I’ll second that.

I would like to put forth a challenge. I reside in Wayne Co Ohio. Albeit there are some Coyote around I have limited grounds on which to trap. If anyone in proximity can provide a FRESH yote, I will eat it and report here of the experience. I will eat just about anything as I am not skerred lol. Proper care has a lot to do with it.

I had a market a few years ago for beaver meat to local mexicans . I gave a couple to a neighbor lady that had married a mexican that worked at a local tortilla chip plant .she came back and wanted two more so i said $5 apiece. Then the next week she wanted five . And the next week she wanted five more.
Come to find out she was making tamales and selling them to the workers at the chip plant where they both worked . They were a huge hit .she bought five a week for a few weeks. Then her husband took al the money they had saved up and went back to mexico and married a woman down there . She quit the chip plant and the tamales and didnt want anything to do with mexicans anymore i never could cultivate a connection with the local mexicans again for beaver i could sell them butcher hogs and a few would take a beaver if offered but never could get it where i could sell numbers. then the otter market crashed and i quit trying . Moral of this story is it sure dosnt hurt to give mexicans some beaver meats they lnow what they are and know what to do with them If i had kept catching beaver like i had been and kept spreading them through their community Im fairly certain i could of got a really good market going again

Catch you might want to fire up your grill. I'll bet you will get more offers than you can eat!
I would come down and try it with ya (Sandusky Co.) but I AM skerred

Soak it in cider and enjoy . Never ate one b4 probably not GNA try either

Smoked 30 Coyote loins last year at the MTA Convention in Barnum. About 150 people tasted them and said they would eat it again. Tasted like Ribeye Chislics! We told them what is was before they took any also, to be honest with them. All were fresh killed and skinned right away, with loins cut out and cleaned.

Not true. I try not to eat anything that eats meat.

Can't lump all divers as fish eaters...Mergansers or saw bills diets are primarily fish. Goldeneyes and old squaws like mollusks. But other divers like canvasbacks and redheads eat mostly aquatic plants. They are some of the best ducks for the table. Bluebills or scaup are divers that eat plants and mollusks and the ones that have been loading up on veggies are very good eating.

If it has its eyes on the side of its head (prey) and not on the front of its face (predators like us) its good to eat..

Was at a national convention once, and a fella had coyote salami and crackers at his booth. Tasted good, but then salami made out of anything tastes good! Never had bad salami! As for the beaver Larry, iv'e eat a lot of and never had bad,except when the castor wasn't handled right. The old ones aren't as good as the two year olds. Smells gamey when you cook it, like a lot of wild meats.

You haven't tried bobcat, lion or bear then. All three are very good eats.

Lee, I'm glad to hear that bobcat is good eating. If I get one this year I'm definitely going to try it.

I'm also interested in trying a coon. Of course a mountain coon, not a trash dump coon. I heard somewhere that they're good. I was thinking about throwing one in my smoker.

Anyone ever try coon?

I've had bbq'd coon b4. It's pretty darn good

Coon we trim off the fat we can get easy then boil until they pull off the bone .skim the fat off the water (this is a very important step ) .Then pull the meat off the bone and use like prepare like bbq beef or pulled pork.
If you have a big pot you can cook several at a time freeze the pulled meat. In meal size quantities

One of the demos this weekend at the NC convention was wild game cooking. Our cook, Muddawg, rendered the fat of one medium sized coon and ended up with about 2/3 of a quart of cooking oil and a couple of cups of delicious cracklins. He then used the oil to fry up some bobcat hind quarter steaks for the attendees to sample. They all got gone quick, fast and in a hurry!

Muddawg has been posting wild game recipes on the NC Trapper Forum for several years. This is the first year that I scheduled him to do a demo and he brought Cooking with Muddawg to the convention. Based on the interest and reception it got, it will not be the last time. I have already asked him to plan to do it again next year with a couple of different species.

And I whole heartedly agree with Lee on bobcat and bear being excellent table fare. I have not had the opportunity to try lion but understand it is great as well.

WOW, that is awesome! I'm going to have to look him up for some recipes and directions on how to's.