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  • GWG8541G GWG8541

    RON PARRISH love squirrel gravy.

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    GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.

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      GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.

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      Chef https://youtu.be/zjjpW-To3Ms Check this out

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        Chef https://youtu.be/zjjpW-To3Ms Check this out

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        RON PARRISH Okay. That’s easy enough. Dr_Pain , I’m guessing you would approve!

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          Squirrels? I refer to them as tree rats. Don’t care for them. Have heard the tails are popular to those who are into fly tying.

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            GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.

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            Chef said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:

            GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.

            WHAT!!!

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              GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.

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              Chef They go into the compost bin at my house, where they go after that I have no control. It either fertilizer in the spring or the coyotes, red tail hawk or owls pick them up. All I know they don’t steal nuts and the dogs don’t have to stand watch under the tree all the time. I have the squirrels trained now as soon as I come out with the pellet pistol, they are looking for a quick exit ahead of the dogs or the pellet.

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                GWG8541 Even I have had squirell! I am betting they are the same as rabbit, you couldn’t survive on them from the lack of fat, aside form a neighborhood squirell.
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                • JonathonJ Jonathon

                  GWG8541 Even I have had squirell! I am betting they are the same as rabbit, you couldn’t survive on them from the lack of fat, aside form a neighborhood squirell.
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                  Jonathon mine are far from looking like that. They are skinny and get plenty of exercise from the dogs chasing them down the fence line and out of the yard. One of these days my females will get one, she catches rabbits

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                    Chef Kill a bunch of those tree rats, vac seal them and bring them to me when you finally decide to come visit

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                    • JonathonJ Jonathon

                      GWG8541 Even I have had squirell! I am betting they are the same as rabbit, you couldn’t survive on them from the lack of fat, aside form a neighborhood squirell.
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                      Jonathon You must be feeding this guy well.

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                      • johnsbrewhouseJ johnsbrewhouse

                        YooperDog grey squirrels, they were pushed into our area when they clear cut a training area on the military base just down the road. They told everyone they were restoring the oak prairies when they did it. They drove all the animals off their natural habitat so now the scrounge for food and aren’t that fat.

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                        johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:

                        YooperDog grey squirrels, they were pushed into our area when they clear cut a training area on the military base just down the road. They told everyone they were restoring the oak prairies when they did it. They drove all the animals off their natural habitat so now the scrounge for food and aren’t that fat.

                        Army or Air Force military? The AF folks always have a hidden agenda, the Army folks are just down right sneaky. LOL. Never ate squirrel brains but I have eaten a few things, rabbit eyeballs for one, that most haven’t. I don’t have too many food aversions. The reds and grey’s battle it out here, reds having the numerical advantage. My biggest nemesis here are the chipmunks. You would need to kill ten just to get an appetizer and you still wouldn’t have enough hide to make one mitten. With the reds and chipmunks they do a lot of damage here.

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                          Squirrels? I refer to them as tree rats. Don’t care for them. Have heard the tails are popular to those who are into fly tying.

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                          PapaSop said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:

                          Squirrels? I refer to them as tree rats. Don’t care for them. Have heard the tails are popular to those who are into fly tying.

                          Mepps will buy or trade them for fishing lures, etc… that they produce. They are located in Antigo, WI.

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                          • JonathonJ Jonathon

                            GWG8541 Even I have had squirell! I am betting they are the same as rabbit, you couldn’t survive on them from the lack of fat, aside form a neighborhood squirell.
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                            Jonathon That little fella would need some fat trimmed off prior to consumption…

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                            • YooperDogY YooperDog

                              johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:

                              YooperDog grey squirrels, they were pushed into our area when they clear cut a training area on the military base just down the road. They told everyone they were restoring the oak prairies when they did it. They drove all the animals off their natural habitat so now the scrounge for food and aren’t that fat.

                              Army or Air Force military? The AF folks always have a hidden agenda, the Army folks are just down right sneaky. LOL. Never ate squirrel brains but I have eaten a few things, rabbit eyeballs for one, that most haven’t. I don’t have too many food aversions. The reds and grey’s battle it out here, reds having the numerical advantage. My biggest nemesis here are the chipmunks. You would need to kill ten just to get an appetizer and you still wouldn’t have enough hide to make one mitten. With the reds and chipmunks they do a lot of damage here.

