After the cold weather in South Florida about a week or 10 days ago, Iguanas were literally falling out of the trees by the hundreds, they are an invasive species in South Florida, they undermine the shorelines of canals and can tear up golf courses, the supply of Iguana meat was in abundance.
If you want to see how they hunt Iguanas in normal times, look up the Python Hunter on YouTube.
He gets paid by the State to hunt pythons and by private businesses to get iguanas off the golf courses and other places.
He uses a dog to retrieve the iguanas after he shoots them with an Air Rifle, he’s got a pretty neat setup with the air rifle.
If you are totally interested, he will take customers on python and iguana hunts.
“He gets paid by the State to hunt pythons and by private businesses to get iguanas off the golf courses and other places.”
I love to see the Kondo Karens come out and jump in his business and call the cops on him. They freak out over his ‘assault weapon’.
Iguana and Python are both good eatin. The Mexicans make tamales out of them and Python grinds up like chicken or alligator meat into fine paddies , course sausage or links. Iguana also grills or stews up nicely in the bone. My Florida crew shoots them with 22 cal air rifles right out of the trees from the canals they live on. Suppressed air rifles are nearly silent and the neighbors cheer us on because the little monsters eat their gardens to death.
Python can have heavy metals due to bioaccumulation it’s best to eat the smaller ones and trash the big boys they are invasive so no harm in that.
Ask a Cajun to cook you up some reptile they have all the recipes for it already. Reptile meat is reptile meat, be gators or tree dinos or snakes.
We Texas boys eat rattlesnakes all the time. You can get it at lonesome dove bistro in the stockyards in Cowtown. They do it fired or as rattlesnake and rabbit sausage links.