Rabbits?

[Flbt]

Taking the nephews rabbit hunting this afternoon.
Any one else still like fryed rabbit or rabbit stew and cornbread? Or biscuit?

 

[Flbt]

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[Kevin Peacocke]

In Africa we don't get rabbits per se, but scrub hares. My buddies and I have hunted them using air rifles, almost exclusively at night with a lamp. They are not great eating though.

 

[JimP]

Where are you hunting rabbits this time of year, most states close the good eating kind the end of February.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Rabbit is a very popular delicacy in my family home. We typically take them with either a .22 Long Rifle (loaded with CCI Stinger 32Gr Hollow Points) or with a 12 gauge loaded with 32-42 grams of #4 bird shot over torchlight at night, when they come to feed at the wild pumpkin fields near our property. We hunt them over hounds as well, during the day time. Then, the 12 gauge is exclusively used.

In my family, we typically eat Western cuisine one day and then alternate with Eastern cuisine on the next (and eat out on the weekends when we don't go hunting). Here are a couple of our family's favorite ways of cooking rabbit.

Southern style buttermilk batter fried

Oven roasted in red wine sauce

Charsi Tikka

 

[Flbt]

Where are you hunting rabbits this time of year, most states close the good eating kind the end of February.

Florida there no season on them or squirrel for that matter now.
The old people said as long as the month had a R in it they were safe.
The month with out the r they would get wolves. Bacilly some kind of bot fly

 

[Flbt]

It did not go as expected went in to the first blackberry patch

And mr rattlesnake desided to show up
The boys were ready to call it a day

 

[Flbt]

Ok I think it came through

 

[Velo Dog]

Greetings Flbt,

Yes definitely, my mother was from that area within Missouri known as “The Ozarks”.
She taught me how to prepare and enjoy all 4 of the foods you mention, as well as other recipes from that area, (such as squirrel & dumplings for one).

Having said that, my favorite recipe’ for our snowshoe hare over here in Alaska is, to simmer them in Tikka Masala sauce until falling off the bones.
Then served over Basmati rice, accompanied with lemon slices, cucumber salad, sour yogurt and garlic naan bread (or flour tortillas in a pinch) and it is quite good.

Pictured below Left to Right:
Myself and my friend Don ( 1dirthawker ) with a bundle of snowshoe hares that he shot.
Each time I have hunted these little critters with Don, he has shot several and I have shot exactly none.
In fact I’ve not even shot AT one while hunting them in the company of Don, Aka: 1dirthawker.

It’s not that I’ve generally failed to sack my share of these tasty rodents, because indeed I have taken many, over my 42 years in this place.
It’s just that Ol’ Don is really really good at it.
Seems like while hunting with him, any time I see one, it is either about the time one of his rifle bullets is braining it or, it is already hanging from his belt when I first set eyes on it. LoL

Anyway Cheers,
Velo Dog.

 

[Firebird]

Generally not hunted after March due to the females having kits. June until fall freeze is when they have lots of bugs-fleas especially.
We eat cottontails but never jackrabbits although we hunt both with rimfire rifles or shotguns and light loads. Have snowshoe hares as well and I’ve killed afew in the snow but they are a lot of work for not much sport or meat.
We also raised them for meat when I was a kid. I love rabbit cooked just about anyway!

 

[Firebird]

I believe Spain is called the “land of rabbits” although I’ve never heard of anyone hunting them there-I suspect they do plenty of rabbit hunting and eating-

 

[Flbt]

Rabbit is a very popular delicacy in my family home. We typically take them with either a .22 Long Rifle (loaded with CCI Stinger 32Gr Hollow Points) or with a 12 gauge loaded with 32-42 grams of #4 bird shot over torchlight at night, when they come to feed at the wild pumpkin fields near our property. We hunt them over hounds as well, during the day time. Then, the 12 gauge is exclusively used.
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In my family, we typically eat Western cuisine one day and then alternate with Eastern cuisine on the next (and eat out on the weekends when we don't go hunting). Here are a couple of our family's favorite ways of cooking rabbit.

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Southern style buttermilk batter friedView attachment 681492
Oven roasted in red wine sauce
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Charsi Tikka

That all looks good.
With us it’s normally spot and stalk if I could walk with them.
Good lesson for them
I let them use shotguns
I use a old single six ruger 22 mag with 40gr fmj

That’s the best thing about fl if you want to you can hunt something most of the year
Not counting hogs they are year round on private land

 

[thriller]

Taking the nephews rabbit hunting this afternoon.
Any one else still like fryed rabbit or rabbit stew and cornbread? Or biscuit?

Sous vide those back legs then pan fry for texture they are fantastic

 

[Flbt]

Greetings Flbt,

Yes definitely, my mother was from that area within Missouri known as “The Ozarks”.
She taught me how to prepare and enjoy all 4 of the foods you mention, as well as other recipes from that area, (such as squirrel & dumplings for one).

