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Beaver meat shouldn't taste like castor if it was handled properly. If you have ever skinned beaver you know that the castor has a tendency to leak all over your work surface. A little goes a long way. When skinning beaver that I plan to eat, I will skin carefully around the cloaca and then secure it tightly with a nylon zip tie. This will prevent "leakage". I will then skin the animal, harvest the meat and put it away before opening up the beaver to harvest the castor glands. As you probably know, the castor is worth more than the pelt right now. Backstraps, in my opinion are the best cut on the animal. In a blind taste test, everybody I know prefers the beaver backstraps over venison. Enjoy your videos. Thank you for posting.
That makes sense. I didn't really notice any bad odor or taste. I think Adam is a little picky about his meat LOL. I'd eat it again, and take seconds :) I mentioned to him about the backstraps, so maybe next time we'll get a treat!!
The castor glands were intact until after the hind legs were removed. It was more of a mental thing then it was actual castor on the meat. The beaver was skinned and legs removed within 24 hrs of the beaver being trapped. But you are very right about being careful when cleaning any game for consumption. Do you do anything special with the backstraps?
I'll soak the backstraps in some salt water overnight in the fridge to draw out any extra blood. Especially if the animal was killed in a bodygrip trap. No so important I think if snared and dispatched with a firearm and allowed to bleed out. Coat with olive oil, salt, garlic powder and onto the grill. Like a lot of game, it can be quite chewy if grilled well done so prefer no more than medium rare. Slice into thin medalions after cooking. When removing backstraps I start below the scapula and work all the way down to include the meat on the hips and rump. Bon apeteet.
i most often soak my venison in salt water or milk too. Seems to tame it down some. As Chris said, i'm not a huge lover of wild game. Eat it for the fact that i shot it. Love to hunt though. cheers!!
Awesome video guys, thanks for that, we have no Beavers in New Zealand, thanks for showing us your part of the world, with best regards from New Zealand hunters.
god that looked so delicious. All of it. Some people wish they could eat beaver or turkey let alone have food. Calling it nastiness made me mad. We should be grateful for whatever food we have. Sometimes we forgot about how good we have it and take the little things for granted.
Great video. I had beaver tail stew once at a rendezvous years ago and it was wonderful. Don't know what your groundhog population is like up there but you should try that sometime. It's really good. Research how to clean one though first they have some glands that need to be removed carefully before preparing. Just a tip on cooking wild turkey it's better to ground cook it in a bed of cools while you fish and in two hours or so you've got a juicy tender meal. If you cook it again like you did next time leave it whole and beat it flat with a clean stone. Then cook it slow over coals pulled out of the fire.👍 The beaver you could put in your cook pot with a cup or two of water with lid on for an hour over coals then pull it out and lay on hot rock to finish it off. That should pull the gamey taste out. Can't wait for next video
I've always wanted to try beaver meat! Every time I cut up a beaver to feed my dog it tempts me to eat some. I've never actually caught a beaver myself, I just get them from trappers to feed my dog (and occasionally my mink too). So since I wasn't the one handling the the meat, I'm always nervous about eating it. You never know how long it laid around in the sun before they put it in the freezer....... Some day I'll catch my own beaver and then I will FOR SURE eat it, as I'm quite curious what that delicious looking dark meat tastes like. Muskrat is quite tasty, and raw beaver meat smells MUCH more appetizing than raw muskrat! So it makes me wonder if beaver is even better tasting than muskrat. I once had a mink who flushed beavers from their dens, but at the time I wasn't prepared to catch one as we used much smaller nets back then. Now we use bigger nets for catching muskrats, maybe I'll have a shot at catching a beaver if one of my mink ever flush another one. It would have to be a small beaver, and some pretty shallow water or I'm quite confident the beaver would easily escape!
Yes for sure! I hear you, that stuff can go bad really fast in the summer heat. Best to trap in the fall or even better, winter. That way you know what you're getting. Of all the wild meat, beaver is right up there! Go for it!
Yeah, the fur trappers trap in the winter and early spring, but down here in Utah there are some mighty warm spring or even winter days sometimes. Also, if they freeze the beaver before skinning, then leave it out in a warm place to thaw, you have no idea how fresh the meat really is. I'd prefer to eat something I handled myself, so I know how fresh and clean it is.
I will! I know he uses the carcass for baiting traps, but I'm sure he'd spare a few. I have another full beaver from a local trapper to do a big cook-out so I'll be doing that up soon. I'll ask him to keep a few tails.
i'de eat that beaver meat in a heartbeat just like anything else and that turkey too. it looked good to me! i like you canadians! i also like seeing all of you together on trips and i hope you all keep doing more together on film. adam craig: he's cool i like seeing him too! i enjoyed it and i thumbed it up - thx!
