Has Anyone Learnt

[MtnCreek]

How you can cut through a squirrel's tailbone just above his butthole without cutting through the hide above his tail. And cut his hide down his hind legs and around his feet. And pull that down. And step on it. And pull him out of his hide??? Just wondering...

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Um....yes...long time now.

 

[6/250/40]

Anyone????

 

[MtnCreek]

What, I wonder, will the evening bring us?

 

[Snipe260]

I’ve done it a lot as a kid! Nothing better than biscuits and fried squirrel for breakfast. With gravy of course!

 

[Alphatreedog]

Gotta use your teeth and alota toungue . Mmmm good squirrel.

 

[MtnCreek]

I’ve done it a lot as a kid! Nothing better than biscuits and fried squirrel for breakfast. With gravy of course!

My granny would get on to me for head shooting them. She said the head's the best part.

 

[Snipe260]

My granny would get on to me for head shooting them. She said the head's the best part.

Never ate the brains but my neighbor did!

 

[Dougie308]

You can do the same thing with hippies.

 

[MtnCreek]

You can do the same thing with hippies.

Just don't eat the brains!

 

[QuickNDirty]

How you can cut through a squirrel's tailbone just above his butthole without cutting through the hide above his tail. And cut his hide down his hind legs and around his feet. And pull that down. And step on it. And pull him out of his hide??? Just wondering...

I've seen it done, but that's too much goddamn work.

I just ring 'em around the belly and rip the hide off. Takes just a few minutes.

 

[TheGerman]

You guys making hats, or condoms or something?

 

[Rthur]

I prefer letting my BIL take care of the tree rats.
I help on the eatin'.

R

 

[Veer_G]

What, I wonder, will the evening bring us?

So, um, just what is it again about this thread that is supposed to involve me?

 

[QuickNDirty]

You guys making hats, or condoms or something?

Making fried squirrel, man.

 

[hlee]

I've seen it done, but that's too much goddamn work.

I just ring 'em around the belly and rip the hide off. Takes just a few minutes.

Yep, and rabbits too...

 

[Strykervet]

My granny would get on to me for head shooting them. She said the head's the best part.

Never ate the brains but my neighbor did!

Word to the wise here, you can easily get prion disease from eating squirrel brains (an epidemic brokeout in KY where it's more popular). Be sure to cook 'em well. You DO NOT want prion disease. It eats YOUR brain basically.

Haven't had squirrel or rabbit in a long while, but one thing I never forgot was DOVE! Dove meat is probably my favorite, period. And I almost never get to have it, especially here. We'd just twist the wings off at the shoulder, high on the shoulder, and stick a finger under the breast bone and just pull the breast out of the bird. Skin and feathers come off, you can prep one for the grill in a minute. Rinse in water, wrap in bacon --mmm, the best.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Word to the wise here, you can easily get prion disease from eating squirrel brains (an epidemic brokeout in KY where it's more popular). Be sure to cook 'em well. You DO NOT want prion disease. It eats YOUR brain basically.

Haven't had squirrel or rabbit in a long while, but one thing I never forgot was DOVE! Dove meat is probably my favorite, period. And I almost never get to have it, especially here. We'd just twist the wings off at the shoulder, high on the shoulder, and stick a finger under the breast bone and just pull the breast out of the bird. Skin and feathers come off, you can prep one for the grill in a minute. Rinse in water, wrap in bacon --mmm, the best.

Cooking well won't prevent prion disease, unless you cook at 900deg F.

I had not heard of squirrels being a source of CJD, the disease caused by prions.

No matter, I'm not eating anything a critter has been thinking with.

 

[MtnCreek]

Word to the wise here, you can easily get prion disease from eating squirrel brains (an epidemic brokeout in KY where it's more popular). Be sure to cook 'em well. You DO NOT want prion disease. It eats YOUR brain basically.

Haven't had squirrel or rabbit in a long while, but one thing I never forgot was DOVE! Dove meat is probably my favorite, period. And I almost never get to have it, especially here. We'd just twist the wings off at the shoulder, high on the shoulder, and stick a finger under the breast bone and just pull the breast out of the bird. Skin and feathers come off, you can prep one for the grill in a minute. Rinse in water, wrap in bacon --mmm, the best.

