MCgunner
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I HEARD THAT!
Gots ta be the nastiest animal in the woods. Think I could eat a rat first. Kinda reminds me of Snuffy Smith...
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I HEARD THAT!
Gots ta be the nastiest animal in the woods. Think I could eat a rat first. Kinda reminds me of Snuffy Smith...
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Many trappers use a club to dispatch a critter after it's been caught. Sooooo I really don't see the difference here other than this is free range clubbing vs foot hold clubbing.
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Who gives two ****s what PETA thinks. Are we all forgetting that this is the same organization that was just caught dumping dead animals in dumpsters after they’d killed them at their various NO KILL shelters. The body count is somewhere over 10,000 kitties and puppies euthanised at PETA no kill shelters and then unceremoniously and illegally dumped into various city trash receptacles.
How can any one give any credence to these bastards after that little hypocritical money grubbing stunt?
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Who gives two ****s what PETA thinks. Are we all forgetting that this is the same organization that was just caught dumping dead animals in dumpsters after they’d killed them at their various NO KILL shelters. The body count is somewhere over 10,000 kitties and puppies euthanised at PETA no kill shelters and then unceremoniously and illegally dumped into various city trash receptacles.
How can any one give any credence to these bastards after that little hypocritical money grubbing stunt?
B.D. Turner
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Possum...The other white meat
Sistema1927
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Me thinks that somebody couldn't wait until April 1st...
Grumulkin
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You all will be very happy to know that possums are one of the most resistant mammals to rabies. I have quite a few coons, possums, rabbits, coyotes and skunks around here. If you're hungry, maybe I could mail you some?
swampdog
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As I've said before, how good coon tastes is in direct proportion to how hungry you are. I was extremely hungry the day I ate some. It was pretty good.
You can cure the greasiness by broiling or grilling. You can kill the musky taste with enough barbecue and hot sauce. Smells pretty good when it's cooking, too, unlike muskrat or nutria.
Game animals often take on different flavors, depending on what they've been eating. I wouldn't want to eat a bear I shot at the dump, nor a coon I clubbed in the dumpster. Possums eat garbage and carrion all the time. I wouldn't want to eat one of those, period. Next time you see a dead, swelled up deer, look at his belly. If you see a baseball sized hole in his gut, kick it or hit it with a stick. There's a good chance a possum will come out. I've seen it more than once.
YUM
Selfdfenz
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By golly I remember being cold and hungry while wrapped in the loving arms of higher education but never that cold, or that hungry.
If you have the option to kick her up a notch on the food chain you might consider rabbits as a replacement to your current targets of opportunity. I may sound condesending, and I'm not shooting for that at all, but I guess if I was going to catch some form of infection from dinner I'd take Francisella over rabies every day of the week.
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If you have the option to kick her up a notch on the food chain you might consider rabbits as a replacement to your current targets of opportunity. I may sound condesending, and I'm not shooting for that at all, but I guess if I was going to catch some form of infection from dinner I'd take Francisella over rabies every day of the week.
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webuyhouses
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I was there
Hi everybody, im new to this here website but i had to sign up and defend eric,
I have hunted with this man on many occasions.
I have the hide of the biggest, fattest city raccoon any of you have ever seen, much less beaten with a pipe, hanging on the wall at work.
I have eaten the coon stew, i have eaten the possum fajitas, I have eaten the tame rabbits that the neighbor released into the wild....
I was there.
Hi everybody, im new to this here website but i had to sign up and defend eric,
I have hunted with this man on many occasions.
I have the hide of the biggest, fattest city raccoon any of you have ever seen, much less beaten with a pipe, hanging on the wall at work.
I have eaten the coon stew, i have eaten the possum fajitas, I have eaten the tame rabbits that the neighbor released into the wild....
I was there.
Smokey Joe
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Short collective memory
Hey, guys, check yr history--During the Depression, rabbit, 'coon and 'possum was what kept some families alive. Not to mention armadillo and alligator. I understand that poached deer was mighty tasty, too.
In my locale, one of the Am. Legion posts supports its youth baseball program with a 'coon feed every January. Has been going on for more than 60 yrs. And BOY do they make a delicious roast raccoon! It's fun giving anatomy lessons with the bones, too--little kids are usually fascinated.
Can't speak personally abt 'possum, but, guys, meat is meat. And while I'm too young to have BTDT in the Depression, I certainly have BTDT as an impoverished college student. Roast porcupine over a campfire?? Yum!
Anybody who says "Ooh, I would NEVER eat that!" may not really know what Hard Times are.
Hey, guys, check yr history--During the Depression, rabbit, 'coon and 'possum was what kept some families alive. Not to mention armadillo and alligator. I understand that poached deer was mighty tasty, too.
In my locale, one of the Am. Legion posts supports its youth baseball program with a 'coon feed every January. Has been going on for more than 60 yrs. And BOY do they make a delicious roast raccoon! It's fun giving anatomy lessons with the bones, too--little kids are usually fascinated.
Can't speak personally abt 'possum, but, guys, meat is meat. And while I'm too young to have BTDT in the Depression, I certainly have BTDT as an impoverished college student. Roast porcupine over a campfire?? Yum!
Anybody who says "Ooh, I would NEVER eat that!" may not really know what Hard Times are.
