Delicious if they're not blown to pieces. You can kill them with a light shotgun, a .410 or a .22. A .410 is easier, of course, with the scatter-blast, but it ends up with lead in the little bugger. A .22 is much better, but then you need to be a better shot. You don't want anything bigger, because it'll blow it to pieces and you wont have anything left to eat.

It was a big delicacy in our house (not the stew, just fried squirrel). We had it 2 or 3 times a month. God I loved it. Rabbits, too.

My mom never made the stew my friend's mom made.

On the downside, I never had chinese or thai or vietnamese or indian or south american food when I was a kid. In fact, the only "mexican" food we ate was tacos and we never tried that till I was in high school. (A friend from texas came to visit.)

But I tell ya - every kid in my vicinity in the lunchroom envied my moose summer sausage sandwiches!

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