Beaver is good, despite Adam's reservations. He doesn't even like venison much, so you can't trust his word for anything LOL :) I'd say it's as good as any other meat I've had...so that says a lot.
No baiting here in kolorado. No spring bear hunts any more. the kalifornia tree huggers that moved here really effed up my home state. Glad to see you two having a great time.
I find with beaver over open fire , best I find is well seasoned with salt and pepper and very slow cook it and it does taste great with a few vegetables. Thanks for sharing guys.
got some really nice footage of the beaver swimming. I thought it was going to go up the trail i was standing on. There were lots of critters moving that day. 3 moose, 1 bear, 3 or 4 loons, an otter, and that beaver. Too bad we didn't catch any fish!! Look forward to the hunt.
I've never been a water trapper (leave that to my nephew, great trapper) but that may change this year! Like Meat Trapper has pointed out, there is a lot of meat on a beaver. We can't bait bears here, not use hounds. Makes it a dumb luck proposition. Good luck!
Exactly right. If you lived in the bush, it wouldn't be dumb luck because eventually you'd cross paths and then shoot it. But we have only so many open days for the season and finding a bear in our boreal forest is ridiculous. There is a lot of meat on a beaver, that's for sure.
I've had one 100 yards behind the house, regularly. Except, of course, during season! Big boar from his tracks. If I could only bait or put my Cur on his tracks.
I had road killed turkey once. I found it fresh on the road when I was living on the Omaha Indian Reservation. I could only eat one side of the turkey, because the other side was all bone splinters.
Really interesting. This spring beavers have more than doubled the size of the creek beside my house. I watched the beaver (huge) swim by my house today. Brian 76
i love seagulls think their rain dances are quite unique and clever i have 2 that dance on a lawn outside my flat they always amaze me how in sync its like the 2 eyes of the bush hunter from my perspective .They do it to bring worms to the surface.
Check out the Anthony Bourdain episode in Quebec where he eats a beaver slow cooked in a rich sauce of its own blood. Simple, rustic and looks amazing!
Eating Beaver eh? ;) ;) I just had some delicious Wild Turkey last night - doubled down on Jakes with a buddy of mine. Caught most of it on camera! Good stuff as usual man! Edit: I see you left the fat on there, I usually trim mine all off - found it has an almost sour taste to it. You notice that at all? Favorite cooking method is cut to nugget size, egg, flour, bread crumbs and fry with veggies - tastes like chicken!
So for me Trout Lilly is sweet like snap peas and you get yummy turkey fat haha. Might have just been some bad meat that didn't get cut out - I think it was a late season bird with some dirty marks and infections from getting beat up by the big guys. Yesterday's was clean and delicious though, I'll try the fat again - still have a tag left!
Oh and thanks by the way, my wife caught me watching ep12 of your beyond survival series last night, and asked why I was looking at videos of a hairy naked man feeling himself up. She didn't believe me when I said he was just complaining about eating fish.
I roasted a young beaver I shot last fall, just the rear from behind the front legs back. In a turkey roaster, with a package of onion soup mix poured into a can of chicken stock poured over it, a few other spices. I was delicious and people I fed it to said that you would be hard pressed to distinguish it from roast beef.
I honestly never tried beaver, but now you could send me some bear steaks or roast when you do the spring hunt lol. My grandmother was full Cherokee so have had it (small amounts tho lol ) it tends to be a little greasy but very good when she prepared it .
I'm sure she would do it more justice than me :) I did just pick up a Native cook book...but sadly they didn't include much game meat...mostly plant based. I'll have to find another source to help with beaver, venison, etc. I'm sure it's out there.
I do remember one thing she always did with game is soak in buttermilk a few hours to overnight, but unfortunately I did not pay as good of attention as I wish I had now,
Really enjoying your content. Have you by chance done a video about what type of camera gear, mic, post production you are using? I'm interested to know. Great content and great artistic eye! Scott.
Thanks bud. I use a sony AX53 and a gopro 4 silver (new this season, so haven't had it out much). I also have rode video mic pro, but it suffered pretty bad in this wind...but can't fault it, that wind was pretty brutal.
I paused the video where the comment was to boil the beaver. I double boil beaver with the water in the 2nd boil being hot ahead of time. (Otherwise I find the cooler water sets the beaver flavour.) The reason I boil it is to remove the fat, which holds the flavour. I find using my double boil method, the meat pulls like pork and tastes like beef. After process like that, I make pasta sauces to freeze and fry a little meat up for hot sammiches. Oh. And the hear, kidneys and liver are also all delicious. OK, back to the video...
