Favorite game meat..

[PourMyOwn]

14 hours ago, gimruis said:

I’m seriously impressed by anyone who regularly bags grouse.  I have the hardest time bagging those things with any consistency. I can usually flush enough, but most of the time I don’t even see them, much less get off a reasonable shot. I’m pretty good at putting rooster pheasants in my bag come November, but grouse are significantly tougher. I feel like a well trained pointer would a valuable asset in the grouse woods. It would allow you to get into a good shooting position before the bird flushed.

A pointer would help you, my Springer doesn't give much advance notice!

[TOXIC]

I’ll tell you one I will never eat again…..Canadian Goose.  I have tried it every way imaginable and the best I ever got it to taste was equivalent to an old shoe after walking through a pig pen. 

[gimruis]

52 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

I’ll tell you one I will never eat again…..Canadian Goose.  I have tried it every way imaginable and the best I ever got it to taste was equivalent to an old shoe after walking through a pig pen. 

X2 they aren’t edible. Better used as pothole filler.

1 hour ago, PourMyOwn said:

A pointer would help you, my Springer doesn't give much advance notice!

Neither does my Labrador.

[SWVABass]

Oryx or also knows as gemsbok. African antelope they can be found on public land hunts in NM or high fence ranches in TX. Had friends share meat from their adventures when I still lived in NM. Blows elk and antelope outta the water. 

[clayton86]

Don’t hunt much for game meat anymore. I duck hunt heavily but divers which I turn into dog treat jerky. My one dog won’t touch it and don’t blame her haha the other will eat anything. 
 

I keep saying I’m gonna get back into deer hunting especially lately with meat getting expensive and kinda hard to find the selection isn’t what it used to be. I’ve got land I’ll always be able to hunt that’s “family” land my best friend has a farm I can show up in unannounced around dinner time and they will urge me to stay for dinner and make me a plate so I’ve got their farm to hunt. I just get so incredibly bored deer hunting so I haven’t in almost 7 years now. 
 

used to pheasant hunt in HS my buddy’s dad used to raise them and release them we’d go out and hunt them. Could always tell the wild ones from released between the tails being considerably longer and they would flap twice and go distance of the field with ease. Released ones would flush and flap wings like crazy and only go a short distance to give you another shot. I remember my mom used to make chicken cacciatore but with pheasant so I guess that would just make it pheasant cacciatore and it was delicious. 
 

done squirrels but nothing sticks out about being tasty probably the way I made them as a kid(14). 
 

now frog legs if want to consider them those were delicious. 

[gimruis]

2 hours ago, clayton86 said:

I just get so incredibly bored deer hunting

 

2 hours ago, clayton86 said:

Released ones would flush and flap wings like crazy and only go a short distance to give you another shot

Both true statements. Deer hunting (or big game hunting in general) can get extremely boring for hours or even days on end. It’s not for the mentally weak.

 

Pen raised pheasants are like “hunting” chickens lol. They works really well for dog training purposes but it’s definitely not anything to brag about. There is zero urgency to try and escape or survive like there is with wild pheasants.

[Jar11591]

Love venison, prepared any kind of way. Tried rabbit years ago, enjoyed it but it was so long ago I don’t remember what it was like. Didn’t care for the wild turkey I tried. 

[scaleface]

 We had beagles growing up and grandpa had bassets . Not the cute little bassets that you see today . Ones about twice as large . We wore the rabbits out with those hounds . Then my best friend had a pointer . We didnt bird hunt so that was a fun  dog to hunt with. It would point the rabbit , then one of us kick it out and the other one shoot it . I havent had rabbit  in many years . Fried rabbit stewed in a crock pot with gravy is da bomb .

[N Florida Mike]

Venison, hog, squirrels , froglegs, gator, from around here.

Also had buffalo, antelope , and even kangaroo ( it was tough).

I made a funny mistake my first day at my newest job. I was telling someone in the office I loved to fish and eat fish, then said it was about time for squirrel season. One of the girls had been very smiley and friendly up to that point.

She said coldly “ You SHOOT  SQUIRRELS” ? Couldn’t back out of that one.

Turns out she has a pet squirrel named” Nibbles” ?

[Skunkmaster-k]

Deer heart is my favorite. 

[TnRiver46]

20 hours ago, TOXIC said:

I’ll tell you one I will never eat again…..Canadian Goose.  I have tried it every way imaginable and the best I ever got it to taste was equivalent to an old shoe after walking through a pig pen. 

You gotta try goose pastrami 

[Deephaven]

I like it all....but sadly we can't harvest like you do with fishing.  Amusing to me that most hunters want a deer with a big rack.  I want a baby in comparison.  There is a reason most steers are harvested just after they become full grown and not when they are 20 years old...

