Eating raccoon

**StonewallRabbitry** · January 4th, 2012, 08:03 PM

I ust started trapping this year and wondered if anyone around ate raccoon? I hate to waste any animal so I am planning to eat it. If you have tried it, how was it?

**sprrdhawk44** · January 4th, 2012, 08:14 PM

If the coons don't work out for you, you could always try:

**gnbrotz** · January 4th, 2012, 08:15 PM

http://www.backwoodsbound.com/zracoon.html

I'm close enough I might just try some if you invited me over.

**StonewallRabbitry** · January 4th, 2012, 08:44 PM

I will have to catch one first, which is not as easy as I thought it would be. Everything I have read says that they are good to eat I was just wondering if anyone has tried it. I guess I could always grind it up and make jerkey, everything tastes the same when made into jerkey

**cakeshooter** · January 4th, 2012, 08:47 PM

If they taste anything like squirrel, I would say "Ew" but you're probably right, you can make a little jerky out of it.... One time in SC my husband and a friend went squirrel hunting just for kicks and brought home a bunch of tiny pieces of meat and legs to fry up. Ehhhhh. I'm good with venison, Elk, Caribou, etc...I'll pass on the rodent. (Got to make some caribou stew recently as I went to Alaska to see my bro....yum.)

Nice fur though!

**Deleted** · January 4th, 2012, 08:50 PM

EW EW EW!!!!!

**huntr70** · January 4th, 2012, 09:00 PM

Ate lots of 'coon already.

Most of it got ground up and made into chili.

Now, if we get any in the traps, the bones get saved after boning the meat off and get cooked off for scrapple, with groundhog and deer bones.

**ruggerio** · January 4th, 2012, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by cakeshooter

If they taste anything like squirrel, I would say "Ew" but you're probably right, you can make a little jerky out of it.... One time in SC my husband and a friend went squirrel hunting just for kicks and brought home a bunch of tiny pieces of meat and legs to fry up. Ehhhhh. I'm good with venison, Elk, Caribou, etc...I'll pass on the rodent. (Got to make some caribou stew recently as I went to Alaska to see my bro....yum.)

Nice fur though!

my good buds wife made the best squirrel, onions, chick peas and a brown gravy over rice. delicious!!

**cakeshooter** · January 4th, 2012, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by ruggerio

my good buds wife made the best squirrel, onions, chick peas and a brown gravy over rice. delicious!!

Yeah? Well that sounds kinda good! I can't exactly say that the guys frying up the squirrel legs were the most gourmet cooks in the world...

I have been finding that most game can taste really good if its cooked slowly until tender in some sort of gravy/broth.