In my experience - 1) bears have not liked old animal carcasses. They love cooking oil, sweets... 2) baiting is required to hunt bears in the bush as they will avoid you 99% of the time - it is not like the big cutovers on Vancouver Island or alpine meadows here.
I've had a lot of people say they will eat beaver carcass and it draws them in as a preferred food source. I hunted over a rotting moose head and it drew 3 in and they were all over the rotted head. It was pretty disgusting actually LOL I would guess there might be some variation in carcass performance :) I would agree that oil and sweets would be a pretty safe bet though!
Can you please look into Coltsfoot. It's one of the most abundant early growing edible plants in Quebec. However, apparently alkaloids make it toxic in quantity.
The Wooded Beardsman I've already eaten some flower tops and some tuber-root-rhizomes. Flowers are sweet and palatable, and the tubers are quite large and taste like potato when cooked. Assuming it's as nutritious as Dandelion, and as palatable and abundant as it is, If it wasn't toxic, it would be the Greatest wild edible. It actually tastes good and must have decent caloric value, Unfortunately it apparently Destroys the liver if eaten in quantity. Maybe it's worth looking into as a "last-ditch" survival edible.. Or a rare snack. I'm actually 140 pounds (15 years old) , and eating quite a bit (100 grams)(approx 45 cals.) had very little effect. I recommend doing your own research (UA-cam vids especially).
Thanks for you research! Stay safe though, we need people like you to push on with the next generation of survival! I'm not a big fan personally of last ditch survival. I've found that you can conserve a lot more calories if you just sit down and do nothing rather than push on with less than perfect edibles. I would aim more for finding those things in abundance but if out of season, then be less active. But that's only my 2 cents.
The Wooded Beardsman Haha, hope you weren't worried. I wouldn't really put myself in great danger, however, I like to try things firsthand. Anyways, I think last-ditch was the wrong term. We really need to expand our knowledge on these plants and how they can be prepared or how to deal with toxicity.(natives leeched toxins with water, destroyed toxins in cooking and boiling changes..etc) Most information is vague or unreliable in regards to wild edibles and similar stuff. It's all I can hope for someone to do the research and see if they find solutions. Anyways, thank you for the videos and the effort.
The turkey was by smell and texture. If the meat is still firm and not breaking apart with no odor, it's good. I don't know beaver too well, but I would assume the same. If you check your traps each day and the beaver sits in cold water overnight, it would keep fine. It's still cold at night in Northern Ontario so checking the weather forecast and keeping an eye on temperatures is key. I've let deer stay overnight before and they are okay. 5 Celcius or lower is the ideal temperature to prevent spoiling (refrigerator temps).
Love some road kill!! Lmao! Active beavers~~Can smell um~~Haaha! Never handled a beaver Chris? :))) Eat a beaver!! :)) Could have been a cat and it would be better than Water Lilly!! Cant wait to see the Hunt guys! Shoot strait Chris may your bolt fly true~~Or your bullet hit the money spot!! Cheers fellow Woodsmen!
Hahahahahaha your friend is giving lots of solution hahahahahahahha I blasts out laugh guess he miss mc Donald's then beaver hahaha e is very nervous the way he eats hahahaha I better eat beaver yummu
How would you recommend cooking it? A lot say to boil it first....do you remove the scent glands from the legs? The Meat Trapper showed this. I wonder how much it matters.
Crockpot for raccoon? sounds not bad I suppose. It was a while ago when I had it but I think we did it on the grill wrapped in foil. A old trapper I know cooked it up for us - we ended up ordering pizza that night lol
I'll bet one of those 20 lb butternut squash's slathered in butter & brown sugar would have made that beaver & turkey taste a whole lot better :-) LOL :-)
We generally plant around Mothers Day , , most times , , but it's still risky , , I may have to cover it with cloth if we get a late frost. . squash being such a quick sprouting plant , , I'll be keeping a close eye on the weather. . . Good luck back to you my friend :-)
If I was planting a field full , , as in a garden , , , I'd prolly wait a couple weeks , , and plant the other seeds you sent. . . the black beans and the white squash & punkins , , , ( where I had plenty of seeds ) , , the weather is a fickle thing , , isn't it ??? But where I have 'one seed' , , I'm going to plant it early and watch it very carefully , and care for it meticously well :-)
ive eaten ostrich, if i gave you ostrich meat and didnt tell you what it was, or even if i did, you'd swear it was beef steak, they taste exactly like beef.. emus too
Any of yall ever shoot more than one bear off of the same bait pile in the same season. Not like the same person shooting multiple bears but different people same bait same season?!?
lol. i sense you guys holding back a. lot kf dirty jokes filing this. like the entire time your biting your tounges from making inapropreiate comments or remarks.. lmfao.. salt n pepper would be nice.. so funny.
