Six more this morning

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what do you do with those things after they're dead? food? fur? just wondering what the point is, target practice/varmint control?
 
For those who asked, here's what you do -- skin and gut them. Then soak the carcasses in a pot of salty water. When the blood has soaked out, I drain them and cut them up.

I cook in a slow cooker for about 4 hours (an old bull squirrel can be TOUGH!) then brown then in a Teflon skillet with a teaspoon or so of olive oil. The brown pieces are then drenched -- dropped into a plastic bag containing flour and various spices. The drenched (flour-coated) pieces go back into the skillet and are cooked until golden brown.

You haven't lived until you've eaten squirrel cooked this way.
 
I remember,
Tree squirrels in Missouri, head shot (or grandma got upset), cleaned, in a bucket of salt water by 9am. Drained at 10 am, dipped in buttermilk, shaken in seasoned flour, fried in LARD until brown. Frying pan scraped and then a rue made of fat, burnt bits and seasoned flour. Whiskey added from a quart jar (?) along with some coffee. Biggest pan taken out (turkey roaster size), squirrels laid in and covered with liquid and pan lid. Low heat in my grandmothers wood stove till about 4pm. Squirrels fished out around 5pm. Liquid in pan thickened with heavy cream from just milked cows, then squirrels back in till 5:30. Fresh bake bread, coffee with thick cream, salad from garden, thin sliced cucumbers and onions under vinegar and ice water. No one ever had room for desert. 1952 on grandpas farm.

Yeah you can eat squirrels,

blindhari
 
I'm jealous, never eaten squirrel. Season opens the same day as bow hunting. I've always been tempted to carry a field point arrow in my quiver but was always afraid of scaring any ninja deer in the area, losing an expensive arrow, or scaring a squirrel trying to swap arrows.
 
Damn. I wish we had squirrel around here, but all we have are chipmunk sized tree rats masquerading as squirrel.
Still, get fifteen or twenty together and you'd have a good meal.
 
Grey squirrels have a lighter sweeter meat while the fox squirrel has a beefier venison like taste and texture. I love them both fried like chicken and make gravy with the pan oil and leftover crispies. Both can be enedibly tough if not either parboiled, slow cooked, or an extended baking unless it is a young animal.

I never realized it was weird to eat them until I was "real world" educated.
 
I seem to have an abundance of chipmunks lately, anybody eat them? It's really tempting to throw some bird seed out there and get some 15yard archery practice.
 
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