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Old 08-14-2025, 11:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 View Post
Do the Florida bear hunters eat their kills? I used to go hiking and the like around Rattlesnake Mountain in Reno, Nevada and went rattlesnake hunting once with B. B. kind of eventually caught onto my tactic of clumsy bumping into rocks thus making our hunt unsuccessful. He did have rattlesnake skins all over his bedroom in comparison to my probably Farrah Fawcett poster in mine. He did not invite me to anymore rattlesnake hunts. He did say that they taste like chicken.

I doubt if bear tastes like chicken.

B's brother kept on taking pieces of himself off in various hunting mishaps. You do not hunt carp with a machete unless you are very adept with one. He wasn't.
I doubt too many actually eat bear, rattlesnakes, wild grease/ ducks, or mourning doves. IMO sporting man just like to shoot them (don’t see sport in shooting bear, but that me). O some think they are Good Samaritan’s by giving the game meat to poor. IMO none of them remotely taste like chicken. I grew up poor and lot of wild game in season was on menu, I ate cause I was hungry. Neighbor down road use eat snapping turtle. He also said it tasted like chicken. No it didn’t. IMO that phrase used to get you to try it.