Eating racoons?

[Here-Kitty-Kitty]

on the whole Porcupine thing. If you have a hunt spot that you go to on a normal basis, watch for them. If you do ever get lost and need food, you can eat one raw and not have to worry about getting sick. They have no parasites in there meat what so ever.

[The Grebe]

Thats not what I heard....I heard that porkies are notorious for a least one kind of parasite...tape worms. Don't know, but I do know that porkies and raccoon aren't on our menu in the foreseeable future. With the gloom and doom that is our economy, that could change!

[Cold_blood]

well notice he said no parasites in there meat last time i checked tape worms were in the stomach which isn't part of the meat so you should be fine

[The Grebe]

Your right about the stomach.... but I do believe I read that the polyps from which those things grow, can be in the meat? They advised cooking meat of suspected carriers, above a certain temperature, so as to kill any eggs/polyps or whatever they are?

Weither they manifest there, or maybe end up there during the cleaning process, I don't know? Whatever the case may be, we'er not having any for dinner this afternoon, thats for sure!

[xHCxOutdoorsman]

i know this ios a late response but i think that coon is actually pretty good, almost anything will be good if you cook it right i have done coon in stew and have had it bbq style

[WyoChris]

Not a coon...... but this past summer me and a buddy found a dead heron in the woods by the lake. After a few beers, I went and got it and cooked it up over the fire. It was the worst meat I ever tasted, tasted like swamp water. The next day I threw up in the morning when I saw it's breasted carcass.

[jeffreyd]

I have had the three listed, the raccoon and rat as a hamburger mix over mashed tatoes. The beaver was grilled and i will throw one more in the arena. My ex bro in law shot a 170 mountain lion here in az. he had it mounted and kept some of the meat. he grilled it up and man was it good but a tad rich for me. i could handle a steak about the size of a fist.

[123fish]

WyoChris what do you consider a few beers? Yuck!!

[Jmnhunter]

I'll stick to my clean meats

[Archerysniper]

Love shreaded bbq coon a little bit of famous daves devil spit and have a hard time telling it's not pork.

[Leaddog]

I remember as kid my dad bring home some coon, each of three guys at work were to take some, but only he did. Don't remember tasting it but I know mom put it in his lunch everyday til it was gone.

I do a little pest control trapping and my sleddogs chow the beaver meat but won't touch coon!

When pheasant hunting one Spinger will cross a coon, let out one bark and all four dogs will immediately converge. They'll kill em just won't eat em.

[alwaysonthemove]

Personally I love Beaver ha ha you know what I am talking about!

[Bandit]

I have a cookbook that has a recipe for coon brains in it, is anybody interested??

[mtheis]

When I was a boy I trapped for wild game that our family could eat. I caught a large raccoon, and my grandpa and I cooked it up with a tomato sauce and potato mixture that was absolutely delicious. All I remember is that my grandmother wanted to shoot him for stinking up her kitchen, but boy was that raccoon good. I think it can be made to be very palatable with the right recipe.

[jigginjim]

I caught a beaver, the guy that owns the land where I caught it asked if I was going to cook it? They would make stew from the beavers they would shoot. My wife will not eat wild game, unless its burger. I may just grind the next beaver, beaver burgers on the 4th of July.

[The Grebe]

JJ,

That stuff is good, I like it better then most venison I've tried....excpt for a couple of steaks I had the other day, man they were good. You have to make sure the critter is fresh and you have to get vertually all the fat off of it. Then cook it however you want. Stew is super.

[Whitefishnetter]

I don't believe that it is a good idea to eat any meat raw, including domestic critters. Its a good idea to use those inexpensive ($.18 ) game gloves when cleaning or skinning these creatures also. The best eating are always the young and cute as opposed to a more impressive trophy coon. Long slow simmering with BBQ sauce is a good place to start, Happy Cooking.