eating a rock chuck!?!?

[sebek556]

 earlier went out to bag a few more chucks from my friends work, and there was a old Asian lady watching us. Felt kinda weird but hey what ever. Only got a good shoot opportunity on one, so I took it. It was only 20 yards so put the 20 pin on his face and wham another dirty little chuck is kick-in on the ground. the old Asian lady comes walking up, we could tell she was nervous about approaching us inside a big fence with razor wire. But she get the courage up and comes about 10 ft from us and ask with a heavy accent if we were going to eat it. Here we go I thought, she is going to tell us how wrong it is. So start off explaining how they are causing hundreds of dollars of damnage at the metal shop eating all the insulation out from curtain metal ordered and such when she stops me with a wave of her hand. Then asks if she could take it to eat it! She was not poorly dressed or anything looked like she was just out enjoying a evening walk. My friend and i just looked at ourselves dumbfounded and said yeah. She ran up opened her purse pulled out a grocery bag and bagged it up picked up my arrow and gave it back to me saying nice shot you did not ruin any meat and happy power walked away. So who has eaten a rock chuck on here?

[Sneaky]

I know a lot of the hay farmers around Quincy area used to tell  me stories about eating them when I used to head over for population control. Times were hard and they were free.

[Kain]

I have never eaten one but I dont think there is any reason not to.   

[spookgus]

Many cultures eat things you would not imagine. In the early 90's I ate and fished with legal immigrants from Laos and the various road kill they would pick up and eat would amaze you. A person could have made a good living supplying them with meat. Mammal, foul or fish they wanted the whole animal because the entrails were washed and consumed(nothing wasted). Anyway here is the two Rock Chuck, Marmot,Wood Chuck recipes I have.

1/8 tsp celery salt
1/8 tsp pleasoning seasoning
1/4 tsp minced onion
1/8 tsp black pepper
Your favorite barbecue sauce

Skin chuck and soak in strong salt water, for 4 hours. Cut up as you would a rabbit. Immerse in boiling water(15 min per #). The water should have just a bit of celery salt, minced onion, and black pepper. When meat is tender, remove from water and dry with paper towels. Cook on grill while basting with barbecue sauce. Brown both sides and check with fork to ensure meat is cooked thouroughly.

Pot Roast Chuck
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1 c. boiling water
1/2 c. flour
Clean and wash Chuck. Cut in small pieces. Soak 2 hours in cold salted water. Dry. Season with salt and pepper and roll in flour. Fry in hot bacon grease until brown. Add 1 c. boiling water, cover and cook slow.(about 4 hours). Add more water if needed. When done thicken juice with flour.

Bacon grease??? Doesn't everyone save their bacon grease for future use?

[sebek556]

so what do they taste like?
OK I will have to try one with the next head shot.. don't think I will get the wife and kids on board though.. and definitely will not eat any that is a heart shot they stink really bad when you puncture the chest cavity

[spookgus]

 What does it taste like??? I have not had the b#lls to try. It is profound the literature you find while clearing your grandparent's house in 73 after they pass. The WWII photo of gramps was WOW. The background had mountains but if you looked closer it wasn't mountains, but mountains of spent artillery shells.

[FC]

I ate one a long time ago, it was a little tough but tasted fine.

[spookgus]

I also have recipes for coon, beaver, muskrat, opossum, porcupine, skunk,wolf,and carp. Porcupine liver wrapped in bacon is supposed to be the bomb. I have not tried any of these but it looks like you can eat anything if you brine it for 4 hours prior to cooking. The recipe I have but can't find yet and may use again on holidays is minced meat pie with rum. The rum is supposed to go in the pie.

[trippledigitss]

Kind of off topic but I remember when I worked at Todd's Shipyard, they would bring barges/ships into drydock and scrape all the barnicles and mussels off the hulls. Then they would pile them up in huge piles before carting them off and they would sit there & bake in the sun and give off a bad steamy stink and some of the workers (not pointing any fingers but usually they were not 'locals' or natives of this country) would come up and fill bags & buckets of them to take home & eat. Not that there's anything wrong with it, just different I thought. I will always remember that for some reason, they looked & smelled so gross but those people would just love them. No thanks.

[Heredoggydoggy]

Never tried one myself, but if properly prepared, I would think they would taste a lot like rabbit.  They eat the same stuff.

The members of the Donner Party probably said "I'd never eat that" too.

[marty]

I grew up in eastern Oregon and hunted chucks all summer long. I would take them to this native American gentleman that would give me five dollars for each one he swore they were the best food there is but I never could bring myself to try one. 

[Michelle_Nelson]

Page 2. . . . .and he wasn't joking. 
 
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[Michelle_Nelson]

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[marmotsafari]

hehe.. ya BBQ's they aren't bad!

My wife and I have shot maybe a dozen. I figured what the heck. Tried the old marinade in Italian dressing then grill trick, worked a treat. Basted up with sauce.

Tried them in the crock pot too.. think I tried something with wine in there.. that was gross. But, woulda been gross what ever meat got put in it!

My handle comes from a joke about starting up a marmot guide service out in this part of the state.. Not that I know where that many are 

[DOUBLELUNG]

I've eaten a few, both eastern ground hogs and yellow-bellied marmots.  Like most small game, the young of the year are a lot more tender than adult animals.  Nothing wrong with the flavor, very mild - similar to rabbit.  More like gray and fox squirrels though.