Squirrel hunting & cooking
- Thread starter olek_Z_bc
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I've never been hungry enough to eat tree rat, but I do get $1.50 per pelt trapping! 
My mother absolutely hates them, plus they raid her bird feeders, so she gives me a $1.00 bounty for every one I trap for her. A lot of my buddies buy pelts from me for fly tying supplies. They're usually not worth bothering with unless someone is looking for fly tying material. Pretty simple to clean/pelt. Only thing is they're lousy as hell. Have to throw the carcass in a plastic bag and dose it with Raid/Black Flag, etc...otherwise you're going to get lots of creepy/crawlies on you! And DON'T let your dog/cat get in contact with fresh squirrel carcass or you'll be sorry! :mrgreen:
My mother absolutely hates them, plus they raid her bird feeders, so she gives me a $1.00 bounty for every one I trap for her. A lot of my buddies buy pelts from me for fly tying supplies. They're usually not worth bothering with unless someone is looking for fly tying material. Pretty simple to clean/pelt. Only thing is they're lousy as hell. Have to throw the carcass in a plastic bag and dose it with Raid/Black Flag, etc...otherwise you're going to get lots of creepy/crawlies on you! And DON'T let your dog/cat get in contact with fresh squirrel carcass or you'll be sorry! :mrgreen:In B.C. at least, the red squirrel is classifed as a fur bearer, and as such belongs to the trapper. I stand to be corrected if there have been changes made to the regulations that I just haven't kept up with, but my understanding is that things are the same as when I had a trapline, and that there is still no such thing as an open season on squirrels here. If you do not have a trapping license, and legal access to a trapline, then you are breaking the law if you take squirrels. I know there are regulations which allow hunters to take some of B.C.'s fur bearers...wolf, coyote, lynx, bobcat...but not squirrels. Lynx meat by the way is quite good...very mild white meat.
icedog said:
Thanks for your concern for our squirelly friends :wink: :lol:
It is clearly stated in Schedules B & C of the synopsis that they are fair game... now anyhow... what happened ??? Aren't all of you "moose nose afficionados" and "deer heart connoisseurs" at least a bit curious as to what the little varmint taste like... :lol:
Someone admit to cooking one in camp, come on....
When i ran a trapline on the west coast i set snare poles for squirrels and got lots,
I saved the hunches and just browned them in the cast iron frying pan, Then poured Campbells mushroom soup over them.
Them Squirrels was good eating on a cold winter night in the cabin :mrgreen: nice change from eating Beaver.
I saved the hunches and just browned them in the cast iron frying pan, Then poured Campbells mushroom soup over them.
Them Squirrels was good eating on a cold winter night in the cabin :mrgreen: nice change from eating Beaver.
Those little buggers, when I am in my tree stand they climb the adjacent tree and tell the whole world I am sitting in my tree stand. I would like to take a bbq in my tree stand and frickisy(sp) a few of those little buggers to show the rest what happens to a loud mouth.
Pretty common consensus that we nuts HATE those ####ing little bastards. I cant tell you how many times one of those loud mouths gave away my stalk.
I did teach one of them a lesson last year as he was barking up a storm on a well exposed branch. My 22/250 savage completely anialated him and we couldnt even find his head. He blew up like a firecracker. We laughed for at least 5 minutes as we just stood there in shock as hair fluffs floated down to earth. :shock:
I cant say that that day was dissapointing.
I did teach one of them a lesson last year as he was barking up a storm on a well exposed branch. My 22/250 savage completely anialated him and we couldnt even find his head. He blew up like a firecracker. We laughed for at least 5 minutes as we just stood there in shock as hair fluffs floated down to earth. :shock:
I cant say that that day was dissapointing.
open-sights
Regular
- Location
- Aldergrove BC
This thread got me thinking, there are a ton of times I have had the little buggers screach for hours at me, barking non stop and making a hunt hell, never had it work out that one alerted me to game either, so I figure I owe myself about 368 squirrels to even the score. Olek, thanks man, and Dosing, thank you too, I am gonna try and tan a few out, why not, good practice I think. Will try to cook a few up as well, can't be as bad as some of the coastal ducks I have had.
I try to avoid eating squirrels shot outta an evergreen,bad tasting experience
Like gargling with Pinesol.But here's a good one that I've recently tried with the last of rabbits in my deep freeze :wink:
Good Luck & Enjoy :!:
Huntsman
http://www.huntingclub.com/document_pfv.asp?dID=8924&pfv=true
Like gargling with Pinesol.But here's a good one that I've recently tried with the last of rabbits in my deep freeze :wink:
Good Luck & Enjoy :!:
Huntsman
http://www.huntingclub.com/document_pfv.asp?dID=8924&pfv=true
Hollow Point
CGN Regular
- Location
- New Brunswick
eating squirrels must be quite popular as every game cookbook has afew recipiecs in them for squirrels. in N.B. they are only covered on a trappers liscense. mostly red squirrels around where I live all the grey squirrels seem to be city dwellers.
At one time Mepps [I think] was willing to trade fishing lures for squirrel tails.
At one time Mepps [I think] was willing to trade fishing lures for squirrel tails.
zedex said:Americans love squirrels. I was inquiring about this a year ago as i thought it was pretty interesting. I even found a (how to clean squirrel guide).
There are many many recipes on the net.
The squirrels around here are NOT grey /fox squirrels so you cant shoot em. :shock: :lol:
I never tried one myself but i would imagine they taste squirrely.
I was out with a relative who shot a couple of our squirrels, skinned them and ate them. He said they weren't bad apparently. Even tried to preserve the skins :lol:
I have always hated the little rodents and couldn't get myself to eat one.
You have to take into account that they even eat frogs in some of the States too :shock: Mind you, they're quite large.
EnfieldMike
CGN Regular
- Location
- Northern NS
Just wondering...can a squirrel really have a haunch?
Dosing I know what you want the pelts for. Its play time in the chamber. You know, You'll be the Brobdignagian and the missus will be the lilliputian, and you can make Gulliver on the "bear" skin rug. :wink:
Dosing I know what you want the pelts for. Its play time in the chamber. You know, You'll be the Brobdignagian and the missus will be the lilliputian, and you can make Gulliver on the "bear" skin rug. :wink:
You are a sick bastard..... I LIKE you! :lol:
Reminds me of 2 times:
Incident #1 : At my friends house in the country, he has his own range behind his workshop where we reload... On this day we were reloading my favorite lil' Varmit Vapourizer .220 Swift
. After perfecting my load I proceeded to try it out on the bench outback. 100 yards out a cat crosses through my scope. Upon seeing this my friend demands that I dispatch the cat because of its fowl behaviour pissing around the house and tearing up his wife's flowers. We never found a piece of the cat bigger than a golf ball. 30 minutes later a quaint old lady walks up the drive and asks us if we've seen her cat...... errr technically No.Incident #2 : I shot a ####-hawk (aka seagull) that kept flying over the marsh where we were walking..... He was only about 30 feet above my head. All that was decernable that feel from the sky was one of his legs. It rained feathers for about 5 minutes. :shock: :lol:
EnfieldMike
CGN Regular
- Location
- Northern NS
Dosing said:
Yes, Yes I have. Its about time that hundred grand came in handy!
Thanks for noticing.