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                              YooperDog Joint base adjoining Ft. Lewis and McChord AFB. I am a former military brat. My dad and mom were Army, my brother was a helicopter pilot in the AF, died in an aircraft accident in 87. My brother work for AAFES for 20 + years. I have live at both ends of the bases for over 35 years. True the Army is very sneaky about what they do, the prairie restoration is for the Oregon Oak tree which is endangered, yet they do prescribed burns on the prairie every 2 years that burns all the tree’s. It keep the training free of obstructions and stinks up our area. They burn during burn bans.

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                                YooperDog Joint base adjoining Ft. Lewis and McChord AFB. I am a former military brat. My dad and mom were Army, my brother was a helicopter pilot in the AF, died in an aircraft accident in 87. My brother work for AAFES for 20 + years. I have live at both ends of the bases for over 35 years. True the Army is very sneaky about what they do, the prairie restoration is for the Oregon Oak tree which is endangered, yet they do prescribed burns on the prairie every 2 years that burns all the tree’s. It keep the training free of obstructions and stinks up our area. They burn during burn bans.

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                                johnsbrewhouse I have flown out of McChord several times and did some training with the Army, airborne training, but it has been awhile. Flying is pretty unforgiving when things go wrong, not a lot of good options. Sorry hear about your brother. I have had to listen to and watch the black box recordings of friends/ squadron mates involved in an aircraft crash. I already knew the outcome but I kept hoping to hear something different.

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                                  HerbcoFood Squirell fat pretty bad? johnsbrewhouse Yeah, the ones I hunted really opened my eyes to the difference between a suburban animal and a really wild animal. bocephus Nope, I don’t feed wild animals, it was a screen grab. some idiot in my neighborhood was feeding the coyotes a few years back. I’m still trying to understand the thought process and all I can come up with is he hated having a few cats or bunnies or something around?

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                                    HerbcoFood Squirell fat pretty bad? johnsbrewhouse Yeah, the ones I hunted really opened my eyes to the difference between a suburban animal and a really wild animal. bocephus Nope, I don’t feed wild animals, it was a screen grab. some idiot in my neighborhood was feeding the coyotes a few years back. I’m still trying to understand the thought process and all I can come up with is he hated having a few cats or bunnies or something around?

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                                    Jonathon You know I have no idea, there just comes a point in the fat to meat ratio that isn’t ideal!

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                                    • JonathonJ Jonathon

                                      HerbcoFood Squirell fat pretty bad? johnsbrewhouse Yeah, the ones I hunted really opened my eyes to the difference between a suburban animal and a really wild animal. bocephus Nope, I don’t feed wild animals, it was a screen grab. some idiot in my neighborhood was feeding the coyotes a few years back. I’m still trying to understand the thought process and all I can come up with is he hated having a few cats or bunnies or something around?

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                                      Jonathon The coyotes roam by most every night, they only come when the dogs are in. I can’t shoot them with the .22 pistol since their are houses now across the creek from my house. When I had my Wolfhounds they rarely traveled the back area near the creek because of the fear of the W/H’s size and access outside all night. My neighbors leave food out for cats all the time and wonder why they have racoons and rats visiting them every night.

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                                      • JonathonJ Jonathon

                                        HerbcoFood Squirell fat pretty bad? johnsbrewhouse Yeah, the ones I hunted really opened my eyes to the difference between a suburban animal and a really wild animal. bocephus Nope, I don’t feed wild animals, it was a screen grab. some idiot in my neighborhood was feeding the coyotes a few years back. I’m still trying to understand the thought process and all I can come up with is he hated having a few cats or bunnies or something around?

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                                        Jonathon We have a village here that wants to take care of coyotes and they wonder where there cats and small dogs are disappearing to.

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                                          Jonathon We have a village here that wants to take care of coyotes and they wonder where there cats and small dogs are disappearing to.

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                                          bocephus The problem is the coyotes are part of the natural ecosystem. They clean up the roadkills and other dead animals usually. The only time they really hunt small cats and dogs is when they are pushed out of their natural environment or lured out by humans feeding them on purpose or unknowingly by leaving things out. They can be trapped or snared fairly easy since they follow the same paths all the time. Most of the ones we have are night hunters now, not wanting to be exposed to harm during the day.

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