Mountain Lion

[FresnoHunter]

I was looking through "Traditional Bowhunter" mag recently, Dec/Jan
issue and at the end of an article pertaining to Mountain Lions on pg 35
was a small section on preparing this "under-appreciated delicacy".
I am just curious has any of the ol timers here, who hunted them in California back when it was legal, ever try it, or is it just something new.

[bucknut]

I've never tried it but I'd like to. I've heard the same thing about it being very tasty. Considering what they eat, I wouldn't doubt it.

[guess]

I don't know about mt lions,although I have heard thet they are good! but I have a friend that killed a leopard in africa he said the natives chicken fried the backstrap and it was awesome!

[Backcountry]

Rifleman says it's good (and made the point that the cats basically live on prime venison), and in2blacktail shot one with a bow in NV a couple years ago and he said it's pretty good too. I guess I'll have to try it for myself and try to keep an open mind.

in2blacktail's Nevada archery lion


I'm gonna have to give that a try! Way to go Brian!

Backcountry

[switch]

Sweet picture. I live in California and I'll never get the chance to blast one here. I sure would like to see what they taste like.


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[lxtrail]

taste like chicken. had to throw that out there

[smallblockfuelie]

I never even considered eating it ..... Danny, you had it?

[BGH831]

grass fed meat eater can't be bad. Better than wild hog I would think. But I have been told that all predatory animals are a bit foul in flavor? No experiance just tossing out a thought.

[GameTracker]

Nice kitty pic, just the way I like to see 'em ...dead.
I have yet to take one although I sure do see a lot of sign when in the field. As mentioned earlier, they may taste better than some hogs, (I've had some that were somewhat gamey) but with this being California and all...we'll never know.

Maybe you could tag a Bobcat and let us know how they taste??? Those pesky little housecats are legal here in liberalville.

[Backcountry]

Originally posted by GameTracker@Jan 21 2005, 10:32 PM
Maybe you could tag a Bobcat and let us know how they taste??? Those pesky little housecats are legal here in liberalville.

Along those same lines, I just read Stephan Ambrose's book "Undaunted Courage" which chronicles the Lewis and Clark expedition (great book!)... after buffalo, in 1805-1806 the food those guys most prefered way out in the boonies was dog. Yep, dog! Bought them or traded for them from the Indians and they ate a lot of them.

So, an adventerous fella could try a coyote and lets us know how it is...

Just a (sick) thought... Backcountry

[GameTracker]

Go back and look at in2's grin... you just can't put a monetary value on that. Reminds me of my grin after tagging some Nevada bunnies.

[GameTracker]

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I just read Stephan Ambrose's book "Undaunted Courage"[/b]

You just can't go wrong with Ambrose, I have read just about everything he has published. My uncle has his Phd. in History and worked under Ambrose as his T.A. at Johns Hopkins, his passing in Summer 2003 marked one of the very few times I have shed a tear for someone I have never met.

[pitdog]

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Maybe you could tag a Bobcat and let us know how they taste??? Those pesky little housecats are legal here in liberalville.[/b]

I had my first Bobcat backstraps last year. They taisted like pork (white meat).
PaulC made sausage with the rest of it and it was very good.

Don't bother with eating coyote, they're so bad Vultures won't touch em. Ants would rather eat scat than a coyote.

I ran a trap-line years ago with a buddy named "Trapper Joe" (Joe Wolf). After we skinned the Bobcats, Coyotes and foxes, we buried the carcasses. We would go back a few days later to find all of the Cats and foxes completely eaten and the yotes wouldn't even have a fly on em.

By the way, back then (1984'ish) Coyote pelts were drawing about $6 Lynxcat grade Bobcats were getting close to $300, Desert grade toms brought about $75, Grey fox about $25 and we trapped a couple badgers that I don't remember what they brought.

[gc4279]

I ate it once when I was realy young. I can't realy remember just what it tasted like but that I realy liked it. To be honest tho back then I loved anything that was considered wild game. It seems that everyone else liked it too though, except for the ones that couldn't get past the thought of it beeing a cat.

[Papa Load]

Better stick to eating the pink kitty meat.