Guns, Bows, Shooting Sports, and Hunting Catch a squirrel, Help!

[The patriot]

I've never eaten squirrel, but they cost my dad $600 + in wiring repair on his 06 Dakota.

I'd try em just because I hate them so much!

 

[GCroyle]

Patriot,



Would they qualified as Micro-waved with their coats on after eating the voltage outa that Dakota?



If squirrels eat into a hybrid hi voltage wiring, would they be overcooked?

 

[GHarman]

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Does it taste like chicken? :-laf:-laf

Yep, same as "eagle, spotted owl and black footed ferret":-laf. GregH

 

[GHarman]

Greg,



If you was cooking this delicacy, I just might pull up a log to sit on and try it. Gotta be no worse than watching Popeye eat his spinach growing up, look what it did for him!



I see you now on a cable info-mercial, Uncle Greg's Squirrel extract fountain of youth elixar, tonic and hair restorer.

Wellll Pilgrim! It may be the we could jest fix ya a mess to wrap yer tonsils around, Waagh:-laf. No guarentee that you wilst keep yer hair! Most of mine is on my back and face! Waaaggghhh! Oo. :-lafGregH

 

[GHarman]

The problem with eating squirrel is that you will soon be spending your whole fall looking for your nuts. This thread was already headed downhill. :-laf

To late, the Doc. found mine and they was overcooked. Got me in one of them backards coats:-laf. Yep, this is on a REAL Slippery slope! GregH

 

[GCroyle]

Wellll Pilgrim! It may be the we could jest fix ya a mess to wrap yer tonsils around, Waagh:-laf. No guarentee that you wilst keep yer hair! Most of mine is on my back and face! Waaaggghhh! Oo. :-lafGregH

OK Greg, ROADTRIP!!!!



That would be an adventure FER SURE!



Greg, have you been reading on of my all time favorite books, The Long Rifle by Stewart Edward White? YOUR passage sounds just like it came from his book it's full of Waagh's and which way does his stick float? It is the story of Dan Boone's Kentucky Rifle from its gunsmith to Dan winning it unintentionally in a shootin match to its later days in the fur trade in the mountains, I kid you not, from a passage:



"When a beaver is first ketched he strikes for deep water, said Joe. Ef'n yo' kin keep him thar, he'll drownd shore. But ef'n he kin get on the dry bank he'll get away,"



"Wagh! said the mountan man roughly. Go to sleep and git ye a good rest. And don't never cut no more meat across the grain. "



I know, this does not make a lot of sense taken out of context, but it sounds like you helped write part of the Mountan Man section of the book.



Sure would like to shake yer hand Mountain Man, mebe someday.



The book it a great read about a time in our history of exploration and the Mountain Men of the fure trade.



Nuf ramblin.

 

[GHarman]

OK Greg, ROADTRIP!!!!



That would be an adventure FER SURE!



Greg, have you been reading on of my all time favorite books, The Long Rifle by Stewart Edward White? YOUR passage sounds just like it came from his book it's full of Waagh's and which way does his stick float? It is the story of Dan Boone's Kentucky Rifle from its gunsmith to Dan winning it unintentionally in a shootin match to its later days in the fur trade in the mountains, I kid you not, from a passage:



"When a beaver is first ketched he strikes for deep water, said Joe. Ef'n yo' kin keep him thar, he'll drownd shore. But ef'n he kin get on the dry bank he'll get away,"



"Wagh! said the mountan man roughly. Go to sleep and git ye a good rest. And don't never cut no more meat across the grain. "



I know, this does not make a lot of sense taken out of context, but it sounds like you helped write part of the Mountan Man section of the book.



Sure would like to shake yer hand Mountain Man, mebe someday.



The book it a great read about a time in our history of exploration and the Mountain Men of the fure trade.



Nuf ramblin.

Gary, Also try the original work by James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans and the book that was the foundation for the movie, Jeremiah Johnson; "Liver Eatin Johnson". There are many stories about Hugh Glass and many other Mountain Men that 'll also tickle yer innards. However, I do gravitate to the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars in my history. Cause it is the part of the Country where I grew up. The Zanes, the roots of Wheeling, West Virginia, The Iroquois Nation, Jamestown, Virginia(my paternal ancestor landed there in 1630), crossing of the mountains(Appalacians). Its all good, Brother! Them Boys(and Girls) was tougher than a 12 valve Cummins! Waagghhh! Yer welcome ta come ta visit any old time and share grub, fire and shelter, such as it is! Jes bring yer own squaw, WagggghhhhhhhOo! GregH

 

[HHhuntitall]

----(sigh)---- Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints... .

 

[GHarman]

----(sigh)---- Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints... .

Its ALL GOOD!:-lafOo. . GregH

 

[GCroyle]

Gary, Also try the original work by James Fenimore Cooper, Last of the Mohicans and the book that was the foundation for the movie, Jeremiah Johnson; "Liver Eatin Johnson". There are many stories about Hugh Glass and many other Mountain Men that 'll also tickle yer innards. However, I do gravitate to the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars in my history. Cause it is the part of the Country where I grew up. The Zanes, the roots of Wheeling, West Virginia, The Iroquois Nation, Jamestown, Virginia(my paternal ancestor landed there in 1630), crossing of the mountains(Appalacians). Its all good, Brother! Them Boys(and Girls) was tougher than a 12 valve Cummins! Waagghhh! Yer welcome ta come ta visit any old time and share grub, fire and shelter, such as it is! Jes bring yer own squaw, WagggghhhhhhhOo! GregH

Greg,



Thanks for starting a just another Tuesday into a starting out great Tuesday, I just hold it holds up after this hilarous start.



I wasn't too far off, but I didn't see any West By God roots in yer speak. And I have spent many an opening day week in the great WV and enjoyed every day in it.



Take care my friend, keep yer powder dry, yer knives sharp and yer squaw happy.

 

[The patriot]

Patriot,



Would they qualified as Micro-waved with their coats on after eating the voltage outa that Dakota?



If squirrels eat into a hybrid hi voltage wiring, would they be overcooked?

I dunno, hafta look into that. :-laf

 

[Wayne M.]

However, I do gravitate to the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars in my history. Cause it is the part of the Country where I grew up. GregH

Greg, where exactly did you grow up?

 

[GHarman]

Greg, where exactly did you grow up?

West Virginia and Pennsylvania. GregH

 

[SRath]

The trouble with squirrel is the different species. Where I live, we have both scrawny little grey squirrels (often black and every color in between including some white) and then we have the much larger red or fox squirrels, and they are the ones to hunt and eat!



Like any rodent, squirrels in or near your domicile or shop can be truly dangerous. They gnaw on everything -- including electrical wires -- and they have been known to cause homes to burn to the ground from doing so.



I had a pet squirrel back in high school. A big ol' fox squirrel. Found him in the street as a baby after a huge storm broke the limb his nest was in. My grandma bottle fed him until he could eat solid foods. He was a lot of fun, but one day the wild in him came back and he bit clean through Grandma's finger. So we turned him loose in our yard full of walnut trees.



Sometimes, guests would stop by and be walking up the sidewalk and suddenly have a kamikaze red blur leap onto them and run up and/or down them and be gone back into the trees in the blink of an eye. Guaranteed to freak 'em right out. My friends and I loved it, though it was probably pushing the cardiac limits of some of my grandparents' elderly friends. He always liked to play and would still eat from anyone's hand. Never bit anyone again.



Squirrel is a little tough, imo, if you don't cook it right. A crock pot, some cream of mushroom soup, and a bit of seasoning does it justice.

 

[BullyDogJason]

my father in law uses peanuts to catch them