Hunting License

[MOPanfisher]

2 hours ago, tjm said:

Young groundhog is good. The old ones are tough, just like chickens. They might get tender under pressure, Mom always just pan fried them. The skins make strong tough laces or whang leather, Grandpa had me cut the strips about an inch wide,  they lose width as they are stretched length wise. Groundhogs, like muskrats and cows,  are vegetarians, possums like buzzards are scavengers, meat as a rule takes on the flavor of the diet.

They are certainly edible and not bad if cooked and seasoned properly, however having a freezer full of fish, beef and deer I don't eat them.  

I have bought fishing/hunting licenses since I was old enough to require them never thought twice about it just bought them and moved on.  Even easier now, buy them from phone.  If you see and agent checking a line of phone and you are quick you could have one bought before he gets to you.  Of course you might so be the guy he starts with.  😏 

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

16 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Daryk I have always felt the same. Been buying all of those licenses for a long time. If I was still in MO I could have figured out a few spots to get you out for some bushytails. I have also thought that I have always got my money's worth every year. Hope that you feel the same year after year 👍👍

I have always felt I got my values from my permits.  I know of places to take squirrels and have the means.  Just never seem to make time.  I thought this would be my year.   But got reeled back in to Scouts, and seem to have taken the duty of taxi driver to my 15 year old son.   I am almost free.  Lol 

[Quillback]

4 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

I have always felt I got my values from my permits.  I know of places to take squirrels and have the means.  Just never seem to make time.  I thought this would be my year.   But got reeled back in to Scouts, and seem to have taken the duty of taxi driver to my 15 year old son.   I am almost free.  Lol 

Don't despair Daryk, should be seeing this in your local grocery store soon.  Probably next to the tuna.

[top_dollar]

4 hours ago, Quillback said:

Don't despair Daryk, should be seeing this in your local grocery store soon.  Probably next to the tuna.

This just made my day! 

[grizwilson]

On 5/27/2022 at 5:42 AM, Maverickpro201 said:

I knew you did not need a fishing permit, over 65. But did not know you did not need one for small game. 

Like I said I had bought a permit anyway. 

The problem is being resolved. I evidently have a male that has 2 females in the den. Because I have seen as many as 12. They are starting for the garden. Thats where it ends. 

I am not sharing my food with any of them. And season is open. 

If anyone wants the meat, let me know. They say there in the squirrel family. I eat squirrels but not groundhogs. They also say that they can climb tree's which I have verified, 2 days ago.  

 

One other more humane option is to live trap them, they like watermelon.  I have trapped many, there is a guy a mile or so down the road I do not care for, so I haul them down there for his enjoyment.........

[Dutch]

One was unlucky at the farm today.  She will be lunch for buzzards tomorrow.