 

[TnRiver46]

27 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

I like it all....but sadly we can't harvest like you do with fishing.  Amusing to me that most hunters want a deer with a big rack.  I want a baby in comparison.  There is a reason most steers are harvested just after they become full grown and not when they are 20 years old...

 

Bigger buck? Bigger backstrap. I don’t hunt but I’ve eaten a lot of deer and elk and the monster bucks are delicious 

does aren’t always legal for take in every county/unit either, there was a time not so long ago when killing a doe was frowned upon 

[flatcreek]

Elk ,deer, rabbit,quail,squirrel,wild boar,turkey,duck.

i’ll pass On possum and pigeon 

[gimruis]

48 minutes ago, Deephaven said:

Amusing to me that most hunters want a deer with a big rack.  I want a baby in comparison. 

I wouldn't necessarily say that.  There is a certain percentage of hunters out there that are straight up meat hunters and there is another portion that are trophy hunters.  I know of people in both groups.  I personally prefer to harvest a small corn fed doe with an anterless management tag and then save my standard tag for Mr Big.

 

What peeves me off is average Joe who shoots the first spike or fork buck they see every season and then complains that there aren't any big bucks around.  Its no different than harvesting 10 inch crappies and then complaining there aren't any 12 inchers anymore.

26 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Bigger buck? Bigger backstrap. I don’t hunt but I’ve eaten a lot of deer and elk and the monster bucks are delicious 

The first half of that is accurate.  Your opinion on this matter is a moot point because you are the only person who actually eats a goose LOL

[TnRiver46]

17 minutes ago, flatcreek said:

Elk ,deer, rabbit,quail,squirrel,wild boar,turkey,duck.

i’ll pass On possum and pigeon 

Pigeon is pretty good, possum not so much haha

[MN Fisher]

Just now, TnRiver46 said:

Pigeon is pretty good, possum not so much haha

Pigeon - also known as Squab....if you ever ate Squab at a restaurant - you ate domestic pigeon.

 

I've had it, and dove....not bad.

[TnRiver46]

36 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Pigeon - also known as Squab....if you ever ate Squab at a restaurant - you ate domestic pigeon.

 

I've had it, and dove....not bad.

Pigeon is in the same family as dove, commonly referred to as rock dove. And most importantly, bigger haha

[flatcreek]

I like fried dove. I guess after a few beers I wouldn’t know the difference between dove and pigeon.lol

[BayouSlide]

Pulled pork from wild pig (today's lunch), proscuitto wrapped chukar breasts, grilled strips of sharptail & sage grouse breast, venison tenderloin or backstrap.

[N Florida Mike]

Haha there was a roadside bbq restaurant back in the day that a friend used to always go to. One day he went out back of the building they were in front of and they were back there skinning coons out , lol. for the grill…

Ive never been desperate enough to eat one but one friend would always want me to bring him one back when I went hunting.

I had another friend that would eat anything he could kill , catch, or grow… He ate a woodpecker once and said it was tough…but his mom cooked the best gator tail I ever had.

[Darth-Baiter]

On 10/1/2022 at 2:54 PM, GaryH said:

Ruffed grouse hands down for me..

the best tasting flying meat is Sandhill Crane.  by a mile.  it tastes very much like beef, cooked correctly.  

 

my other favs are wild pig, and Fallow deer.  

[gimruis]

2 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

the best tasting flying meat is Sandhill Crane.  by a mile.  it tastes very much like beef, cooked correctly.  

Good to know.  I wondered about sand hill crane being referred to as "ribeye of the sky."

 

No season on them though.  North Dakota has a season.

[Darth-Baiter]

5 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Good to know.  I wondered about sand hill crane being referred to as "ribeye of the sky."

 

No season on them though.  North Dakota has a season.

i flew into Lubbock TX and hired a guide.  it was way more cost effective than buying a hundred decoys, an enclosed trailer for those decoys, a blind, a dog, land access...etc.  

 

it was $150 a day with a two day minimum!!!  it took 3 of us hustling to get the decoys out and picked up afterwards.  so much fun!!!  Lubbock is kinda weird..:)  a Sandhill crane looks and sounds like lawn furniture falling out of the sky when  you knock one down.  

 

we breasted the birds ourselves to save money.  we did it at a roadside rest stop area.  we pulled out a camp stove and cooked one.  rare.  blew our minds.  so good.   i think "filet mignon" of the sky is a better description.  it is very lean. 

[TnRiver46]

Grilling mallard tonight ?