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Not sure where I can get that in Colorado though
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OJ, if you can't shoot one or find someone to gift you some elk, the best ()and easiest) place to get elk in Colorado is a restaraunt called the Buckhorn Exchange. It's a pretty cool restaraunt to visit anyway, and they have a very diverse menu chock full of wild game and non-traditional meats (like rattlesnake)
 
Quail, rabbit, pheasant, dove, woodcock, snapping turtle soup, squirrel. Alligator is good as is rattle snake. Had lion once, it wasn't bad. Would like to try elk.
 
Wild Hog is the fruit of the Texas brush.

You can barbeque it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. There's hog kebabs, hog creole, hog gumbo, pan fried, deep fried, stir fried.

There's pineapple hog and lemon hog, coconut hog, pepper hog, hog soup, hog stew, hog salad, hog and potatoes, hog burger, hog sandwich, roast hog, grilled hog, hog chili, hog jerky, hog tamales, hog in green chiles, smoked hog ...that's about it.

Mmm...hogs.
 
I've had rabbit, squirrel, venison, and elk. Of those, the elk was the best. But the best I've had (by far) was mountain lion. Have a brother in Colorado who obtained a permit and shot one. It tastes kind of like pork, but had more flavor.
 
I know that of illegal birds, kerlu is particularly good. My grandpa had a taste fo it. "Shh, boy, don't tell NObody I killed these birds, ya here?" ROFL! Yeah, rattler tastes like, well, fried chicken with funny bones in it. :D

I have had some pretty gamey tasting pork at pig roasts.
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Don't kill anything over 150 lbs and you'll get GOOD pork. Those monster hogzillas that make all the photochop pictures are the ones that ain't worth cleanin'. Also, soak the meat a day or two on ice water in a large cooler to bleed it out, helps a lot. I have let what had to be at least 350 lb boar walk right past my stand and never laid a crosshair on 'em. 1) they taste like crap 2) they're a PITA to skin with that gristle plate and 3) I ain't killin' nothin' I need a 4wd front end loader to haul out. All I got's a dirt bike. I can get a 200 lb hog out, but much bigger and it's not real easy.
 
I'd rather ask what an Inca dove is.......
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'Bout half the size of a mourning dove. Not a lot of meat on a bird that size. They are a funny little bird -- wing beats are at least two to three times the speed of a mourning dove, they dash about in flocks almost like tweety birds, but when they start scooting along at forty miles an hour, you can see that they are doves. They look like baby doves, if you just see one or two. Their tail feathers are shorter. Native to the southwest desert regions of the U.S., do not migrate far, if at all.
 
I'd rather ask what an Inca dove is.......
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It's a small dove-variant that came from Mexico. It's a migratory bird that is protected by the law. Killing one will get you a 250 dollar fine plus a 25 dollar restocking fee. However, I was dove hunting in West Texas on a nice lease last year, and because they were "dove", my dad said "Well sure they're ok to kill, why wouldn't they be? They're dove, and you have a dove license."

Famous last words....

You see, these things fly around in squads of hundreds of little doves (they're about the size of a Mocking bird or large songbird, much smaller than ringnecked doves) and these squadrons of doves are everywhere. They are NOT in short supply, to say the least. So here I am with my Stoger Coach gun, squatting next to a fence on a roade looking out onto a cotton patch with a tough West Texan thicket behind me. I'm bored because on that entire three-day trip I saw probably 12 Dove, and out of those I got 6.

So again, This is my first hunting trip like this and I get restless. I start blasting at them. Skip ahead about thirty minutes, and boy I'm a great shot! A pile of these doves later, I finally see a bigger bird out of the corner of my eye, flying right to me. The sun is behind it, so all I see is black outline.

A truck is coming up on me at this point. I shrug it off. There's a kid in the back, probably hunters coming out who'll be pissed because there are no more good spots.

I make a shot on this black outline of what I thought was a ringnecked dove. I pull the trigger, it falls, I'm proud, and the truck rolls down it's window.

I'm sitting there with a stupid grin on my face, the kid looks confused, and the guy in the truck looks me down and tells me, straight faced, "You know you just shot a hawk, right?"

My reaction?

"You're kidding me.... No? Awww....@)#*$)@#(*$!!!!!"

And then he sees my pile of Inca doves.

"Yep, pretty sure those are illegal too. Better get rid of them now."

YESSIR!

I didn't know the guy, he was just another guy on the lease with all of us. So I began to chunk those doves left and right. Some into the cotton patch, some into the thicket. I crawl over the fence into the thicket, track down the hawk, and made sure to hide it.

I felt two inches tall after that.
 
We've got Aztec dove down here and as far as I know, they're legal. Not sure I've seen the "Inca" dove or is it same species? If so, I've been eatin' 'em. ROFLMAO I don't think so, though. The Aztecs don't fly just with only Aztecs, they are often in flocks of mourning dove typically. They're smaller than a mourning dove, but not a whole lot smaller.
 
Aztecs maybe. All the guys were calling them "inca" doves. I'm not entirely certain some of those guys knew the difference.

And yeah, as far as I know, they are protected. That came from a game wardon, so I'm inclined to believe it.
 
I have to agree with 308win Snapping turtle is great. They dont smell to good when you catch them but they are tasty. I also like quail if it is cooked right, a young wild hog is good and I actually like duck too. I was alittle confused when I hunted duck in a salt water bay and when we ate them they were served with tarter sause cause they had a fishy tase. In the end it wass actually pretty good.
 
Snapping turtle is great.
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Man, I didn't even think about anything from the lake...

My dad and I trapped a few hundred snappers when I was a youngun, and I always considered that eating the meat (I wasn't wild about it) was the price one paid to justify the occasional dinner of turtle liver (DELICIOUS!). I don't eat other kinds of liver, but snapping turtle liver is one of the all-time greatest taste treats of the wild game world.

My favorite eating fish is the lowly bullhead...
 
Grouse, Turkey, Fresh Tenderloins off a young whitetail yummy just need a little butter and a onion nothing better!
 
I had my first Bison last night at Ruby Tuesday's, the bison bacon cheeseburger. They say it's better all-around than beef, it was great.

Bison.....it's what's for dinner ;)
 
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