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What wine would go good with this dinner ???
I was thinking more like a bottle of Jack Daniels.
You know, I've eaten all that before. Nope, not in Tennessee. At an annual wild game supper fundraiser held near Chicago when I lived in Illinois.
What did it taste like, chicken?
Steve
Possum was quite tasty, like venison in some regards. The raccoon was greasy and had a gamey flavor I did not particularly like. Besides bass, crappy and bluegill, we also ate wild goose (excellent), wild turkey (excellent), dove (excellent), sparrow (excellent), squirrel (great), venison (great), muskrat (gamey) and mink (gamey). So much of the taste of wild meats is in how you kill it and how you cook it.
Great meat can be ruined easily, so it's not like I wouldn't try raccoon again. I have had venison that tasted terrible and I have had it where it compared to the best steak in terms of flavor and tenderness.
Just too many deer and wild hogs down here in South Texas to mess with birds...even big birds like geese.
That's why there's 200 pounds of venison in my freezer right now that I would put up against any steak in the country. The deer were full of corn when shot and dropped on the spot. Best way to get good meat.
Now days, I strip out the whitetail backstraps and tenderloins...then I grind the rest into chilli meat or make sausage out of it.
Jim...over here we now have Axis deer running around...those big ole deer from India that looking like giant white fawns with all the white spots. They are grazers, grass eaters, but will chow down on corn. The meat is very fine grained and while lean, it will stand up against any beef steak. Now days, I strip out the whitetail backstraps and tenderloins...then I grind the rest into chilli meat or make sausage out of it. The Axis gets steaked out and handled with great care! It is very fine eating!
Sounds like you are making what I call DIRT shots...Dead Instantly Right There. Folks ask me why do you always shoot them in the head? Because, I don't eat the heads! I ain't Daniel Boone and I hate tracking a poorly shot deer for hours. Have no problem killing a deer to eat....I just hate to hurt any animal. Head shots....they are deer doing their thing one minute, the next minute they are protein for the freezer.
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