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Head over to Adam Craig Outdoors to see how he's doing the set up for Spring Bear. He'll have a few videos coming up showing the set up and baiting process and how he decided where to put the treestand. His channel: ua-cam.com/channels/uZwrIkADWzF-2CMmoRScZw.html
Beaver meat shouldn't taste like castor if it was handled properly. If you have ever skinned beaver you know that the castor has a tendency to leak all over your work surface. A little goes a long way. When skinning beaver that I plan to eat, I will skin carefully around the cloaca and then secure it tightly with a nylon zip tie. This will prevent "leakage". I will then skin the animal, harvest the meat and put it away before opening up the beaver to harvest the castor glands. As you probably know, the castor is worth more than the pelt right now. Backstraps, in my opinion are the best cut on the animal. In a blind taste test, everybody I know prefers the beaver backstraps over venison. Enjoy your videos. Thank you for posting.
That makes sense. I didn't really notice any bad odor or taste. I think Adam is a little picky about his meat LOL. I'd eat it again, and take seconds :)
I mentioned to him about the backstraps, so maybe next time we'll get a treat!!
The castor glands were intact until after the hind legs were removed. It was more of a mental thing then it was actual castor on the meat. The beaver was skinned and legs removed within 24 hrs of the beaver being trapped.
But you are very right about being careful when cleaning any game for consumption. Do you do anything special with the backstraps?
I'll soak the backstraps in some salt water overnight in the fridge to draw out any extra blood. Especially if the animal was killed in a bodygrip trap. No so important I think if snared and dispatched with a firearm and allowed to bleed out.
Coat with olive oil, salt, garlic powder and onto the grill. Like a lot of game, it can be quite chewy if grilled well done so prefer no more than medium rare. Slice into thin medalions after cooking. When removing backstraps I start below the scapula and work all the way down to include the meat on the hips and rump. Bon apeteet.
i most often soak my venison in salt water or milk too. Seems to tame it down some. As Chris said, i'm not a huge lover of wild game. Eat it for the fact that i shot it. Love to hunt though.
cheers!!
George Zustak great post.
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Awesome video guys, thanks for that, we have no Beavers in New Zealand, thanks for showing us your part of the world, with best regards from New Zealand hunters.
You're welcome! It's always nice seeing how other peopled do it around the world!
The shot of that beaver swimming was awesome. I'm excited to try some this fall. Thanks for sharing your experiment haha
Perfect timing and right on cue. I'm looking forward to checking out your latest video man! Looks like a beauty!
god that looked so delicious. All of it. Some people wish they could eat beaver or turkey let alone have food. Calling it nastiness made me mad. We should be grateful for whatever food we have. Sometimes we forgot about how good we have it and take the little things for granted.
We can always end up in a worst situation than we find ourselves!
It's all good to me. I prefer the dark meat on bird anyway! Thanks for the video brothers!
You're welcome!
I like your work very much. It's really wonderful!
Thanks ren!
Great video.
I had beaver tail stew once at a rendezvous years ago and it was wonderful.
Don't know what your groundhog population is like up there but you should try that sometime. It's really good. Research how to clean one though first they have some glands that need to be removed carefully before preparing.
Just a tip on cooking wild turkey it's better to ground cook it in a bed of cools while you fish and in two hours or so you've got a juicy tender meal. If you cook it again like you did next time leave it whole and beat it flat with a clean stone. Then cook it slow over coals pulled out of the fire.👍
The beaver you could put in your cook pot with a cup or two of water with lid on for an hour over coals then pull it out and lay on hot rock to finish it off. That should pull the gamey taste out.
Can't wait for next video
Nice! I'll have to try that!
The Wooded Beardsman great footage by the way
Such a nice property,.peaceful !
I've always wanted to try beaver meat! Every time I cut up a beaver to feed my dog it tempts me to eat some. I've never actually caught a beaver myself, I just get them from trappers to feed my dog (and occasionally my mink too). So since I wasn't the one handling the the meat, I'm always nervous about eating it. You never know how long it laid around in the sun before they put it in the freezer....... Some day I'll catch my own beaver and then I will FOR SURE eat it, as I'm quite curious what that delicious looking dark meat tastes like. Muskrat is quite tasty, and raw beaver meat smells MUCH more appetizing than raw muskrat! So it makes me wonder if beaver is even better tasting than muskrat. I once had a mink who flushed beavers from their dens, but at the time I wasn't prepared to catch one as we used much smaller nets back then. Now we use bigger nets for catching muskrats, maybe I'll have a shot at catching a beaver if one of my mink ever flush another one. It would have to be a small beaver, and some pretty shallow water or I'm quite confident the beaver would easily escape!
