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Location: Nordeast Minneapolis | I'm not a fan of squirrel or woodcock. Growing up we'd eat squirrel once in awhile, and it was just tough as heck. And woodcock tastes like worms.
But I feel like less of a hillbilly knowing there are others out there that have eaten squirrel and woodcock and don't find it strange...
I have also eaten roadkill. If my dad found it, and it was edible and still warm, it generally went into his game vest. 
Crawfish, though.... The lake we'd spend a week at in the summers growing up has/had a pretty good crawfish population. When I was little, my cousins and I bought an old minnow trap from a guy that lived near by for a couple dollars. Then we would take some of the guts/carcasses from the fish cleaning shack, and put it in the trap. In a day or so we'd row out to where we'd leave the trap, and voila! Crawfish boil. Delicious little buggers!
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Location: SE Wisconsin | sixdeucers - 1/24/2012 5:31 PM Grass - 1/24/2012 12:04 PM Please post a recipe for deer heart, pickled or otherwise in the recipe section. Thanks, Grass I too would like to know a recipe for pickled deer heart if someone doesnt mind sharing. I guess I would also like to know where the recipe section is. Check it out - a lot of good wild game recipes: http://whitetail.outdoorsfirst.com/board/forums/forum-view.asp?fid=7 |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Pointerpride102 - 1/24/2012 6:24 PM Tie a chicken drumsticks on a string and catch more crayfish than you know what to do with. I prefer snorkling for them though. Eaten pretty much everything in this thread and like the vast majority of it. Add to the list sandhill crane, harper, ducks foot, snails, lake trout liver and eggs, bone marrow....I'm sure there is a ton I'm forgetting. I would trade it all for more sandhill crane. I hear Sandhill breasts are like steaks and cook the same way. Any truth to that? Real red meat that grills up like a steak? |
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| Last year my brother was carp shooting on Petenwell. The guy with him gutted a carp, took out the eggs, washed them in the river, and ate them raw on the spot. My brother could barely hold down his own dinner while watching him. The guy who ate them is also a direct descendant of the Hatfields of the Hatfields vs McCoys feud. |
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| Bright green midges. It happened when we waited too long to setting up camp floating Ozark rivers. Occassionally at dusk the river would explode with a hatch of these tiny bright green moths. Worst time and spot is when we're running late cooking and eating dinner. So, sometimes the whole plates of food were totally covered with bright green bugs. No one said anything, though; no reason to complain or point out the obvious. We just ate'em right along with the food. No choice. |
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Location: Minnetonka | Technically, the strangest thing I've ever eaten in an outdoor adventure would be a Johnsonville. I mean, what's IN those things anyway?
+1 on the Rusties. Delicious. If every Chicagoan that's ever fished Vermilion trapped rusty crayfish during their stay, there would be cabbage growing on Moose Island. 
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Location: The desert | Sam Ubl - 1/25/2012 2:24 PM
Pointerpride102 - 1/24/2012 6:24 PM Tie a chicken drumsticks on a string and catch more crayfish than you know what to do with. I prefer snorkling for them though. Eaten pretty much everything in this thread and like the vast majority of it. Add to the list sandhill crane, harper, ducks foot, snails, lake trout liver and eggs, bone marrow....I'm sure there is a ton I'm forgetting. I would trade it all for more sandhill crane. I hear Sandhill breasts are like steaks and cook the same way. Any truth to that? Real red meat that grills up like a steak?
Yep. Imagine the best steak you have ever eaten, in your whole life. Now imagine one better. That is sandhill crane. It is outstanding. |
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| Moltisanti - 1/25/2012 1:43 AM
This isn't really wild game, but in my first job out of college I worked in Burnsville Mall. There was a pet shop there, and we used to fight Beta fish just to kill time and we'd bet on the results. Well, I got this huge one and dared anyone to find a fish that could fight this guy. I ended up betting a co-worker that I'd eat the Beta alive if his fish could beat it.
My Beta lost...it was like the Rex Ryan of Beta's. All puffed up and then wussed out when the action came. So I swallowed it down with a glass of water. The minute it hit stomach acid the thing went ballistic. I could still feel it flopping in my belly a full 3 minutes after I ate it. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone. Plus, I had the #*#*s so bad from the chemicals in the tank the next day you would have thought I spent a week in Tijuana.
I wonder if that's legal? Like Dog and Cock fighting ... |
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Location: Elgin, IL | SPAM
Only The Lord knows what's really in there.
Sandhill crane is truly the best....and you can hunt them like geese in Sasketchawan. |
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