jharrelson
Carson City, Nevada
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Never had Possum or Coon but I've eat squirrel and rabbit many times when I was growing up..
We ate them cut up and fried like you would fry chicken legs.
We ate them cooked in a stew just like beef stew except with squirrel and or rabbit meat
We ate them cooked with cornbread dumplings, just like chicken and dumplings.
The only time that Mammy ..(grandmother).. ever turned down a mess of squirrels or rabbits was if the hunter used a shotgun to shoot them...
Nobody liked picking out shotgun pellets while eating.. Only them dumb city slickers used a shotgun to hunt Rabbits and Squirrels..
A good hunter always used a 22 rifle for rabbit and squirrel hunting...
And a really ... really good hunter would just shoot the tail off of the squirrel ... because without their tail a squirrel will lose it's balance and fall out of the tree and break it's little neck ... thus none of the meat was destroyed by the bullet.
And when hunting rabbits, a really good hunter will shoot off one of the rabbit's ears ... because with just one ear,the rabbit can only hear from one direction and that would make him run around in circles until he dropped dead of a heart attack... and once again the meat was not hurt by a bullet..
Honest to Pete.... if I'm lying, I'm dying.. 
"T.P.F.I.C"
John
John Harrelson
Carson City, Nevada
fulltime since 1977
93 Ford 350 4wd Diesel
95 Prowler 30.5 ft 5th wheel w/slide
TWO CENTS WORTH
The story goes that a man died and was approached by the Devil who told him that he could buy his soul back for a dollar. The man searched his pockets and could only come up with 98 cent. While begging the Devil to forget the two cent he was short, an Angel happened by and hearing the Devil laughing, asked the man, "Would you mind if I put in my two cents ?" The Devil got so mad that he exploded in a puff of smoke and the man's soul was saved.
The moral: Sometimes putting in your two cents worth makes a difference.
JOHN "the cook" 1997
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