Yes for sure! I hear you, that stuff can go bad really fast in the summer heat. Best to trap in the fall or even better, winter. That way you know what you're getting. Of all the wild meat, beaver is right up there! Go for it!
Yeah, the fur trappers trap in the winter and early spring, but down here in Utah there are some mighty warm spring or even winter days sometimes. Also, if they freeze the beaver before skinning, then leave it out in a warm place to thaw, you have no idea how fresh the meat really is. I'd prefer to eat something I handled myself, so I know how fresh and clean it is.
Great video guys! Nothin' wrong with a little roadkill and beaver.
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Nothing wrong with that! However, you missed by far the best part - the tail. Ask Adam to give you (or me) the tails next season.
I will! I know he uses the carcass for baiting traps, but I'm sure he'd spare a few. I have another full beaver from a local trapper to do a big cook-out so I'll be doing that up soon. I'll ask him to keep a few tails.
nice day out in the woods, good video
Thanks Jake!
i'de eat that beaver meat in a heartbeat just like anything else and that turkey too. it looked good to me! i like you canadians! i also like seeing all of you together on trips and i hope you all keep doing more together on film. adam craig: he's cool i like seeing him too! i enjoyed it and i thumbed it up - thx!
Stand-up guy for sure. He's bailed out us a few times!!!
Trees, lakes ,meat and fire ... Dont get any better than that : )
Agreed!
Wild turkey and beaver.Looked tasty . I'm looking forward to cooking up some beaver next fall.
Beaver is good, despite Adam's reservations. He doesn't even like venison much, so you can't trust his word for anything LOL :)
I'd say it's as good as any other meat I've had...so that says a lot.
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No baiting here in kolorado. No spring bear hunts any more. the kalifornia tree huggers that moved here really effed up my home state. Glad to see you two having a great time.
They'll pay for it in other ways. Our spring bear hunt was cancelled for many years and now there are no moose. Go figure.
We already have areas like La Veta that are over ran with them.
I find with beaver over open fire , best I find is well seasoned with salt and pepper and very slow cook it and it does taste great with a few vegetables. Thanks for sharing guys.
I agree, it makes a great stew!
Nature in a nutshell. 2 boys who never ate beaver before, eating it for the first time, and they kept going back for more. APPROVED!
Hahaahah! Takes a bit to get used to, but dive right in there!!!!
got some really nice footage of the beaver swimming. I thought it was going to go up the trail i was standing on. There were lots of critters moving that day. 3 moose, 1 bear, 3 or 4 loons, an otter, and that beaver. Too bad we didn't catch any fish!!
Look forward to the hunt.
Yeah, shame about no fish. I think if we got there a bit earlier and spent the day, we could have figured them out!
no doubt. We really didn't put a whole lot of effort into it. lol
Too busy eat'n beaver!
I've never been a water trapper (leave that to my nephew, great trapper) but that may change this year! Like Meat Trapper has pointed out, there is a lot of meat on a beaver. We can't bait bears here, not use hounds. Makes it a dumb luck proposition. Good luck!
Exactly right. If you lived in the bush, it wouldn't be dumb luck because eventually you'd cross paths and then shoot it. But we have only so many open days for the season and finding a bear in our boreal forest is ridiculous. There is a lot of meat on a beaver, that's for sure.
I've had one 100 yards behind the house, regularly. Except, of course, during season! Big boar from his tracks. If I could only bait or put my Cur on his tracks.
great video brother, looking forward to the bear hunt and more videos. keep up the great work man, i love it.
Thanks, I'm looking forward to it too!
great shot on the beaver swimming! you got calm hands :)
Thanks man!
I had road killed turkey once. I found it fresh on the road when I was living on the Omaha Indian Reservation. I could only eat one side of the turkey, because the other side was all bone splinters.
Good thing you noticed...those bones are super sharp and can cut you up...not fun.
Yeah, I've had my hand cut by broken bones many times. I'd hate to get cut in the mouth!
Really interesting. This spring beavers have more than doubled the size of the creek beside my house. I watched the beaver (huge) swim by my house today. Brian 76
I was pretty surprised to find out that they can weight over 50 lbs! I would have never guessed.
After last night. my creek is now a river. Brian 76
Always good vids guys, wish I could camp out with people like you.
I can assure you that there are probably people near you with similar interests. Just have to track them down!
loving the Canadian jump knife you have woody!
