Wrong forum, but, yes. Adult ground hogs can be tough. Young ground hogs don't taste much different than squirrels or rabbits.

 

I've never eaten them but have heard that they're not too bad. If you think about it they should be good to eat.

 

I shot big adult and it was a very tender meat w a slight hint of sweet,IMO. Rolled in flower and pan fried. Taste better than rabbit.

http://www.wildliferecipes.net/game_recipes/Small_game_recipes/Woodchuck_recipes/index.asp
http://www.outdoor-michigan.com/Recipes/woodchuck_recipes.htm

 

My buddy's father loves to scarf down earth pigs big or small it dont matter... lmao!

 

Lololol.....

Earth pig!

That's hilarious

 

Look up nutria rat recipes any of these work good on ground hog

 

We need to get together and have a beer, big bone hunter......wow your name makes this a really awkward statement.

 

And why is that?

P.S.
Thanks for all the answers!

 

Ate teddy bears twice. First one was a young one cooked on a stick over campfire like you see in movies. Not bad. Next one was an old one shot late fall, fattened up for winter, tried frying it but was very tough and gamey. If you do try it make sure you remove all the yellow fat.

 

My Grandfather ate a lot of them and I liked them also. A coup,e ways he cooked them, clean well and then boil for about 30 minutes with onions. Remove and then marinade for 24-48 hours in your choice marinade, then grill like chicken.


#2. Boil 30 minutes and then put in crock pot with onions, hot sauce, and BBQ sauce. Cook at least 8 hours, he would then slice a big piece of onion and put this on white bread and make a sandwich. He grew up on a farm during the depression with 6 brothers and 3 sisters. They ate everything, he still loves snapping turtle and swears they ate opossum. When they could find one. He also cooks ***** like the first I gave you.

 

My great grandparents ate them but I won't. My buddy puts them in a smoker and my dad tasted it and said it was good. I prefer to just use the carcass to plug the hole.

 

Once, and never again!

 

I never eat one, but I did have a one for a pet kept it for several years .. You wont find any animal that's cleaner than a ground hog. Its favorite food was bananas. I'll look and see it I can find some pic's

 

It would be a cool pet but man I wouldn't want it to get mad at me. I have seen them in action and they can do some damage.

 

Would you upchuck if your name was Chuck and you ate a woodchuck?

tastes like squirrel....tough but edible

PETA...People Eating Tasty Animals.....

 

You could always cook it with a brick and when the brick is cooked throw the woodchuck away

 

Groundhog is delicious. You just have to stew the big ones in a crockpot. I promise the way I make it would be the most tender meat you ever had. My son ate groundhog when he was 7 months old and obviously he didn't have teeth

 

ground hog is really good

 

jpk84
Can I have your recipe?

 

My grandparents ate any sized groundhog. they always baked them in the oven with sweet potatoes. I never tasted groundhog because the turn off for me was when my grandparents cooked one, it was cooked with the head still on it and when it was done, grandpa would crack open the head and start with the brain. Possum and **** were cooked the same way.
When I used to shoot groundhogs on a regular basis, there was never a shortage of people that I could give them to.

 

They don't taste bad. They have some glands or fat under their front arms you have to get off the meat. if you pull all the legs off and cook them like that, it's fine to eat. I had no complaints about it. I just have a hard time getting over what I'm eating, since they're so gross looking and to handle.

 

I killed one when I was a kid (45 yrs ago)and took it home with the intentions of cooking and eating it. My mother saw me skinning it and asked what I was going to do with it. I responded that I was going to cook it and it it. Her response was and I quote "not in this house you're not". That was my last attempt.

This thread has, however, revived my repressed desire to eat a whistle pig.

 

Dont think i could bring myself to eat one.