[KG7IL]

Originally Posted by 303tom

But if you get one young enough they make one of the best pets you will ever find...........

I am having a hard enough time keeping by two dogs and two cat's from chasing (or eating) the chicks.

Do you think that I could break their predatory behavior if I got them as babies?

This makes a good Plan B, but Plan A seems to be working for that one.

[tCan]

I tried a 4x Centerpoint on mine, but had better results with the irons. I put the scope on my Daisy 880.

[winds-of-change]

Originally Posted by 303tom

But if you get one young enough they make one of the best pets you will ever find...........

I have bottle fed and raised several baby raccoons. They make pretty good pets until come fall, then they want to revert back to the wild and I always let them. They get pretty feisty once they reach sexual maturity.

Here's last year's bottle fed baby. I still leave food out for him every night and a baby pool set up for him in the summer. I hear him at the feeder (he has to open the top to get the food out) but he runs when I try to get a look at him.

[winds-of-change]

Anyway, did you ever cook and eat that coon? I wondered how you cooked it and whether it was good or not.

[tCan]

Originally Posted by winds-of-change

Anyway, did you ever cook and eat that coon? I wondered how you cooked it and whether it was good or not.

Yup

Originally Posted by tCan

All the chefs out there will probably be mortified to know that my stew included beef bullion, carrots, celery, onion, tomatoes, cumin, olive oil, red wine, a dash of cloves, basil, mixed veggies, salt and pepper... It could probably have done without the olive oil, but I thought it was good. My biggest fault in the kitchen is knowing when to stop...

Biggest complaint was the ungodly number of tiny bones that exist in that animal. I was only dealing with the quarters and there must have been at least 50 bones. My stew was a bit more crunchy than anticipated.

I don't have a recipe, but I soaked him in vinegar and brine, then in a vinaigrette BBQ sauce, then brazed him in flower and oil, and stewed for 10+ hours.

[winds-of-change]

Originally Posted by tCan

I don't have a recipe, but I soaked him in vinegar and brine, then in a vinaigrette BBQ sauce, then brazed him in flower and oil, and stewed for 10+ hours.

Was it tasty? Like someone else mentioned, I always thought of them as greasy.

[tri70]

Vinegar is good to take the gamey flavour out, I treat my deer meat with it. I even marinade with Worcestershire sauce and garlic salt. Worcestershire has vinegar and I will put in the freezer with the meat.

[mountainskytop]

USE BUTTERMILK TO MARINATE GAME!

While I have not personally done this wild game marination method, a buddy of mine many moons ago introduced me to buttermilk marinated venison and it was frickin AWESOME!

[Vick]

A good friends mom would put the meat threw a grinder and make a coon chilli. Good eats

[mountainskytop]

I am just suggesting a marinade of buttermilk with two refrigerated changes over 24 hours. It works wonders on venison!