Thanks :)
Only wild turkey that I've ever consumed came from a liquor store...Mixed with coke.
Lol both are good.
Lmao 😅
people need to change how they look at food because to me that looks awesome!!!!
I totally agree, it was fantastic!
you have been teaching me to change my view on survival ! and i am thankful ! keep up the great work my friend!
Good video always carry salt good meal beaver and turkey
That's not a bad idea!
Actually looks yummy. LoL.... Keep it going guys!
I eat beaver all the time, doesn't look like this tho 😂😂😂
Only if you keep it raw! LOL
The Wooded Beardsman. lmfao exactly
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qjmad...bet it don't smell like dat either! Hahaha...have to clean it before U eat it!
+kuljuarenot1 better to floss with lmao
i love seagulls think their rain dances are quite unique and clever i have 2 that dance on a lawn outside my flat they always amaze me how in sync its like the 2 eyes of the bush hunter from my perspective .They do it to bring worms to the surface.
That's cool, I never realized that!
yes they are very clever woods.
Check out the Anthony Bourdain episode in Quebec where he eats a beaver slow cooked in a rich sauce of its own blood. Simple, rustic and looks amazing!
That sounds amazing!
Eating Beaver eh? ;) ;) I just had some delicious Wild Turkey last night - doubled down on Jakes with a buddy of mine. Caught most of it on camera! Good stuff as usual man!
Edit: I see you left the fat on there, I usually trim mine all off - found it has an almost sour taste to it. You notice that at all? Favorite cooking method is cut to nugget size, egg, flour, bread crumbs and fry with veggies - tastes like chicken!
Good job man! I didn't notice that fat was sour at all. MMmmmm turkey nuggets :)
So for me Trout Lilly is sweet like snap peas and you get yummy turkey fat haha. Might have just been some bad meat that didn't get cut out - I think it was a late season bird with some dirty marks and infections from getting beat up by the big guys. Yesterday's was clean and delicious though, I'll try the fat again - still have a tag left!
I would advise trying ostrich, it's delicious. If you've eaten woodpigeon, it's rather similar to that.
I haven't tried either, but I would!
They're definitely among the tastiest of meats I've had, better than chicken or turkey by far.
FFS, if you aren't bringing cutlery at least make some chopsticks. I thought that guy was gonna starve to death with that one stick action.
LOL
Oh and thanks by the way, my wife caught me watching ep12 of your beyond survival series last night, and asked why I was looking at videos of a hairy naked man feeling himself up.
She didn't believe me when I said he was just complaining about eating fish.
@@brendo7363 did you get the " yeah yeah" reply lok
all you needed was one more stick to make it a chopstick
I subscribed. You do everything I love.great beard BTW.you are currently the only one iv subed to.
Thanks Carl.
I roasted a young beaver I shot last fall, just the rear from behind the front legs back.
In a turkey roaster, with a package of onion soup mix poured into a can of chicken stock poured over it, a few other spices. I was delicious and people I fed it to said that you would be hard pressed to distinguish it from roast beef.
Exactly right...BETTER than roast beef...MUCH BETTER.
I honestly never tried beaver, but now you could send me some bear steaks or roast when you do the spring hunt lol. My grandmother was full Cherokee so have had it (small amounts tho lol ) it tends to be a little greasy but very good when she prepared it .
I'm sure she would do it more justice than me :) I did just pick up a Native cook book...but sadly they didn't include much game meat...mostly plant based. I'll have to find another source to help with beaver, venison, etc. I'm sure it's out there.
I do remember one thing she always did with game is soak in buttermilk a few hours to overnight, but unfortunately I did not pay as good of attention as I wish I had now,
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Really enjoying your content. Have you by chance done a video about what type of camera gear, mic, post production you are using? I'm interested to know. Great content and great artistic eye! Scott.
Thanks bud. I use a sony AX53 and a gopro 4 silver (new this season, so haven't had it out much). I also have rode video mic pro, but it suffered pretty bad in this wind...but can't fault it, that wind was pretty brutal.
was that beaver thinking hey that smells like bob they are cooking good video
Must have, showed up on cue!
I paused the video where the comment was to boil the beaver. I double boil beaver with the water in the 2nd boil being hot ahead of time. (Otherwise I find the cooler water sets the beaver flavour.) The reason I boil it is to remove the fat, which holds the flavour. I find using my double boil method, the meat pulls like pork and tastes like beef. After process like that, I make pasta sauces to freeze and fry a little meat up for hot sammiches. Oh. And the hear, kidneys and liver are also all delicious. OK, back to the video...
