Anyone eaten fox? (just asking)

[headspace]

I can tell you that I would sooner dig up a funnel web, skin it and eat it than gnaw on a fox. Having skinned heaps of them I can tell you that about the only animal that may have a go at a dead fox may be a goanna, although a pig isn't fussy. I've never seen a crow on a road kill fox either and they aren't fussy.

[on_one_wheel]

Eat a fox! .... Bllllluuuuuurrrrrrkkkkkk, I just spewed up everywhere just thinking about it!

I would rather drink my own fermented urine from a decomposing snake skin water bag than eat a fox!

[headspace]

Eat a fox! .... Bllllluuuuuurrrrrrkkkkkk, I just spewed up everywhere just thinking about it!

I would rather drink my own fermented urine from a decomposing snake skin water bag than eat a fox!

That's a viable alternative!

[mahna]

Eat a fox! .... Bllllluuuuuurrrrrrkkkkkk, I just spewed up everywhere just thinking about it!

So I'll put you down in the 'no' column then...

[Supporter]

Probably doesn't taste great, but it's all just meat I guess?

I suppose it would keep you alive.

Beyond that I'm saying no.

[RealNick]

I suppose it would keep you alive.

I think I might just lay down in the field and wait to go instead

[1290]

I've just trapped a little vixen, so if you wants to try I could send it over..... yum yum

[mahna]

I'm sure I'll get by without it

[1290]

I'm sure I'll get by without it

Sure?

Foxy loxy was not too happy about the situation...

[AaronMulligan]

I have never tried it myself and I guess I wouldn't mind. The smell of it when preparing is just really not good.

[1290]

When approaching this trapped fox.... from about 5m I started smelling the stench. Skinning increases the stench. You can NOT eat it.

[whert]

More than "not good" Aaron.

"Too bad" is more like it I reckon

[VICHunter]

Man up Whert

Yeeeeaaaaah! Grrrrr!

[Oldbloke]

I wonder if the "fox" smell is a defense mechanism that has evolved through natural selection to prevent other animals predating on them? Much like spines on a cactus. Edit: or a skunk

[1290]

I wonder if the "fox" smell is a defense mechanism that has evolved through natural selection to prevent other animals predating on them? Much like spines on a cactus. Edit: or a skunk

Could be.

Hormonal or gland excretion?

[bunnybuster]

Wow. I guess if your hungry enough, i'm sure our forefathers in the war had to chow down some pretty hideous stuff

My father was a POW from '42- '45 and anything that flew,walked or crawled through the wire went in the pot,as well as grass and other vegetation,.

Be Safe BB.

[Humir]

My father was a POW from '42- '45 and anything that flew,walked or crawled through the wire went in the pot,as well as grass and other vegetation.

You do what you've gotta do.

I have a couple of mates who went backpacking through places like Laos, Thailand, Vietnam etc. including the really poor places.

Spiders, grasshoppers, bugs, anything with protein... All fair game.

[Lorgar]

I saw some stuff ages ago on a show that said they were looking at various bugs to combat a lot of world hunger.

Breeding them by the millions is easy, doesn't take any resources, protein like you said...

Might be the food of the future.

[1290]

I watched a report, could have been 60mins, where the kids hunted spiders, I think they were Tarantulas, they would then bbq them and eat them as it was thee ONLY source of protein.... almost brought a tears to my eyes to think the kids are that desperate(especially considering the $$$ the world has been pumping into the developing world for years....

I think eating insects, or Fox or dog or cat is just that - sheer desperation. This BS about adopting an insect diet as they are a great source of protein... just another extremist environmentalist ploy to reduce or stop us farming livestock "to save ourselves from ourselves, before the globe is destroyed by flatulent cows...

I'll keep my bovine/ovine/piscine/porcine diet. Thanks.

[Westy]

When approaching this trapped fox.... from about 5m I started smelling the stench. Skinning increases the stench. You can NOT eat it.

Now are you sure it was the fox that was stinkink up the place?

[Varmtr]

I wish I could find a photo I took of a fox I shot that was having breakfast on a fox I shot the night before hanging on the fence.

But back to the OP. Yes I have meet a guy who has eaten fox and been spotlighting with him, he was on the old Shooting Australia forum before it got shut down. He did tell me that he did like it, not sure on his cooking style. I wont mention his name.

But who here eats wild pig or croc they eat bloody anything and everything. So I supposed it depends on how it's cooked.

For me fox ummm no, I'll just hydraulic them with the 22-250.

[1290]

Now are you sure it was the fox that was stinkink up the place?

I dunno... It was shower week

[Swarm]

I dunno... It was shower week

Every week? Well... Someone's fancy

[Kelix]

But who here eats wild pig or croc they eat bloody anything and everything. So I supposed it depends on how it's cooked.

I've had croc few times. Tasted Ok to me.

Dunno if it was wild or farmed? Dunno how they do crocs for food...

Probably wild?

[1290]

I've had croc few times. Tasted Ok to me.

Dunno if it was wild or farmed? Dunno how they do crocs for food...

Probably wild?

Must have tasted like chicken... Isn't that what farmed croc are fed?

No way wild - There's no wild harvesting allowed here, only culling when they take a human to show that 'they' are keeping the places safe

Like roo shooting in Vic.... not fit for human consumption apparently, they prefer we feed our kids Maccas... and preservative enriched food in a bag

[Press]

Like roo shooting in Vic.... not fit for human consumption apparently, they prefer we feed our kids Maccas... and preservative enriched food in a bag

That's because the roo have been outside and stuff. "Gross"...