Bobcat as table fare?

[S. Brant Osborn]

Has anyone ever eaten bobcat?  I hear mountain lion is good?  Why not ?

Brant

[the not so straight arrow]

i cant say as though ive ever tried bobcat brant. i am the proud owner of quite the collection of hunting and fishing books, as are most outdoorsmen, and in none have i ever read a recipe for bobcat or heard of eating it. Did you shoot a cat that would like to eat, or just planning for a future occasion?

-cory

[JC]

Never had the occasion to eat a bobcat...but I have mountain lion twice and both convinced me it's the finest meat on the planet. I don't care one bit for hunting big game with dogs, but might just to get some mountain lion back on the table.

[killinstuff]

I'd eat it.

[vermonster13]

I had it at a game supper in a casserole type dish. Reminded me of some of the chicken I've had in some Asian restaurants.

[returntoarchery]

I've never been squeamish about eating wild game but somehow I can't seem to bring myself to the idea of eating the wild cats. I'm not a cat person either - I hate cats.

[S. Brant Osborn]

No, I don't have one.  I am not scared to try it though.  Saw one next to where I was parked at work that had been shot with a gun and had a huge hole ruining the cape.  I thought what a waste.  

I have had many opportunities to shoot at bobcats with both gun and bow and always passed them up.  Felt funny obout killing for the pelt and not eating it.  Maybe next time I will drop the string and hopefully post a recipe.  Heck, anything is palitable fried with biscuits and gravy!

Read a book as a kid, which name eludes me now, written by a modern trapper.  He said that after eating a tasteof all the different types of animal he came across in the mountains, coyote made him sick and was the only thing him found unfit to eat.

Brant
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[S. Brant Osborn]

How was the lion prepaired?

[S. Brant Osborn]

Had a guy cutting a tree at my house once.  His wife sold some of the best Hot tomalies I had ever had, so he brought a couple of dozen over.  He saw my big bloodhound and I jocked that it would make a lot of tomolies.  He cooly said,"It takes too much pepper to get dog to taste good, cat is much better!"

Note to self,count the cats when he leaves!
Brant

[JC]

I had the tenderloin grilled and some ham meat done in an italian dish kinda like veal parmesean. Dadgum I'm hungry now...gotta go find some lunch.

[DraglineMan]

I would eat one.

[returntoarchery]

Just remembered a joke for your favorite cat person. When they go on about their cats just say "I like cats. But I can't eat a whole one."    

[tradtusker]

if i remember corectly in one of howard hills books he cooked some at camp and fed it to the hunters, could have been something els though

[Tater 2]

Mountain Lion the other white meat!
 Marinade steaks in Italian dressing for a couple hours the throw 'em on the grill.
  I'm drolling on the key board.

[TexMex]

Put in tamales, no one will ever know.  :D

[non-typical]

It's considered a catsarole dish.....

[returntoarchery]

Originally posted by non-typical:
...a catsarole dish.....

       

[S. Brant Osborn]

All the starving comedians in the world!  HA!

[T.J.]

I've never had it but wouldn't hesitate at trying it.

[Drew]

I know old trappers use to eat it (bobcat), and I imagine it wouldn't be bad as most of the cat species aren't savagers unless they have to be. Coyotes on the other will eat anything and everything.

I have a old trapper friend from Russia, and he will eat anything I trap except coyote.

It's like anything, prep it good and prepare it in a good way and your fine.