Nice! I'll have to give that a try!!!
great new video
Thanks Katie! Nice to see you stopping in for a peak :)
I wish that the Fish and Game would let us bait for Bears.
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In my experience - 1) bears have not liked old animal carcasses. They love cooking oil, sweets... 2) baiting is required to hunt bears in the bush as they will avoid you 99% of the time - it is not like the big cutovers on Vancouver Island or alpine meadows here.
I've had a lot of people say they will eat beaver carcass and it draws them in as a preferred food source. I hunted over a rotting moose head and it drew 3 in and they were all over the rotted head. It was pretty disgusting actually LOL I would guess there might be some variation in carcass performance :) I would agree that oil and sweets would be a pretty safe bet though!
Can you please look into Coltsfoot. It's one of the most abundant early growing edible plants in Quebec. However, apparently alkaloids make it toxic in quantity.
Are you planning on eating it? www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/facts/coltsfoot.htm
The Wooded Beardsman I've already eaten some flower tops and some tuber-root-rhizomes. Flowers are sweet and palatable, and the tubers are quite large and taste like potato when cooked. Assuming it's as nutritious as Dandelion, and as palatable and abundant as it is, If it wasn't toxic, it would be the Greatest wild edible. It actually tastes good and must have decent caloric value, Unfortunately it apparently Destroys the liver if eaten in quantity. Maybe it's worth looking into as a "last-ditch" survival edible.. Or a rare snack. I'm actually 140 pounds (15 years old) , and eating quite a bit (100 grams)(approx 45 cals.) had very little effect. I recommend doing your own research (UA-cam vids especially).
Thanks for you research! Stay safe though, we need people like you to push on with the next generation of survival! I'm not a big fan personally of last ditch survival. I've found that you can conserve a lot more calories if you just sit down and do nothing rather than push on with less than perfect edibles. I would aim more for finding those things in abundance but if out of season, then be less active. But that's only my 2 cents.
The Wooded Beardsman Haha, hope you weren't worried. I wouldn't really put myself in great danger, however, I like to try things firsthand. Anyways, I think last-ditch was the wrong term. We really need to expand our knowledge on these plants and how they can be prepared or how to deal with toxicity.(natives leeched toxins with water, destroyed toxins in cooking and boiling changes..etc) Most information is vague or unreliable in regards to wild edibles and similar stuff. It's all I can hope for someone to do the research and see if they find solutions. Anyways, thank you for the videos and the effort.
Do you live canada?
Yup!
I really don't eat Beaver. Cause it is rarely bleed like I like. Good video.
How do you check that the turkey and the beaver is OK ? Thanks for the vid.
The turkey was by smell and texture. If the meat is still firm and not breaking apart with no odor, it's good. I don't know beaver too well, but I would assume the same. If you check your traps each day and the beaver sits in cold water overnight, it would keep fine. It's still cold at night in Northern Ontario so checking the weather forecast and keeping an eye on temperatures is key. I've let deer stay overnight before and they are okay. 5 Celcius or lower is the ideal temperature to prevent spoiling (refrigerator temps).
The Wooded Beardsman - thx a lot :)
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Salt pepper and sage 👍
Marvin McNeil I always gotta have a little garlic too
when u cut wood,why u use only 10"of your saw blade?
Maybe if you roasted it like the rabbits in previous videos Adam might like it more as it would be more cooked
I like how you showed a beaver while you were eating it's cousin
Wow so talented individuals
Yall need to check out the meat trapper - beaver to burgers
You should set up a school i for one would be one of your first students great video thank brother
Thanks man, maybe one day. It would to be pretty rugged though :)
we if you ever do i would like to take your course
I wanna come do a survival challenge with you guys lol
Who makes that roach belly knife ?
Hey W.B. do you guys worry or have to worry about giardia?
Yup, always boil or filter!
hay man love the videos, just wondering who makes that Canadian belt knife of yours
Trout and Bird: www.grohmannknives.com/index.php/products/outdoor/all-items/carbon-steel-2-trout-bird-knife-354-detail
wow thats a great looking knife, i might have to buy one of the in the near future
getting 4-5 inches of rain opening day of trout season.
Ours is already open, but I missed the opener being up North! But now more rain for tomorrow and the rest of the week :(
The Wooded Beardsman the biggest browns I ever caught was is weather like this. 24 inch 3 1/2 pounds caught 2 of them
Love some road kill!! Lmao! Active beavers~~Can smell um~~Haaha! Never handled a beaver Chris? :)))
Eat a beaver!! :)) Could have been a cat and it would be better than Water Lilly!! Cant wait to see the Hunt guys!
Shoot strait Chris may your bolt fly true~~Or your bullet hit the money spot!! Cheers fellow Woodsmen!