I remove the meat from the breastbone, add a little cream cheese and slice of jalapeno, fold it up and wrap in bacon. Love some dove.

 

[Rthur]

Word to the wise here, you can easily get prion disease from eating squirrel brains (an epidemic brokeout in KY where it's more popular). Be sure to cook 'em well. You DO NOT want prion disease. It eats YOUR brain basically.

Haven't had squirrel or rabbit in a long while, but one thing I never forgot was DOVE! Dove meat is probably my favorite, period. And I almost never get to have it, especially here. We'd just twist the wings off at the shoulder, high on the shoulder, and stick a finger under the breast bone and just pull the breast out of the bird. Skin and feathers come off, you can prep one for the grill in a minute. Rinse in water, wrap in bacon --mmm, the best.

Poultry shears...
Works on all game birds.
Fillet off each side of the breast.
Wrap in bacon, salt, pepper, garlic salt.
Toss on grill and pull when the bacon is crisp.

R

 

[jungle45]

There aren't any.

Just don't eat the brains!

 

[Blue Sky Country]

Word to the wise here, you can easily get prion disease from eating squirrel brains (an epidemic brokeout in KY where it's more popular). Be sure to cook 'em well. You DO NOT want prion disease. It eats YOUR brain basically.

Excellent point you mentioned there. Prion diseases are not just limited to bovine brain matter. ANY brain matter contains a certain quantity of mis-folded proteins, all of which can lead to serious problems when they find their way into the neuro pathways of anything else that consumes them. That is also one of the reasons why you DO NOT take head shots on any game animal that is going to be eaten. Bullets have a tendency of causing brain matter to expel forcibly in all directions. You don't have to have a visible quantity of grey material to be contaminated. Even traces are dangerous. When I was on my grand-uncle's ranch in Inner Mongolia, I did a number of "free range slaughtering" on domesticated animals. They would be roped and brought into the pen, where a field point arrow would then be shot straight into their head from the neck area behind the ears at contact range. Arrows always used field points or narrow bodkin-type broadheads with two cutting edges and the direction of the shot is always from back to front. And NO firearms are used for this purpose. Done correctly, the animal is killed instantly and painlessly. No chance of brain matter contamination on eaten parts and no stress hormones flooding the system from the traditional abattoir-style death by exsanguination.

By the way, I know this is VERY contrary to what we are talking about here, but anyone who remembers the case of the infamous New York serial killer Arthur Shawcross will know that investigators had been trying to find out whether he really consumed the bodies of his victims or was he just saying this for shock value. There was no "investigating" needed to be done if they just paid closer attention to his behavior and mental state. The answers are all there. If you look at his later taped interviews from 2003 up to his death in 2008, he had uncontrollable muscle, eyelid and throat spasms. His face would literally be twitching throughout the entire program. (Videos are on YouTube) THAT is a main symptom of a prionic disease called KURU, which decimated a lot of the cannibalistic tribes in the Pacific Islands over the years. Kuru is acquired when a person ingests the brain matter of other human beings. This sick fuck did not only consume body parts from his 22 lady victims, he ate their brains as well.

 

[armorpl8chikn]

I think it's time for this scene....

 

[Redmanss]

Grab the head and hind legs? Huh? Does it look something like this?

 

[jb0311]

Word to the wise here, you can easily get prion disease from eating squirrel brains (an epidemic brokeout in KY where it's more popular). Be sure to cook 'em well. You DO NOT want prion disease. It eats YOUR brain basically.

It's still extremely rare to get this from eating squirrel brains, so while I wouldn't say that you can "easily" get prion disease from squirrel brains, it is a possibility that each will have to consider. I lived in western KY in 1997 when 11 people got it, if that is the outbreak you are talking about. It was anecdotal evidence pointing towards the squirrel brains, although compelling. I just feet the brains to our dogs, canines have a natural resistance to prion.

“While prion diseases have been identified in several other types of mammals, they have never been identified in squirrels. Without additional experimental or epidemiological evidence, a link between consumption of squirrel brain and human prion disease is unjustifiably speculative.”
This is from 2018.