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I ate fox a couple of times and would rate it as good. A young raccoon slow baked in the oven comes out like the dark meat on a turkey. Raven isn't bad. Cormorant is quite good. Beaver and muskrat is great.

Meant to eat yote sometime but with the smell and me usually having a freezer full of moose, elk and deer - I don't feel the need to experiment. Wolf? By the Christ -- the absolute worst smelling animal in the world. Makes a skunk seem refreshing. I'd eat a human before I'd eat a wolf.

As for the animals that eat meat debate, I fed my pigs all the gamebird carcasses we got this year (a few hundred). Best pork we've had so far in 4 years of pasturing pigs. The extra protein supplement to the grain seemed to speed growth and improve flavour. BTW even deer have been documented eating birds and small mammals when they can get them. Chickens? Big meat eaters.
 
DRA said:
I want that hat!!
Anyone know where to get one, or can point me to instructions on a make-it-yourself?
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I've seen 'em a bit cheaper elsewhere, but there's a fella who regularly has some for sale here on the EE... I'll try to find you the link.

I can easily get pelts, so one of these days I'd like to figure out how to make those hats for myself!
 
My rule is don't eat anything that eats meat I guess a pig and I have eaten bear, but not since I found women's sanitary products in their stomach.Maybe I have more money now then when we ate groundhog, raccoon, porcupine, snapping turtle, black water snake, a seagull, while snowed in on a fly in moose hunt, and my chum tried a pleated woodpecker. All depends how hungry you are moose calf filet with mushrooms and a good chalet work!
 
I applaud you for even wanting to try eating coyotes.

It definitely isn't for me. They few that i have shot had smelled like they just crawled out of the sewer which made me not even want to touch them.

My old man used to say... Waste not, want not. But i think in this case he would probably waste.

Give it a try i guess? Worse case scenario, it sucks and you'll have the long lasting memory of trying it. Best case, you can't get enough of it.

Good luck!!
 
I can honestly write that I've eaten coyote....once. It was my second coyote, and I was new to hunting with a strong desire to see nothing go to waste. I roasted up a rear flank with lots of BBQ sauce and even some bacon. It was the most rancid tasting thing I have ever choked back. Now 10+ full years later, just thinking about it evokes a strong gag reflex!

So now, I'll skin that lovely hide off the coyote and leave the rest. The carcass is picked clean by birds and other scavengers within days, so in my eyes it does not really go to waste.

Bear on the other hand....mmmm...bearburgers!!

Cheers, and good luck! If you do wind up trying it you will possess an experience where very few others have trodden...:)

Brobee
 
Brobee said:
Bear on the other hand....mmmm...bearburgers!!
Brobee
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I'm with you on that one! Bear is really a lovely meat to work with on the bbq, as it's just about impossible to over-cook it. Not sure what it is about bear meat, but it retains its juicy tenderness well past the point at which deer meat would be overdone shoe leather.

Another predator I can highly recommend for the table is cougar, which is surprisingly delicate in both texture and flavour profile.

But as for all this talk of coyotes and foxes... Sorry, I still can't get past the olafactory sufferings of simply skinning the damn things. To put one of those on a dinner plate takes a braver palate than mine!
 
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