BilletHead Posted June 23 Posted June 23 How many of you remember Hee Haw? Well we had fried young groundhog , taters and gravy with a side of sweet corn. Shot and little one and when I say little I mean little. @oneshot 1 this is for you old buddy. Since this groundhog was eating the clover planted for the bees we decided to eat her. A nice headshot put it down. It was easier to clean than a squirrel and I've cleaned bigger fox squirrel before. Melt in your mouth tender and actually a young one is more tasty than a squirrel. VID_20250622_133156213.mp4 dpitt, Greasy B, Johnsfolly and 4 others 7 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
fishinwrench Posted June 23 Posted June 23 It's just as well that I wasn't invited to that meal....... because 1/3 of a groundhog would only arouse my appetite, without bedding it back down. 😊 curtisce, Flysmallie and nomolites 3
BilletHead Posted June 23 Author Posted June 23 17 minutes ago, fishinwrench said: It's just as well that I wasn't invited to that meal....... because 1/3 of a groundhog would only arouse my appetite, without bedding it back down. 😊 I told Pat and she agreed we each eat one of that size. "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
tjm Posted June 23 Posted June 23 I haven't eaten (or I should "et" ) groundhog since the '60s, but they can be probably twice that size and still be tasty. BilletHead 1
BilletHead Posted June 23 Author Posted June 23 42 minutes ago, tjm said: I haven't eaten (or I should "et" ) groundhog since the '60s, but they can be probably twice that size and still be tasty. How old before they get tough? I know a long slow braise can make them tender. If another young one shows up I will "et" it Johnsfolly 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
tjm Posted June 23 Posted June 23 10 hours ago, BilletHead said: How old before they get tough? I'm not really sure, at least a year or more, I think, for frying and the old yeller toothed ones cook up pretty well in the oven. Dad was the whistle pig hunter and he cooked most of them, so while I helped some I wasn't really paying attention, as teenagers often don't. I do recall that they have those bean sized glands in armpits, back and hip area, about the same as a 'coon, take those out. You can probably judge the cooking method by how they skin, the tough ones likely have have tough skins, those are the hides that Grandpa told me to cut into "wangs", the strips stretched so much that one for boot laces would start out ~1" wide, just cut a spiral 'round and 'round so it's one long strip. I suppose they can live five or six years and get up to 12-15 pounds, and are capable of eating 30 full grown cabbages in one day, but of course that cabbage eater may have been several. I think maybe the biggest that Dad fried might have been 6-8 pounds, but that was a long time ago, he died of heart attack in '68 and my memory may have made the animals either larger or smaller over the years. They really are big squirrels, as the marmots are all ground squirrels. Johnsfolly, BilletHead and Greasy B 3
Johnsfolly Posted June 23 Posted June 23 16 hours ago, BilletHead said: How old before they get tough? I know a long slow braise can make them tender. If another young one shows up I will "et" it Looks tasty Marty! I've never eaten a whistle pig, woodchuck, grund hawg, land beaver, or thickwood badger. I used to attempt hunting them in PA. I would try and stalk them in the thick fence rows. I never had the patience to wait for them to pop back up once they went underground after I spooked them. I knew guys that would set up a shooting bench and shoot them like prairie dogs out west. We see a lot of them locally as they stand along side the roadways. I guess that I need to practice my drive by shooting😉😂 Greasy B and BilletHead 2
BilletHead Posted June 23 Author Posted June 23 3 hours ago, Johnsfolly said: Looks tasty Marty! I've never eaten a whistle pig, woodchuck, grund hawg, land beaver, or thickwood badger. I used to attempt hunting them in PA. I would try and stalk them in the thick fence rows. I never had the patience to wait for them to pop back up once they went underground after I spooked them. I knew guys that would set up a shooting bench and shoot them like prairie dogs out west. We see a lot of them locally as they stand along side the roadways. I guess that I need to practice my drive by shooting😉😂 I do recommend a young one for sure John. Johnsfolly 1 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Terrierman Posted June 24 Posted June 24 The only one I ever cooked was extraordinarily well fastened to it's hide. I tried to cook it low and slow on a grill. At the end of three hours or so it was inedible. Tough. Extraordinarily tough. That was a failed experiment and I never tried to improve my average. Johnsfolly 1
Foghorn Posted June 24 Posted June 24 The last time I ate "ground hog", it was Jimmy Dean's! Johnsfolly, rps, snagged in outlet 3 and 2 others 1 1 3
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