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Woodchuck livers rolled in flour and seasoning and fried in butter are excellent. A very mild taste more like chicken livers than beef or deer. bw
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I always wondered what the first guy to eat a chicken say it tasted like. Anyway, I know my granddad used to eat them. They were so poor they would sometimes have to go fishing for supper.
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Yup, I like'em!! My Grandma used to cook them several different ways. I like them in crock pot and add all the fixin's like a yankee pot roast. Ya lety me know when we are going. I am dying to hunt with you and lil' Joe!! Shawn
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Pennsylvania Pot Roast . I live trapped one in my yard a few years ago and threw it in the truck to relocate. It stunk awful bad. The ones I have shot with the .22 crawled under my shed and died so I never got to them. I often count coup with em in the summer when out in the woods with the bow. They have been pretty easy to happen upon in the terrain around here mostly because of the mixed habitat and their absolute fixation on gorging themselves. Stalking one in a field would be very difficult.
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I always see marmot's in rocky area's above timberline when I'm elk hunting. I had never thought of eating one so I had no desire to hunt them. After this post, I can hardly wait to give them a try this fall. If I can get one it will be a nice bonus to the pot along with the grouse, ptarmigan and rabbit.
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Vance the ground hog or wood chuck is Marmota Monax. The Yellow-bellied Marmot is what's typically called the rockchuck where you are....Marmota flaviventris. Two different species but closely related.
I have no idea how rockchucks taste, never had the good fortune
Clinton, you can easily see them when you skin the critter, kinda like a light colored m&m just on the outside of the body behind the armpit area and at the base of rear legs.
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"Flaviventris Fricassee"....oh my, we've gone all fancy with our rockchuck stew
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Sucks when I was a kid, enons ago, we had young whistle pigs like we had chickens. Dad would give me his ole J. C. Higgens single shot .22 and say get your mom some thing for supper. Great eaten!
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This is the first that I have ever heard of someone eating them things. I was always told they were greasy and had a bad smell, but I don't think I actually ever knew anyone that ate one.
We used to shoot them cause the farmers would ask us to.
Alot of the ones that I have shot also had mange.
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I don't understand killing anything and not eating it or using its hide. That said "chuck" is as good as it gets and treating it like you would any other fine piece of meat will reward you with some great eating. Crock pot with favorite vegetables and seasoning works well. If you live in chuck country there may also be some muskrats around and they are really fine eating also. There called Michigan Marsh Hare on the menu of expensive restaurants. Frank
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