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Bambi is absolutely delicious. There's nothing like healthy wild venison, it's my favourite meat.
How far can a squirrel fall
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Bambi is absolutely delicious. There's nothing like healthy wild venison, it's my favourite meat.
I've heard it tastes very good as well.. never had.
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Short story:
Back about 20 years ago I was with my (now-ex) girlfriend's family at their trailer up in northern Ontario. It was deep in the woods on a private lake. The whole area was only accessible via old logging roads, very remote. Her grandfather had venison and he made some burger patties the one afternoon using fresh onion and I'm not sure what for a binder, might have been egg or pork. They were the best burgers I've ever had, still not sure exactly what he did to prepare them but they were utterly divine.
Since then, I've done venison sausages, steaks, various attempts at patties myself, ground venison in place of beef in pasta dishes...etc. My kids absolutely love it, so it's a treat whenever we have it.
It's an incredibly lean meat and thus quite good for you, but that does mean it's somewhat sensitive to prep. I'd highly recommend trying it if the opportunity presents itself.
Only meat other than chicken or beef I believe I ever had was veal.. I'm not even sure I like that anymore.
I like sirloin steaks a lot!
Thankfully your ancestors did or you wouldn't be here.
A coworker hit a deer in his month-old new car. I distinctly remember him saying "anyone that cries about Bambi never had Bambi nearly total his new car."
We say that, but persons like myself get food from stores now. Not sure that invalidates your point, but I don't have to go out and hunt for food tonight. First world problems.
True story that my boss tells once a year:
To set this story up, I'll note he served in the military and belongs to the local American Legion. Every memorial day, the local legion members, in full military dress, go to each local cemetery and fire their M1 Garand guns with blanks to honor the fallen veterans. It's three "Ready, fire!" commands with a shot after each command.
So one year they get to a local cemetery and they notice a squirrel in a large tree about 25 feet up, paying no attention to the veterans. The veterans get assembled and one of them calls out "Ready, fire!" When the guns go off the first time, the squirrel does a swan dive all the way down to the grass beside the tree, dazed and confused. After the next "Ready, fire!", the squirrel was sprinting across the long gravel parking lot. After the third "Ready, fire!", the squirrel jumped up a few feet while he was doing full speed to get the heck out of there.
By this time, all the veterans, who were there for a solemn occasion, were laughing as hard as they could for a full half minute after the third shot. My boss said the spectators tried to keep serious about it, but they couldn't do it either.
To set this story up, I'll note he served in the military and belongs to the local American Legion. Every memorial day, the local legion members, in full military dress, go to each local cemetery and fire their M1 Garand guns with blanks to honor the fallen veterans. It's three "Ready, fire!" commands with a shot after each command.
So one year they get to a local cemetery and they notice a squirrel in a large tree about 25 feet up, paying no attention to the veterans. The veterans get assembled and one of them calls out "Ready, fire!" When the guns go off the first time, the squirrel does a swan dive all the way down to the grass beside the tree, dazed and confused. After the next "Ready, fire!", the squirrel was sprinting across the long gravel parking lot. After the third "Ready, fire!", the squirrel jumped up a few feet while he was doing full speed to get the heck out of there.
By this time, all the veterans, who were there for a solemn occasion, were laughing as hard as they could for a full half minute after the third shot. My boss said the spectators tried to keep serious about it, but they couldn't do it either.
I'm not going to go into too much detail, but one of the more... amazing scam artists I knew in 2020 used to be appealing to my love of firearms by talking about hunting. Painted all sorts of scenarios about duck and other game hunting on private land. Used to get real excited about it too.
I definitely withdrew, it made me really uncomfortable and I was countering with, look, it's one thing to plink and shoot both bows and bullets at cans, targets, things off in the distance if there is really expansive land that borders two states etc etc but it bothers me the whole hunting aspect.
This person was a pathological liar and there was absolutely nothing true, but I remember that exchange on the topic.
Now I am aware there are plenty hunters on here and that is fine. To that, I would say.. if you are eating what you kill, then I can't see a harm in that. But beyond that? Not for me.
I definitely withdrew, it made me really uncomfortable and I was countering with, look, it's one thing to plink and shoot both bows and bullets at cans, targets, things off in the distance if there is really expansive land that borders two states etc etc but it bothers me the whole hunting aspect.
This person was a pathological liar and there was absolutely nothing true, but I remember that exchange on the topic.
Now I am aware there are plenty hunters on here and that is fine. To that, I would say.. if you are eating what you kill, then I can't see a harm in that. But beyond that? Not for me.
I have no problem with hunting for food, its the trophy hunting and killing creatures for no good reason that bothers me.
VERY WELL SAID and I would agree with that.
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Yeah, I understand the conservation aspect of trophy hunting (big game hunts in places like parts of Africa apparently provide a MAJOR injection of capital into these economies that desperately need it, which in turn apparently works to prevent poaching and the killing of endangered species) but I could never do it personally. For food, definitely, and the other reason is pest control, for which I've killed a great number of squirrels. They used to eat my buddy's cottage, so we had to keep the numbers down. They'd also break into our place; they were endemic on the island with no predators, so keeping their numbers under control involved killing them, otherwise they were constantly destroying property.
Sounds like when they do the Bear hunts sometimes. There are rules and stuff, but the hunters lineup to handle the problem.
Baby bears are cute, though.
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I know a few people that hunt bear up here, but they also eat it.
We hunt wild hogs but not for food. Except for the buzzards of course. They eat well.
This is BITOG, after all... No un-hijacked threads!
Mmmmm Bambi steaks. Squirrels are not so much fun when you hear them chewing through a floor joist then notice a yellow spot in the ceiling. A neighbor had 30 of them removed after much damage.
True that. I have been on bitog in one form or another since 2002. It was a wealth of information. I have been legitimately disappointed for a long while to see where it has gone.
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