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Omaha-BeenGlockin
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Thoughts of the Gollum(sp?) come to mind. The fat hobbit ruins it--we likes it fresh and raw-----what's taters???
Might want to take up bow hunting with a smaller kids bow so you don't have to get so close to a potentially rabid animal.
Legal or not--you are probabaly doing your town a favor by reducing the feral population.
Didn't a meal ticket come in the package for the dorm room???
Might want to take up bow hunting with a smaller kids bow so you don't have to get so close to a potentially rabid animal.
Legal or not--you are probabaly doing your town a favor by reducing the feral population.
Didn't a meal ticket come in the package for the dorm room???
NailGun
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Yup. My hero.
You may need more than a pipe for this critter though.
RUN AWAY!!
You may need more than a pipe for this critter though.
RUN AWAY!!
webuyhouses
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is that the fake bunny from monty python? *** i thought we were having a serious discussion about hunting strategies, not british (unfunny) comedy.
is that the fake bunny from monty python? *** i thought we were having a serious discussion about hunting strategies, not british (unfunny) comedy.
Just call him the city exterminator, that rids the city of all those mean coons and possums. Do you ever try bbq sauce on them there possums? If you eat their brains it will improve your mental capacity by 25 % according to a study done at Troll University.
mohican
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During a previous job I worked at a stamping/brazing facility in a medium/large city. We had various stamping dies stored at a defunct factory and would occassionaly have to go retrieve them/swap out with other dies.
This factory was also home to the homeless and transients. Retrieving dies from that dark, dungy factory reminded me of the movie Cyborg. We would take the forklift to the factory, take it to the appropriate floor on the freight elevator, and go get our dies. It was typical to see a campfire built on a metal plate on the factory floor, with various rodents being cooked. One of the homeless people asked why we put the dies in an unsecured building. Our reply was if they could move several tons of progressive die without machinery, they were welcome to it.
upon opening a dieset once we found a whole family of possums living in it. Survival in the urban jungle. been there, observed that.
This factory was also home to the homeless and transients. Retrieving dies from that dark, dungy factory reminded me of the movie Cyborg. We would take the forklift to the factory, take it to the appropriate floor on the freight elevator, and go get our dies. It was typical to see a campfire built on a metal plate on the factory floor, with various rodents being cooked. One of the homeless people asked why we put the dies in an unsecured building. Our reply was if they could move several tons of progressive die without machinery, they were welcome to it.
upon opening a dieset once we found a whole family of possums living in it. Survival in the urban jungle. been there, observed that.
carnaby
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somehow this version of the food chain doesn't seem too apealing. Too much like I'm indirectly eating someone else's leftover pizza. When I was a poor college student, I just ate mac and cheese, or raman. At least you're probably getting more protien
webuyhouses
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leftovers
btw it is pretty easy to find good food in the trash.
the best places are small grocery stores, mini-marts, and gas stations.
examples:
100 1-litre bottle cocacola from speedway
1 unopened case 100 tortillas from family dollar
1 unopened case expensive salad dressing from pharmx grocery
50 bags of bagels (sell by date) from hostess outlet
20 gallons 2% milk (tasted fine.. cold outside at the time) from northstar gas
60 lb wrapped saltwater taffy from pharmx grocery
15 trays bob evans breakfast sausage from pharmx grocery
no joke, this all stuff i recovered, and enjoyed
if a homeless person ever told you they need money for food, they are lying.
the only things i dont find in the dumpster are drugs and alcohol.
however: one time i found an unopened mikes hard cranberry lemonade in a bag of cans at the frat house!
btw it is pretty easy to find good food in the trash.
the best places are small grocery stores, mini-marts, and gas stations.
examples:
100 1-litre bottle cocacola from speedway
1 unopened case 100 tortillas from family dollar
1 unopened case expensive salad dressing from pharmx grocery
50 bags of bagels (sell by date) from hostess outlet
20 gallons 2% milk (tasted fine.. cold outside at the time) from northstar gas
60 lb wrapped saltwater taffy from pharmx grocery
15 trays bob evans breakfast sausage from pharmx grocery
no joke, this all stuff i recovered, and enjoyed
if a homeless person ever told you they need money for food, they are lying.
the only things i dont find in the dumpster are drugs and alcohol.
however: one time i found an unopened mikes hard cranberry lemonade in a bag of cans at the frat house!
ambush
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My friend just gave me some last year deer meat from his garage freezer...I can't wait till tommorrow to make some chilli
imprezagm4
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This thread is 100% funny, true or not.
ambush
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webuyhouses - "however: one time i found an unopened mikes hard cranberry lemonade in a bag of cans at the frat house!"
Only one? Too bad, not even enough to get a buzz
Only one? Too bad, not even enough to get a buzz
hossfly
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I'm speechless. Really.
Racktracker
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I have to agree, this thread is laugh out loud funny.
I say what the heck...if these guys want to eat what the find in the trash, alive or dead, more power to them. Its a heck of alot better than starving to death. Even if they are not starving to death, it could be worse, they could be out stealing car stereos.
BTW ...have you guys considered alley cat? I hear its in season.
I say what the heck...if these guys want to eat what the find in the trash, alive or dead, more power to them. Its a heck of alot better than starving to death. Even if they are not starving to death, it could be worse, they could be out stealing car stereos.
BTW ...have you guys considered alley cat? I hear its in season.
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