Raccoon hunt success

Grandma used to cook coon , groundhog and black squirrels . Her coon tasted and smelled like you were trying to eat a pussy that hadn't been washed for two weeks but it was Grandma so i pretty much had to eat it . For the groundhog a fella pretty much needed seven rows of teeth . It would have been easier to eat a hockey puck . Now the black squirrels , they were good . She once offered to cook us a beaver but since i already ate a coon i figured they were pretty much the same so i passed . Grandpa had a few chickens and come a time there was one less every day . One day he spotted an owl swooping in . The next day Grandpa sat by the woodshed with his double barrel scattergun and when the owl came back Grandpa dropped it right out of the sky . That night we had owl for supper . Grandpa seemed to like it but i really didn't give a hoot .
 
the spank said:
Mojo outdoors did a show on winter coon hunting. Did the same as you, found den trees and used an ecaller. They had great success but they used the raccoon fight sound on their foxpro ecaller. What a sight to see coons come down that tree as fast as they could and run right up to the ecaller looking to join the fight. Makes me wish we had a good coon population here, kind of?! Congrats, that looks like fun!!
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Here in southern Ontario there are so many coons its hard not to see them. In Some urban areas they have learned what day is garbage day and they make their rounds looking for dinner.
 
Butcherbill said:
Anyone here try eating raccoon? Not the dirty city dwelling ones, I mean the ones living in the country that look like they don't just survive on garbage lol. I was looking through a wild game cookbook I have and there are multiple raccoon, squirrel and possum recipes. The raccoon burgers and raccoon sloppy joe recipes have me interested in trying them out.
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I've never been that hungry, and never will be I hope!
 
I have a very old recipe book that has some wild game recipes in it and raccoon is in there as well. I think I'd have to be really really hungry to resort to trying one. Ive tried beaver a few times and it too is not for everyone.
 
Haha, thanks for the input. My old man was a chef and had a sense of adventure when it came to trying new things, I guess it transfered over to me somewhat. I remember having groundhog and beaver on the menu as a kid, both were good tasting table fare. I remember my dad saying that you wanted to eat groundhog in the summer or early fall as they were eating lots of fresh greens and were not either waking up from winter sleep or fattening up for the coming winter.

Will have to keep my eyes open for raccoon, I know there's a few around but I haven't seen any on the property or down the way where I get firewood.
 
atr said:
Grandma used to cook coon , groundhog and black squirrels . Her coon tasted and smelled like you were trying to eat a pussy that hadn't been washed for two weeks but it was Grandma so i pretty much had to eat it . For the groundhog a fella pretty much needed seven rows of teeth . It would have been easier to eat a hockey puck . Now the black squirrels , they were good . She once offered to cook us a beaver but since i already ate a coon i figured they were pretty much the same so i passed . Grandpa had a few chickens and come a time there was one less every day . One day he spotted an owl swooping in . The next day Grandpa sat by the woodshed with his double barrel scattergun and when the owl came back Grandpa dropped it right out of the sky . That night we had owl for supper . Grandpa seemed to like it but i really didn't give a hoot .
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That was very informative, always wonder what some animals tasted like. Thanks
 
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