Most of those are under “never been that hungry,” as far as I’m concerned.
Under wild game, black bear, elk, young wild pig are gourmet eats in my book. Venison I like, but if you’ve never eaten it you have to culture your palette to it, use it in “dark tasting” recipes...browned, then simmered in beer and worcestershire before making a venison stew, for example. Venison pasta sauce, I’ll make extra rich and spicy with red wine and chorizos...USED to make, I should say...haven’t been hunting since I moved aboard the boat.
To me, cottontail bunnies were just like chicken with more texture. If I wanted rabbit for dinner, in the midwest I’d go walking anywhere with my old Marlin .22, flush them and hit them on the fly. I’m pretty good at snap shooting, I’d walk in one direction until I’d gotten a couple rabbits, then head back to the road by a different route and pick up one or two more on the way. No reason to take more than I could cook; why stack them in tbe freezer when I could get them fresh at any time?
Now tbat I live aboard a sailboat I have zero guns, since I don’t hunt in Florida and it’s not legal for me to own a gun, anyway...tell that story another time. In the midwest I could care less about fishing...just don’t care for freshwater trout. But saltwater fishing is another story...when blue crabs are running, I’ll pick crabs for hours to make a crab dish. I have shrimpers docking near my boat that sell me fresh shrimp for $1 lb...giant sheepshead nibble at my boat, which are “poor man’s grouper” in my book...and the salt water trout put fresh water rainbows and brook trout to shame, delicate taste and big and fat as pigs in ths St. John’s river by Jax. Fish with line, net, thrown spear and speargun if I can get to where the water is clear. One of my favorite meals is stingray!...once you figure out the trick of brining the meat to make “fake scallops” out of it’s wings. Restaurants get in trouble because they use stingray instead of scallops and people can’t tell the difference...I’ve surprised people by making dinner and telling them halfway through the meal that they’ve been eating stingray...and then had to show them the tail to prove it!
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