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My friend and I caught a couple muskrat one morning and while skinning them asked my friend," I wonder how it taste" he just laughed. Then we both looked at each other and shrugged out shoulders and cleaned it like you would a squirrel," much easier though"brought it in and put it in a crock pot with potatoes and what not. Couple hours later it was avery nice surprise to take that first slow bite, and it was very good and tender. Probably will try it again next year. Might try a beaver, if I get hungry enough!-LOL Whats the weirdest thing you guys have ever brought back from the woods and cooked?

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I won't eat anything other than regular game animals.

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Weasel- Either you're pullin" our leg or... you're the gutsiest guy I've ever met! I could see if you were stranded for days and starving, however, just for S&G's( Sh-ts and Giggles)????? Holy cow dude, you get the award from the boys on that one!

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the inclusion of the "rat" term in it's name makes me gag a little

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I think i would be able to atleast try just about anything.... take the head and fur off of most things.... it all looks pretty similar....

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I've eaten beaver and it's not bad. BBQ some and fried some like chicken fried steak.

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Tried Nuetra once but never again.

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All they eat are roots, grasses, and somtimes they will eat mussels so they are probably good for you. Squirrels are also a rodent like a muskrat.

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I'm a big fan of beaver myself, wife won't let me bring BBQ sauce into the bedroom though ;)

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I never have but thought about it. I should have since I got 195 of them this year. They eat all green stuff so I think they will taste good. Same goes for woodchucks. Some day I will try Muskrat,beaver and woodchuck but that means I have to cook it myself. That aint gonna happen too soon,lol.

I have heard of people eating bobcats. I think they might be tough but it would be like chienese food.:D:D

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when i was a youngster, my 80 yr. old grandpaw came to live with us for a while. we got to sample all sorts of game during that time-squirrel, rabbit, deer, possum, coon, blackbird pie, mountain oysters, crawdads, and rattlesnake. Mom would leave the kitchen when he started his cooking! when i went to Thailand in the service (71-72), i got to try all the normal food there. i had water buffalo, snake, monkey, cat, porch-pooch (family may be starving, but a pooch would be tied up on porch with food in the bowl for it. it was a great honor to have the pooch cooked for a special guest). and if you tried the monkey ball soup- they didn't take time to roll meat into those little round balls, if you get my drift. and we had mystery meat and rice several times a week. guy standing on side of road near our workshop would sell you a plastic bag of meat and rice for a nickle. i never got up the nerve to try the rice bugs-4-5 inch long, would fly into the sides of our planes- guards would gather them up and sell them for a nickle apiece. noticed that the Thais all had long fingernail on little finger of one hand. would use it to dig out the insides of bug after they tore the head off.
after stating that- there's not much i would turn down, if i knew how it was cooked, and by whom.

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Roadkill,When I was growing up in Pennsyltucky we ate Muskrat all the time but we called it MarshRabbit. Yummy:D:D:D:D

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Tried porqupine once(and only once). It was like eating electrical wire. I think ittasted like it too.

Ron:D

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the only thing i like better is groundhog, they are pure vegiterrians and the meat is unbelievable, never tried possums, that i know of anyway, but heck its all meat

other good choices beaver, coon (bbq'd), nutria, and smoked armidillos, leave'm in the shell, i have alsoheard polecat is good, but if its anything like javalina, the smell will get you before you even taste it[:'(]

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Muskrat used to be a staple on fridays at our house when i was growing up. It was great, and i still enjoy it. Beaver is great if you get a young one.

coon and other "exotic" meats were not available to us back then, but did try rattle snake - and liked it.

guess it's what you grew up with!

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In the early 70s i worked part time for a niceoldgent in Indian Head, MD. Ate muskrat at his home many times. He called them swamp rabbits. They were very good. Gray's store in Marbury, MD used to sell them: Guess that they bought them from trappers.

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I grew up in WV and we ate muskrat, groundhog,racoon, 'possum and all the usual small game as well as snapping turtle. It's all good if you fix it right.

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just a heads up, armadillos can carry Leprosy, don' think i'd be eating those bad boys!!!

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Groundhog is the best without a doubt to me. Didn't care much for coon. Rattle snake is good too. I tried gator last year and I am really wanting some more of that but there is none of those here in WV.


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I've heard muskrat meat is sweet is that true?

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Well, after reading alot of that I would say muskrat is a normal dish-lol
I dont think I could eat anything like coon, possum, or anything else that will eat anything.

matters- I guess you could say it is sweet, it does have its owntaste and a good one two, give it a try

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So what exactly does muskrat and beaver tast like???

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Savage they taste great ,just like a rabbit. You can tell their are some oldtimers on here.


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When I was trapping and single I used to eat "rats" a lot just because they are vegitarians ... they really are good eating... so is beaver and coon... never did the canine thing though.....

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i'll have to try that

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i have snake, squirril and rabbit,,,,but i must say that the last rabbit i had was not that good, maybe cuz i puncture its intestines while i was cleaning and it ruin the meet but it had a smell to it that i did not care for.

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Soooooo I can't believe how much trouble you went in the preparation of the rat dude!!!! If I were curious I might like...roast it over the fire with a stick or something...but you went all out and Emeriled the thing with potatoes and slow roast and everything!!!!! Seriously man, I'm pretty sure that I would have rather spent the 6 dollars on a roast and gotten some good tender beef through my troubles!!!!

~Cam

I'm thinking if I didn't have the six bucks though....and I was single and wasn't planning on feeding my wife or something....and I hadn't eaten in several days....and I didn't know what it was or didn't actually know what the animal was....I MIGHT have a meal of it.

I don't know...call me a *****, but even thinking of the potatoes stewing in the pot with a rodent all day makes me repulse even at the spudly's!!!!

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Same here, but, a friend of mine invited me up for some fried rabbit and little did I know that some was rabbit and some was muskrat. I didn't know about the muskrat until after I ate some and then they told me about it. Actually it was pretty good too.

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served shredded raccoon meat on a bun like shredded pork, at a wild game feed and every one loved it.

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Coon is pretty good.

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I must say, yote makes a fine meal if done right.;)

(joking)

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just a question
will a muskrat enter a cage trap?