Having said that, my favorite recipe’ for our snowshoe hare over here in Alaska is, to simmer them in Tikka Masala sauce until falling off the bones.
Then served over Basmati rice, accompanied with lemon slices, cucumber salad, sour yogurt and garlic naan bread (or flour tortillas in a pinch) and it is quite good.

Pictured below Left to Right:
Myself and my friend Don ( 1dirthawker ) with a bundle of snowshoe hares that he shot.
Each time I have hunted these little critters with Don, he has shot several and I have shot exactly none.
In fact I’ve not even shot AT one while hunting them in the company of Don, Aka: 1dirthawker.

It’s not that I’ve generally failed to sack my share of these tasty rodents, because indeed I have taken many, over my 42 years in this place.
It’s just that Ol’ Don is really really good at it.
Seems like while hunting with him, any time I see one, it is either about the time one of his rifle bullets is braining it or, it is already hanging from his belt when I first set eyes on it. LoL

Anyway Cheers,
Velo Dog.

Squirrel and dumplings I have not had that since my aunt died.
My wife and doughter love squirrel and rice so that’s how we have it most of the time unless I decide to fry some .
My aunt that really took my mother place was depression era and we ate wild alot
The fl wild oinion are up good now showed the boys how to get and use them ( ramps from the ozark probably close)
Mulberry are ready to.
Juice the mulberry to take the place of wine
After you cook the rabbit leave a little greas in the pan put the oinion 1/4 cup of juice salt pepper let simmer and add some heavy cream at the end and let thicken
It makes a wonderful sauce ( or just use wine)
She said grandpa brought the resipe back from France in 18

 

[Flbt]

Oh btw the rattlesnake not going to wast. Called a buddy that will eat them.

I am not touching it.
I Tryed it one time if times get bad I can eat it.
But times not that bad now. Lol

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Oh btw the rattlesnake not going to wast. Called a buddy that will eat them.

I am not touching it.
I Tryed it one time if times get bad I can eat it.
But times not that bad now. Lol

I have to agree with you. If someone else fixed it, I could try eating it, but I have no desire to handle, prepare or cook it.

Reminds me of my cooking a dog fish shark. Even after I removed the head, gutted and skinned it, the meat in the sink acted like it was trying to crawl out. I did eat it, and it wss excellent, but the "creepy" factor has kept me from keeping another one.

 

[Flbt]

I have to agree with you. If someone else fixed it, I could try eating it, but I have no desire to handle, prepare or cook it.

Reminds me of my cooking a dog fish shark. Even after I removed the head, gutted and skinned it, the meat in the sink acted like it was trying to crawl out. I did eat it, and it wss excellent, but the "creepy" factor has kept me from keeping another one.

Well I do eat gator and frog so the movement is so so lol.
But had a cousin get bit by one saw what it did to him.
And as a kid cutting under electric cow fence had one strike and get stuck on a boot. Cut its head off. Took the boot of went to dad said I need new. Boots when he saw the snake head he agreed.
Having hoses cattle chickens and kids around
We have a no poison snake rule.

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Well I do eat gator and frog so the movement is so so lol.
But had a cousin get bit by one saw what it did to him.
And as a kid cutting under electric cow fence had one strike and get stuck on a boot. Cut its head off. Took the boot of went to dad said I need new. Boots when he saw the snake head he agreed.
Having hoses cattle chickens and kids around
We have a no poison snake rule.

Yeah. I have eaten frog legs and croc steaks, but I didn't have to prepare them.

 

[Velo Dog]

Oh btw the rattlesnake not going to wast. Called a buddy that will eat them.

I am not touching it.
I Tryed it one time if times get bad I can eat it.
But times not that bad now. Lol

Snake (and lizard) meat flavor reminds me of catfish Aka: barble fish meat.
But the snake meat texture was a bit more chewy.
It wasn’t as I recall extremely chewy but it was not as soft as catfish fish meat either.

One of my many character flaws is that (aside from fake sugar + 1 or 2 other things), I will eat almost anything, including reptiles, amphibians, raw fish and Limburger cheese, LoL.
And so at times, I have been over weight and have suffered high blood pressure.

At the moment, I’m in very good shape but it is a constant battle, because I am weak against temptation to oink down everything that I can shoot or hook or purchase in a store and cook it up.

 

[HankBuck]

Florida there no season on them or squirrel for that matter now.
The old people said as long as the month had a R in it they were safe.
The month with out the r they would get wolves. Bacilly some kind of bot fly

@Flbt - love rabbit hunting and “eating”, we cook them slowly in a crockpot and add in a can of Cream of Mushroom soup ——easy to do and they always come out very tender & moist. Regarding the “safe” seasons to eat them: I was told the same thing by my Dad “wait til after the first frost” and “don’t eat any if liver has White-Spots”….don’t know if either is true?? Regarding the BOT FLY larva - they look disgusting when you find one on a rabbit (bump just under the skin) but are harmless if the rabbit is “cooked”….easy to just cut them off when cleaning but agree “disgusting” to see.