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Scaru
08-22-2010, 04:42 PM
has anyone else here eaten ground hog recently i got the chance to try some in a stew and as jerky and i would highly reccomend it.

Beans
08-22-2010, 07:50 PM
Not recently, Last time was in the late 1950's. I would occasionally bring one home from hunting. My grandmother would cook it much like she cooked raccoon. She made Stew meat out of it.

IIRC It was a greasy meat

Winter
08-22-2010, 08:00 PM
Greasy meat? I'm sold

Camp10
08-22-2010, 08:31 PM
I dont remember greasy but it can be a little stringy. It is very tasty, I've had it as a stew and slow cooked in the crock pot. Both were very good.

Scaru
08-22-2010, 08:48 PM
try making some jerky out of it. it is so much better than beef jerky

Winter
08-22-2010, 08:59 PM
I'm still confused about DC area groundhogs?

Ole WV Coot
08-22-2010, 10:36 PM
Not bad if prepared correctly. Haven't had any in many years, remember Grandpa using the hide for a banjo head and boot laces. It wasn't greasy, now greasy is possum.

oldtrap59
08-23-2010, 12:59 AM
I recently ate some woodchuck that was ground and made into a sausage then smoked by a friend of mine. I guess you would call it a dry sausage. Got to tell you it was pretty tasty. I have ate it also in stews but not lately. Always enjoyed it though. As with most wild meats the enjoyment has alot to do with the preparation.

oldtrap

Scaru
08-23-2010, 12:34 PM
I'm still confused about DC area groundhogs?

lol i go to wv for 2 weeks in the summer and a couple days in spring and fall with a couple friends

Mertell
08-23-2010, 05:12 PM
Up here in Wisconsin, we serve "ground-hog" as a sausage.
Very popular.
Some call it "Bratwurst".

-Mert

letslearntogether47
08-25-2010, 01:54 PM
I dispatched one of these varmints with an umbrella of all things.
It was destroying my garden and the umbrella was the only available weapon.
Ran right up on it and bashed him over the head a few times.:smash:Wrecked a perfectly good umbrella doing it.
Didn't really look all that appetizing.But,I'm sure in a survival situation it would be a feast.