Thanks buddy!!!! Ask Adam about eating beaver lol
Did you season the meat?
Nope, just ate it as is. It was pretty good though!
Mustard is great with beaver meat.
:) I love beaver meat! It really is good, even better than roast beef.
I don't know if anybody else is having trouble with this but for some reason I can't click on Craig's UA-cam channel
Weird, all the links work for me. Try just looking it up on YT it's Adam Craig Outdoors. link: ua-cam.com/channels/uZwrIkADWzF-2CMmoRScZw.html
It's a toss up to eat beaver or road kill .... I think those noodles look appetizing though
Hahaha :)
Hahahahahaha your friend is giving lots of solution hahahahahahahha I blasts out laugh guess he miss mc Donald's then beaver hahaha e is very nervous the way he eats hahahaha I better eat beaver yummu
Nothing wrong with eating beaver, just dig in!!!
Citey boys
With beaver a spicy honey sauce or glaze
Yum!
Where in Canada are you located sir? I live in Michigan you are not too far from me.
Ontario, Canada.
I had road kill squirrel last summer and it was better than the one that was shot the previous summer.
Trying to catch a beaver myself
Beaver meat in turkey look good
If you ever get the chance, try beaver meat!
Remember, bears likk bees and beavers kill trees.
Is that wild pasta?
You know he hit that turkey...
I think black burnt food definitely can increase the ratio of causing the cancer.
How about your opinions for this?
It does, but so does everything else. I limit myself to what I consider "natural" campfire smoke can give you cancer too.
not a troll but saying we bait for fish and baiting for bear, are two totally different things. now chumming for fish might buy a better idea.
Fair enough :)
Not on such equal terms, them both
Beavers actually not bad, had it quite a bit. Raccoon on the other hand, didnt like that. Once was enough.
Hmmmm...and I've got one to try :) Thanks for the heads up!
How would you recommend cooking it? A lot say to boil it first....do you remove the scent glands from the legs? The Meat Trapper showed this. I wonder how much it matters.
Crockpot for raccoon? sounds not bad I suppose. It was a while ago when I had it but I think we did it on the grill wrapped in foil. A old trapper I know cooked it up for us - we ended up ordering pizza that night lol
I resemble that remark :)
Agreed lol
I'll bet one of those 20 lb butternut squash's slathered in butter & brown sugar would have made that beaver & turkey taste a whole lot better :-) LOL :-)
You got it! Squash is a great side dish to every wild meal...that's the plan anyway!
I'll be planting my one seed next week , , , looking forward to seeing how well it grows :-)
Good luck man! I have to wait another month or so. The ground has been titled rough, needs more though.
We generally plant around Mothers Day , , most times , , but it's still risky , , I may have to cover it with cloth if we get a late frost. . squash being such a quick sprouting plant , , I'll be keeping a close eye on the weather. . . Good luck back to you my friend :-)
If I was planting a field full , , as in a garden , , , I'd prolly wait a couple weeks , , and plant the other seeds you sent. . . the black beans and the white squash & punkins , , , ( where I had plenty of seeds ) , , the weather is a fickle thing , , isn't it ??? But where I have 'one seed' , , I'm going to plant it early and watch it very carefully , and care for it meticously well :-)
I don't get enough beaver.
can you make a possum pie and try it
I've only ever seen 1 possum in my life!
to be fair though, eat chicken, beef, or pork cooked without any seasonings, its not that great either without at least salt and pepper
ive eaten ostrich, if i gave you ostrich meat and didnt tell you what it was, or even if i did, you'd swear it was beef steak, they taste exactly like beef.. emus too
It's all about how you cook it! The rest is pure mental game!
Turkey is more of slow cooking bird.
Any of yall ever shoot more than one bear off of the same bait pile in the same season. Not like the same person shooting multiple bears but different people same bait same season?!?
Yes! We shot two small bears over the same bait once...different days.
lol. i sense you guys holding back a. lot kf dirty jokes filing this. like the entire time your biting your tounges from making inapropreiate comments or remarks.. lmfao.. salt n pepper would be nice.. so funny.
Is it delicious? 😂
For beaver....! :)
Hook is too bug for trout. Use smaller hook truth has small mouth. Power bait with garlic works the best.
I've caught a lot of small trout on those hooks!
"I'd trade a rainbow for a beaver......I'm sure you would pal....hahahah...ahahahah...ahah.......cough.......U serious or......."
but i have never had beaver !
well at least your not killing them while they are hibernating!
Hahahah! We'll have to go over that a bit if we manage to get a bear.
The Wooded Beardsman yes please do