even coyotes--at least the ones that aren't professional dumpster divers--are edible; any standard recipe for dog should work. Good luck getting hold of dog recipes in the US, though--or getting away with trying them.
Art Eatman
Staff in Memoriam
Not being in the fur-selling business, I figure that a dead varmint is food for other varmints. No dead critter lasts long. I've even seen dead cows become nothing but white, scattered bones in a week or so...
They're edible to some animals, but you'd be hard put to swallow a bite of it.
Ever skinned a coyote? The meat has a certain odor to it, and according to a good friend of mine, it tastes just like it smells.
See, he and I are into salvaging most things we shoot, including the useable parts of coyotes. He tells me of once picking out a nice one, fattened on orchard apples, to eat.
He fixed it up, cut himself off a bit, and tried to eat it. He said you can chew it all day long if you want to, but you won't be able to swallow it.
And I generally take his word for it on things like that. He'll eat things that most folks won't want to touch. Raw liver, coon, or bobcat is all table fare in his eyes. Coyotes go to his dogs, and it took them about three days with no dog food to get around to eating them.
So, I guess if I was REALLY hungry, and it was a matter of life or death, then I'd TRY to eat one. Considering how tough they can be to hunt though, and how many better eating animals there are out there that are easier to kill, I doubt it's going to happen.
It's not something you'll enjoy if you decide to try it. I'm convinced of that.
If you somehow come up with a recipe that makes them somewhat edible, then please do post it. I'll even cook it up, and use my airedales as test pilots for the result. If they;ll willingly eat it, and the smell doesn't run me out of the house (and the wife still lets me back in), then I might try a small bite.
But I'm not holding my breath.
Daryl
Daryl, I feed my dogs most anything but I don't wish to feed them 'yote. Just to close to cannibalism and I think there has been enough study to suggest there could be health implications of this practice...:barf:
Just not my thing. Yotes can feed on yotes all they wish. I would like to have a nice hide tanned for the wall...
Brent
Just not my thing. Yotes can feed on yotes all they wish. I would like to have a nice hide tanned for the wall...
Brent
Daryl, your post was highly informative and more than slightly entertaining. Thank you--seriously!
I've eaten, at least once, all the critters in the actual links I posted--plus armadillo (fairly high ick factor; a notch or two south of possum on the culinary appeal scale IMHO) and dog (a few times, overseas. I refrain from doing so in the States, due not only to the inevitably horrified reactions but because, like most Westerners, I really do see dogs much more as workmates or pets than as livestock.)
I've never eaten coyote; in fact, every coyote I've seen so far has been either (a) road kill or (b) running away. I'm not eager to eat one, and as long as they stay away from my pets and livestock I might not even go out of my way to shoot one (although some of them do seem to have nice pelts, which is one possible motive).
I know of at least one dog recipe on the Web. Maybe someone could use it by just substituting "coyote" for "dog", but whether that would do anything to render the coyote edible is another question. Thus, I'm not much inclined to post the link unless someone really wants to check it out.
That's gotta be the money quote, right there. :barf:
From the sound of it, you might want to ... while the 'yote was cooking.
I've eaten, at least once, all the critters in the actual links I posted--plus armadillo (fairly high ick factor; a notch or two south of possum on the culinary appeal scale IMHO) and dog (a few times, overseas. I refrain from doing so in the States, due not only to the inevitably horrified reactions but because, like most Westerners, I really do see dogs much more as workmates or pets than as livestock.)
I've never eaten coyote; in fact, every coyote I've seen so far has been either (a) road kill or (b) running away. I'm not eager to eat one, and as long as they stay away from my pets and livestock I might not even go out of my way to shoot one (although some of them do seem to have nice pelts, which is one possible motive).
I know of at least one dog recipe on the Web. Maybe someone could use it by just substituting "coyote" for "dog", but whether that would do anything to render the coyote edible is another question. Thus, I'm not much inclined to post the link unless someone really wants to check it out.
That's gotta be the money quote, right there. :barf:
From the sound of it, you might want to ... while the 'yote was cooking.
nra_guns_winner
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I eat some, I use some for bait for other varmints, and I know a not so well off man who skins out any road kill he comes across, so last but not least I through a few his way, he needs the money more than I. No way I would ever skin out a skunk. Yea and some just lay around and stink and rot.
fisherman66
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NRA; we live inside a 1/4 mile of a fairly large lake. I passed a road killed beaver on the interstate a couple weeks ago that appeared to be in good condition. For a fleeting second I considered pulling off and dodging traffic to get that beaver carcass. That moment passed. I'm not sure what the Parks and Wildlife office would have made of road killed fur bearers. I don't really want to find out.
A varmint is a pest species.2002gti said:
Other pest species include:
Mice
Rats
Cockroaches
When was the last time you looked at an "occupied" rat trap and mused: "Ok, now where's my recipe book for small rodents?"
There are different rules for killing pests/varmints than the rules used for hunting game animals.
rem870hunter
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woodchucks (groundhogs) bury or toss them in a hole from where i guess they came from. coyote and or fox. i may try to skin and give the pelts to someone who wants them. i have no clue what to do with them.
JackL,
You're welcome. Sometimes the true stuff is the funniest. I won't mention any names, simply because the above mentioned friend is pretty well known on the 'net, but my brother told me of an incident that happened while hunting with the same guy.
One of them shot a mule deer, and while they were field dressing it, this guy was eating the liver.
I've eaten some things that others would frown on. Menudo, tripe de leche, rattle snake, and I'm sure I've eaten gato a time or two in Mexico, but I'm not going to eat coyote. I've skinned way to many, and while my dogs love to play with the live kind, they don't want to eat the meat from them.
and if it isn't good enough for the dogs, I'm not interested.
Coyotes do have a purdy hide, though.
Brent,
You're probably right, and that's one more reason to not feed coyotes to my dogs...not that they'd eat them, because I won't force it on them. The only thing I've seen that would happily eat coyote is a buzzard, and if you put a sewer rat next to the coyote I'm betting the rat would get eaten first.
You're welcome. Sometimes the true stuff is the funniest. I won't mention any names, simply because the above mentioned friend is pretty well known on the 'net, but my brother told me of an incident that happened while hunting with the same guy.
One of them shot a mule deer, and while they were field dressing it, this guy was eating the liver.
I've eaten some things that others would frown on. Menudo, tripe de leche, rattle snake, and I'm sure I've eaten gato a time or two in Mexico, but I'm not going to eat coyote. I've skinned way to many, and while my dogs love to play with the live kind, they don't want to eat the meat from them.
and if it isn't good enough for the dogs, I'm not interested.
Coyotes do have a purdy hide, though.
Brent,
You're probably right, and that's one more reason to not feed coyotes to my dogs...not that they'd eat them, because I won't force it on them. The only thing I've seen that would happily eat coyote is a buzzard, and if you put a sewer rat next to the coyote I'm betting the rat would get eaten first.