What a woman!
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Sounds good!
If I could remember how to clean a squiril I probly would hunt them here. I got thousands of them running around my place. And they are getting good and fat as I feed them about 2 times a week.0 -
NICE!! 0 -
I think I love her.[;)] 0 -
ewww... i dunno if id eat squirrel... 0 -
quote:Originally posted by ScharfSchutze
ewww... i dunno if id eat squirrel...
I've eaten it and it is quite good. I just don't know how to clean em to eat em.0 -
Sharp knife, make a cut just over the vent, carefully cut through the tailbone while pulling the skin, work your fingers around the legs a bit to loosen the skin, then pull the skin by the tail enough to get a good handle on it and the skin will peel right off, clip the feet and head off (some folks leave the head on), at this point the squirrel body should be intact, carefully slit the belly open, not cutting too deep into the organs, grab hold of the guts and pull them out, saving the heart and liver if wanted and voila. Young squirrels are much easier to skin and much more tender. My mother used to take the old ones and cut them up for dumpling stew. These were gray squirrels. They are actually quite tasty. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by woodshermit
Sharp knife, make a cut just over the vent, carefully cut through the tailbone while pulling the skin, work your fingers around the legs a bit to loosen the skin, then pull the skin by the tail enough to get a good handle on it and the skin will peel right off, clip the feet and head off (some folks leave the head on), at this point the squirrel body should be intact, carefully slit the belly open, not cutting too deep into the organs, grab hold of the guts and pull them out, saving the heart and liver if wanted and voila. Young squirrels are much easier to skin and much more tender. My mother used to take the old ones and cut them up for dumpling stew. These were gray squirrels. They are actually quite tasty.
Thanks I'll give it a shot.0 -
First time I went squirrel hunting I got into a bunch of them, cleaned them up and give them to the wife to cook. Next day she served them for dinner ...tasted like a hand full of rubber bands! Never when back ...and the wife of the time is now an EX, and the new wife won't eat anything you can't buy at a store. So the squirrels are safe from me! ...Probably why they have taken up residence in my back yard and emptying my wife's bird feeder ever day! 0 -
My good friend Jeff makes squirrel gravy with home made noodles and taters.[:p]
It's friggin amazing and my favorite dish that he makes. Man can he ever skin a squirrel fast with a knife and a pair of locking plyers! Peels em like a nanna![^][:0][:D]0 -
woodshermit got the cleaning down.I do the same thing but after I carefully cut through the tailbone and a tiny bit extra on both sides of it to help not tear the meat I stand on the tail as close to the body as I can and pull up on the hind legs until the skin is over the squirrels head,holding it with one hand I take a pliers and grab the skin still on the stomach and pull that up to the rear feet then with a wire cutter I take off the feet and last I cut off the head.Can do it without any hair on the body and all in under a minute.I read the posts after the video,what a bunch of_______?I can't think of a term for those entities[xx(].Squirrel is my favorite,especially from a grove with walnut trees in it. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by gbeggrow
My good friend Jeff makes squirrel gravy with home made noodles and taters.[:p]
It's friggin amazing and my favorite dish that he makes. Man can he ever skin a squirrel fast with a knife and a pair of locking plyers! Peels em like a nanna![^][:0][:D]
Yep. When my cousin was in Home-ec and he had to cook something for the class, They didnt care what, He made some deer, squirrel gravy, and squirrel..
Boy if they didnt freak out0 -
After the video is done, scroll down and read some of the comments- you'll see why hunting is becoming endangered[:(] 0 -
Squirrels stink. 0 -
sothere is right about using the foot for leverage. You just have to be careful not to rip the skin or tear the body. No hair should get on the animal if done correctly. In my experience, a squirrel is much easier to skin than a rabbit and doesn't smell as bad, either. There were a couple of old timers around who would bring them by sometimes for me to skin and give me a quarter apiece. This was in the 50's. I also used to go up to the local store and skin them for folks. It just takes a little practice. The video shows a fox squirrel, I believe. Head shots with a 22 are preferable to a shotgun for obvious reasons. A shot up squirrel is much harder to skin. Folks who turn their nose up at eating this kind of natural food should not think about how most of the meat that we consume is raised and processed. This thread brings back a lot of childhood memories. Only red squirrels where I am now, and, they are only good for raven bait. I'm surrounded by hundreds of acres of forest and I probably kill a couple a month that raid the bird feeders and birdhouses. The ravens seem to know that a couple of shots mean dinner and will usually show up within an hour or so to pick up the carcass off the stump where I leave it. There is no limit or closed season on red squirrels in Maine. 0 -
Gosh woods,I did'nt know there was any other kind of squirrel,thats all we have in NW Iowa.What other kind is native to your country?I quarter them,dip in egg and seasoned crumbs,brown them in GOOD lard (not the the stuff that smells like boar when you heat it) then into the oven@350 ,covered for an hour give or take.When the meat is falling off the bone your good.I also just brown them in lard plain,put in an oven pan and sprinkle lipton onion soup mix on them and cook till the meat is fallin off the bone.Used to make squirrel when I was OTR trucking in one of those 12 volt lunch box cookers.When you started to smell it cooking add a 1/2 hour and find a place to chow down[:)]Do pretty much the same thing with snappin' turtles[:p][:p] 0 -
I read those comments too! Sad.
Squirrel gravy an biscuits....mmmmmmm
We always soaked them in salt water overnight.
I agree with the .22 comments about tearing them up. Less chance of one coming back to life and eating you up while its in the pouch or on the pin... or whatever you use too. [:0]
Wonder if using steel shot would make getting rid of the shot pellets by using a magnet to find them any easier?
First time I ever broke a tooth was on shot in a squirrel. [:(]
Fortuneatly it was a baby tooth. [:D]
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There is a program called "Divas in the Outdoors" that shows up on the Men's Outdoors and Recreation channel. It is channel 218 on my Dish Network guide. The old girl that produces the show lives around here somewhere close, because I have run onto her at the post office. I watched the show a time or two. 0 -
I've been tempted to try cooking red squirrel a couple of times, but, there is very little meat on those critters. No doubt during the Depression, they were consumed, and I'm sure somebody somewhere eats them now when times get hard. They are incredibly annoying with their arrogant chatter. There is a season on grays in Maine, but, whenever I've mentioned eating squirrel, Mainers, look at me like I was talking about sewer rats. Of course, these are the folks who think ferns are a delicacy.
Fox squirrels are bigger than grays and often have interesting color phases, including black. They tend to inhabit more mountainous areas and I used to see them in WV.0
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