marmots

chuckinohio said:
Not quite, To be honest I got crossed up with roasting a goose and a groundhog, sorry bout that. You slit the skin on the breast of a goose to let the grease run out.

Skin them and clean them like any small game, and then roast them.

If Marmots are anything like our groundhogs are though, be careful handling them as they will be flea ridden. The older ones tend to be more grizzled and have lots of fleas, but the young ones pick them up quickly also. They live in the same burrows and all.

You could really have fun cooking one using natural herbs and edibles around your area, could be quite the woods banquet.

Do not turn your nose up at a muskrat either, they are tasty to eat. Like the Marmot or groundhog, the young ones are best for eating, and you treat them the same.

Try shake and bake mix on one, Marmot or Muskrat, it really comes out good. Use the commercial mix, or your own secret recipe and cook em up!

Chuck
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Sounds good. I have heard that about muskrat. If I ever come across one I'll give it a go on the wife and kids.
 
borrowed time said:
Marmot hunting.

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This is my first pistol hunting success! now i pistol hunt alot.

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i usually soak and stew my marmot ---------- Eric
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Nice pics. I enjoy pistol hunting for rabbits and squirrels. Never took a deer with one yet.
 
borrowed time said:
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That's a really scary photo... action closed, muzzle covering your other arm, finger on the trigger, and kids playground equipment in the background. :thumbdn:

Where did you learn your safe gun handling skills? :eek:

Stay sharp,
desmobob
 
Groundhog is good and greasy, very tough. Stew and chew. Never had marmot, but am pretty sure I would never confuse it with Marmite.
 
desmobob said:
That's a really scary photo... action closed, muzzle covering your other arm, finger on the trigger, and kids playground equipment in the background. :thumbdn:

Where did you learn your safe gun handling skills? :eek:

Stay sharp,
desmobob
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your right, i "F'ed" up. but the chamber was empty and the mag was down in my "man cave". Note to kids --- Do not do as i do, do as desmobob says; safety = :thumbup: thanks for the reminder!:o
 
If you have a chance you might wanna take a look at Karen's Cave cooking, from survival.com. Ron catches a few and they have it for dinner..

Uhm.. actually any dvd from Ron and Karen's collection, I highly recommend, I've watched mine over and over..... and will continue to watch them over and over.. Great material! A+
 
Missouri's department of conservation used to have an "old timer's" recipe book for sale, can't find it listed online now, but here's a wild game site with recipes. Old one has possum, groundhog, raccoon etc recipes.

If it was protein, country folks cooked it. :)


http://backwoodsbound.com/recipe.html
 
For the big ole tough ones, we always would soak them in milk for 24 hours at least.

I was always told that the lactic acid in milk would help to tenderize them, and it got rid of most of the strong gamey flavor.

Chuck
 
You can also Google "groundhog recipes", "woodchuck recipes", "cooking groundhog" or "cooking woodchuck" and pick up a few. I saw on www.outdoor-michigan.com one teriyaki recipe and one sour cream based recipe. Since marmot is very close, the recipes should be fine for both.

DancesWithKnives
 
http://www.amazon.com/Littlebees-Guide-Cooking-Fish-Game/dp/B0007FY356

AMAZON REVIEW of book. $2.99 or thereabouts. Have fun.

5.0 out of 5 stars Hillbillies can cook..., May 7, 2006
By Jes "The Pirate" - See all my reviews

I live in Missouri, and it was our Department of Conservation that had this book by Cy Littlebee (one of the conservationists) published. If you know a hunter or fisher, this is the cookbook to give.
The book has tons of recipes, some by Cy, many submitted by others from around the state, and very few without a bit of Cy's commentary. There are recipes for every kind of fish or game animal or bird you can immagine, every technique (from gourmet to tacking you fish to a bit of driftwood when down by the river), and every taste. The recipes are tried and true, passed down for generations, and while I'll skip some on principle (I'll agree with Cy and let someone else tell me how the book's one recipe for skunk turns outs), many are so delicious you have to try them again and again.
The only complaint I might have with this book is that there are no pictures with the recipes. But the down-home way they are all written, and the conversational way Cy describes them, you don't really miss it.
I recomend this book to anyone who hunts or fishes, lives with anyone or hunts or fishes, or even knows anyone who hunts or fishes. The recipes won't steer you wrong, and you will find so many more ways of preparing your game than you ever thought possible.


Kis
 
cuphead said:
if you have a chance you might wanna take a look at karen's cave cooking, from survival.com. Ron catches a few and they have it for dinner..

Uhm.. Actually any dvd from ron and karen's collection, i highly recommend, i've watched mine over and over..... And will continue to watch them over and over.. Great material! A+
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+1 ....
 
I'm ruthless when it comes to groundhogs. I don't eat them either. Just shoot 'em and leave 'em for the crows. Filthy buggers. I got a little varmint shooting in over the weekend- nothing terribly long range though. I took a couple chipmunks about 50 yards out with a .22- and one of them at about 15 yards with a .45. You should see what a .45 does to a chipmunk. "POOOOF!!!" A spray of fur and red mist- there weren't any pieces larger than a dime left over- that I could find anyway.
 
K Williams said:
Ron Hood ate them in one of his Hoods Woods survival videos. Looks like most of it is guts though. Not much meat.
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It was a bag of guts, wasn't it?

The muzzle flash on the forearm kind of made me shiver too. Don't much care about the swingset or the action being closed.

Don't much care about killing even a whistlepig for fun. They are nasty little animals when cornered, I've caught a lot of them in the past with a live Have-a-heart trap and let them go in the local state park, basically because I could not shoot them in a suburb of Baltimore City. But had I done that, I would have probably cooked them up.
 
Ron Hood does it all the time on his videos. It may be good to check out their nutrition content (I think there is a wild game nutrition website)

I haven't eaten one, but I sure have harassed one.

 
So what's the protocal for handling these things with regards to the fleas and plague? Clean and handle them when they're warm and then leave it alone while the body cools and the fleas jump off?
 
I try to wear the longer gauntlet-style dishwashing gloves when cleaning game like rabbits. When you skin marmots, I assume that the fleas would either abandon ship during that process or stay with the hide that you discard. I don't know whether spraying a marmot off with water before skinning would drive fleas out of the fur.

Thanks for bringing up the plague issue. I suppose I should be more cognizant of that risk.

DancesWithKnives
 
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