partridge,ducks,geese,moose,deer and the odd black bear if he should get a little to close for comfort and i fish freshwater as often as possible.

would post some pics of some of my successful hunts but files are to big to upload

i should add timber wolves and coyotes(only if they get a little to brave)-i actually have a den of coyotes behind my house somewhere and they don't seem to bother anyone but hey sure are loud and can make your spine tingle when they are howling and u know they are right there but u can't see them

btw-i saved the pic of the smiley with the gun and i resent the fact that it is labelled "violent-smiley"

i relabelled it as "shooting smiley"

I haven't seen anyone get a bear since I was a kid. I do remember the taste of fresh venison and the process of skinning the deer. Rabbit was the best of them all. It does taste like chicken.

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partridge,ducks,geese,moose,deer and the odd black bear if he should get a little to close for comfort and i fish freshwater as often as possible.

would post some pics of some of my successful hunts but files are to big to upload

i should add timber wolves and coyotes(only if they get a little to brave)-i actually have a den of coyotes behind my house somewhere and they don't seem to bother anyone but hey sure are loud and can make your spine tingle when they are howling and u know they are right there but u can't see them

How about taxidermy? Got anything stuffed and hanging over the mantle piece?

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Venison has too be cooked just right or else it twangs.

I have had when it tastes just like Pot roast and you couldn't tell a difference.

I hear frog legs and rattle snake both taste like chicken too.

My labrador killed a possum in the back yard last week.
I can't believe anyone would eat something that ugly.
Looks like a overgrown rat

I've had frogs legs, they are good ... like chicken? Eh!

The last time I had game, it was wild boar. I know what you mean by "twang" (could barely finish it)!

Someday, in the not-too-distant future, this stuff may be all we've got.

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btw-i saved the pic of the smiley with the gun and i resent the fact that it is labelled "violent-smiley"

i relabelled it as "shooting smiley"

Here's another one for you.

Ive been bass fishin on lake fork
like to hunt, dont get to go much
goin turkey hunting this fall
maybe deer too if I got the money
Ive hunted rabbit, squirell, and duck
but to be honest, I went "deer hunting" one time but it turned into beer drinking and plinking off the cans

Yeah,
I must say I'm a fan of both of these sports.
Having said that, I'm probably more of a fisherman than a hunter these days.

For one thing, it's getting harder to get access to land to hunt on over here.
What land that hasn't been "ear-marked" for trampers (ie: no firearms), is too damn dangerous to traverse.

Even owning firearms has got a lot more expensive since I first started hunting when I was 14, using my grand-fathers rifles.
A firearms licence only cost $45 back then, when we all got the "life-time licence" in 1993, it cost $75, mine is due to expire next year and it will cost me $123.75, for a 10 year licence (that's if they don't change it to a 5 year licence, as has been mentioned here).

On the fishing side of things, I quite regularly head down to the beach early on a Saturday morning (work permitting) and see what I can haul up.
I'll never take more than a couple of fish at once anyway, anything else is just greedy.

You are usually down there by yourself, which is good because it's nice and quiet and you are able to think straight, my phone stays at home when I'm at the beach.
Best thing about surf-casting here, is you don't need a licence, so as long as you've got all the basic gear, it's free!

Went fishing this afternoon and hauled in a couple of decent sized sharks.
A lot of people say that shark meat is poisonous or is full of mercury, these sorts of comments are totally unfounded.
Actually the default type of fish that most fish and chip shops use is shark.

Best thing about sharks is, you don't have to fillet them.
There's actually a surprising amount of meat on a shark, there's two of them in my freezer as I speak.

You caught a shark? That's pretty cool.

The most I ever caught was trout and that was like 6 years ago with my father. lol

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Went fishing this afternoon and hauled in a couple of decent sized sharks.
A lot of people say that shark meat is poisonous or is full of mercury, these sorts of comments are totally unfounded.
Actually the default type of fish that most fish and chip shops use is shark.

Best thing about sharks is, you don't have to fillet them.
There's actually a surprising amount of meat on a shark, there's two of them in my freezer as I speak.

Shark eh? Sounds interresting. I wonder how shark meat tastes for it is at best in the Netherlands to find shark meat.

Nyrah Ghost,
Shark meat has a flavour all of it's own, it sort of has a slightly sweet taste, but not as sweet as say crab or lobster meat,
It's also very similar in texture to crab meat, provided it's cooked properly.

One thing you can do with shark meat (and indeed most fish) is make a salad out of it with lemon juice as part of the sauce, the lemon juice will actually cook the shark meat.
A fair bit of Polynesian cuisine is based upon this concept.
It's also pretty good wrapped up in some aluminium foil with some herbs and a chopped onion and thrown either on a fire or on the BBQ.
Personally I like mine battered (with a coating of egg yolk, then into some white flour, back into the yolk and then the flour again) and then into a hot pan with vegetable oil, couple of minutes on each side, done.
Nice with some home-made wedges and some tartare sauce.

{Edit: however though, don't for God sakes ever over-cook shark, it will turn from perfectly edible to shoe leather in a matter of seconds if you don't keep your eye on it.
I can't honestly see why shark isn't eaten more, it's good stuff}

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Went fishing this afternoon and hauled in a couple of decent sized sharks.
A lot of people say that shark meat is poisonous or is full of mercury, these sorts of comments are totally unfounded.
Actually the default type of fish that most fish and chip shops use is shark.

What kind of sharks are these? I think fishing sharks is actually illegal, they're protected and endangered species.

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What kind of sharks are these? I think fishing sharks is actually illegal, they're protected and endangered species.

Seven gillers.
Sharks aren't protected here and as far as I'm aware, only the Great white shark (no not Greg Norman), is protected in Aussie, we don't get them here, the water is too cold.