Anybody ever eat a raccoon?

[Moving2thecountry]

Just wondering if it is eatable.  Personally, I don't like killing animals I don't eat, unless they are posing an immediate threat to safety or property.  My dog came face to face with a raccoon, once.  They just stared at each other--neither so much as growled.  So I let it go, called my dog back. 

But if they are tasty...

[HD]

Yep, I've ate um before....
They are a little greasey, but not bad.

I think I posted a recipe for um in a ground hog thread (cause you can use it for either or)

Hunter

[spear foot 1]

 We have them at the wild game feed annualy. Like hunterdown  said greasy but good if made in stew or choopped up and made in to gravy is also good.

[Mayfly]

Someone tried to feed me a raccoon once..... No way! Only in emergency would I do it. I think he made stew and loved it.

[GRIZ]

Yup and ya don't have to worry about it bein dry. Actually kinda has a sweet taste to it. Reminds me of bear.

[spear foot 1]

Yup and ya don't have to worry about it bein dry. Actually kinda has a sweet taste to it. Reminds me of bear.

   ...................beer      oh you said bear

[dakids]

Taste, and they aren't to hard to find and kill.

[jkcmj]

I can remember my great uncle Ed used to bring steaming hot tray heaping with raccoon meat right out of the smoke house.  We kids would gather around and eat it all... ate it occasionally at game feeds.  Always was passable.

[GRIZ]

Down south the fur isn't worth much with the market the way it is. Yet they still trap em. Some states allow the selling of carcasses for food. That is how they get money trappin them is the carcasses. Must be a decent demand for them but what they get I really don't know. I knew a man that trapped down there a few yrs back and told me he would sell them on the hoof in the parkin lot behind his apartment. Then the fur brought somethin too so he'd skin them as people bought em.