Rabbit or squirrel that is question
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wankerjake
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Squirrel, hands down. More fun to hunt, but waaaay more fun to eat. I think most respectable rednecks agree that pan fried squirrel with mashed potatoes and gravy is one of the finer culinary achievements in the history of mankind. No contest.
Mango88
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Squirrel and dumplings are hard to beat.
MCgunner
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Either one, really, but rabbit has a tad more meat on it, so that's what I put. They're about the same to eat. I have shot more squirrel than rabbits, but I've shot a truck load of rabbit in my youth. 
I just kinda prefer stalking the woods for squirrel with an accurate .22, preferably handgun now days. I haven't done it in a while, though, cause I'm stuck in Corpus. Piney woods is where I love to squirrel hunt, wicked good up there.
I just kinda prefer stalking the woods for squirrel with an accurate .22, preferably handgun now days. I haven't done it in a while, though, cause I'm stuck in Corpus. Piney woods is where I love to squirrel hunt, wicked good up there. Jalexander
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Like Mango88 said, you can't beat squirrel and dumplings.
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Never tried squirrel, but then I'm still trying to tan my neck. Always enjoyed rabbit though.
Always enjoyed rabbit though.Both good to eat, but squirrel is better...way better. And much more of a challenge to hunt, especially if you stick to rifles and hunt grays. My freezer is full of red squirrels, which are abundant here in NE Kansas. I hunt with a .22 or .17HMR and rarely take a shot that isn't a clear head shot. I don't always hit it, but do most of the time. Love that squirrel gravy.
Are you talking about these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Red_Squirrel
I suppose they would be work in a survial situation but I've never heard of anyone hunting these for food. Most often they are considered pests of the first degree as they love to get into attics and walls of houses. Also they aren't much bigger than a chipmunk.
I suppose they would be work in a survial situation but I've never heard of anyone hunting these for food. Most often they are considered pests of the first degree as they love to get into attics and walls of houses. Also they aren't much bigger than a chipmunk.
MCgunner
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You must be a yankee.
I grew up hunting squirrel and mama cookin' squirrel dumplin's. We lived down in a creek bottom, Jones Creek, between Freeport and Brazoria, Texas. Lots of live oaks and pecans in those woods. I never had one fried until I did it myself because mama said they were too tough. For young squirrel, she was wrong. East Texas has a squirrel season. Most of Texas is year around because not too many hunt 'em outside of east Texas and east Texas is where the best hunting is. Also there are pecan orchards in central Texas and folks like to shoot 'em off the pecans.
Anyway, that link is for Red Squirrel. There are Grey Squirrel, smaller, mostly stick to the river and stream bottoms. Reds are common to more upland areas and are normally the ones in the city, though if the city has a stream, there'll often be Greys there. My grandpa called the Red a "Fox Squirrel" and the Grey a "Cat Squirrel" and I often refer to 'em as fox or cat rather than red or grey. I don't know how common that is, but they fed him through the depression along with a lot of other folks in eastern Texas, coast to Red River.
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I shoot squirrels that come near my home to keep the vermin (aka, squirrels, chipmunks, etc) away.
If they are not dealt with, they will eventually make their nests closer and closer to your house, until the next thing you know there are rodents running through the attic, inside walls, etc.
It is much easier to maintain the low population of red squirrels we have than it is to try to eliminate some huge population that ended up getting out of control.
If they are not dealt with, they will eventually make their nests closer and closer to your house, until the next thing you know there are rodents running through the attic, inside walls, etc.
It is much easier to maintain the low population of red squirrels we have than it is to try to eliminate some huge population that ended up getting out of control.
Texan Scott
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Squirrel is fattier (in a good way- rabbit is so lean) and has better flavor, imo... comes of having a diet rich in nuts, like those ridiculously expensive spanish acorn fed pigs.
T.R.
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Squirrel is milder and tastier, too (in my opinion).
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Yes I am MCgunner and my brother and I grew up anihilating grays for squirrel and dumplings I think the names folks use depends on ones geographic loaction, for instance your refference of calling Fox squirrels red squirrel and so on. However whenever I mention red squirrel I'm talking about the one I posted a link to, not the fox squirrel.
I think the names folks use depends on ones geographic loaction, for instance your refference of calling Fox squirrels red squirrel and so on. However whenever I mention red squirrel I'm talking about the one I posted a link to, not the fox squirrel.Craigman
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I much prefer hunting squirrel for the stalk and wait factor, But Rabbit tastes soooo good..
I guess I'm torn but I voted rabbit because of the food factor
I guess I'm torn but I voted rabbit because of the food factor
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420Stainless
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Love to hunt and eat both, but prefer to eat rabbit the most.
MCgunner
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I was wondering about that after I posted and went back to that link and looked at the picture. Didn't look like the Red Squirrel (fox squirrel) I know, chest was white. Fox squirrel have a reddish chest, thus, "red" squirrel. Cat squirrels aka grey are white chested and smaller. There's all sorts of species of these things. I just know the ones in MY neck of the woods.
Ah, a pic of the "red squirrel" I know. I googled "fox squirrel" to find the picture.
splattergun
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Never had squirrel. But chicken fried rabbit is real tasty.
ZeroJunk
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I like squirrel, but there is a lot more meat on a rabbit.
bearman49709
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When you cook both at the same time in the same pan they taste the same. I grew up hunting both and still get out a couple time a year for squirrel and wish I could still hunt rabbits.
Ditchtiger
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Rabbits are much easier to skin.
25cschaefer
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I say rabbit just because they are bigger and, in my experience, more consistent. If a squirrel east osage oranges (or pine) and you don't take every tiny scrap of fat off of it, it will taste like that. Rabbits, generally, don't eat such pungent fair.
Anyone tasted the giant Gambian pouched rats?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...ian-rats-invading-florida-keys-210522485.html
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...ian-rats-invading-florida-keys-210522485.html
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