So much for staying on the original :nono:topic!

They started it!

I think I've used that phrase a time or two in the past. Murphy, see what you started:rotf:

I can't play anymore tonight boys, I've gotta head home and fry some pork chops.

DLH

Richard, I took the Northwestern School of Taxidermy course by mail too - late fifties or very early sixties. I still have the catalogs and training stuff from Mr. Elwood.

Dean:

I took the Northwest course! Pretty heady stuff for an early teen... I also bought the Touchstone course as well.

I wonder if there are internet taxidermy courses available now? <g>


Glenn

Destry: I try not to travel in circles if I can help it.

Best Regards, George

I KNEW that there just had to be be some others here who took that taxidermy course as I did. Not that I got very far with it. I think I stuck the body into that coon backwards and didn't realize it for some time. I just never looked right... I did a hawk that committed suicide on our outside house wall also; that turned out better. Let's see; how to tie this thread all together.... I think that Dean and Bill Murphy were standing at a taxidermy table at the Baltimore gun show looking at a stuffed muskrat mounted on a cookbook base when he spotted a nice used leather comb raiser pad sitting in a scrappy cardboard box that...... (someone else can finish it)....

....that was right next to the crockpot filled with a possum stuffed with cabbage and sweet potatoes.....someone want to take it from here?....

And plenty of beef jerky for those timid souls that are not quite ready for the possum and muskrat..:rotf:

Roger,you really think that's beef in the jerky sticks? It's all possom, muskrat and coon! Road kill of course ,that's how it gets pressed so thin. Next time you hit a gritty part spit in out cause it's sand and gravel from the road. And it is..... all Murphy's fault!:)

Okay,okay, I'm not responsible, but I did add to this thing, early on. I went to the Elliott Island Muskrat Dinner at the Methodist Church sponcered by the Elliott Island Volunteer Fire Department. It was advertised far and wide, in several newspapers, radio, and tv, from 1:00-5:00. I got there at 2:00 and had a pleasant meal with about twenty people present. The lady tending the buffet pointed to five pans of meat. First was fried chicken, then fried muskrat, stewed muskrat, deep-fried muskrat, and barbequed muskcrat. I'm adventurous, so I tried them all. Best I can tell you is, "they make some really good fried chicken"!!!!

:biglaugh: I've been following this thread, and you guys crack me up..I think I'll stick with the chicken

I've got a pair of grey squirrels thawing out for supper tomorrow.

Parboil for five minutes, dredge in flour/salt/pepper mixture, then fry slow in bacon grease until golden brown. Fried potatoes and yellow hominy on the side with skillet gravy and biscuits to compliment. Apple butter on leftover biscuits for dessert. Sweet tea to drink of course.

I've got a few pork neck bones to steam in some sour kraut this weekend. I usually have stewed potatoes and pork 'n beans with this meal. You boys eat what you like and I'll eat what I like......


DLH