Tree Rat “Carnitas” Tacos! Squirrel Hunt! (Catch, Clean, Cook)

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  • @michelleortman
    @michelleortman Год назад +13

    Those look DELICIOUS!! My hubby has made squirrel adobo and it is soooo good! This would be fun to try! Kudos to your lady for being out there and giving it a shot!

  • @juanmosqueda896
    @juanmosqueda896 Год назад +4

    Folks, new to your channel as followed over from Blue Gabe. Love the content , the family togetherness and the tips. This squirrel video reminded me how three teenaged boys used a 410 and .22 to hunt squirrels in the Texas river bottoms 40 years ago.The third boy was our retriever. Grandma cooked squirrel in dumplings, carnitas, stewed, and pulled bbq with some added rabbit. With fresh hand made corn tortillas and salsa we always had full bellys.
    Thanks for doing this. Reminded me of a time when the world was kinder, kids could be kids and enjoy the outdoors and life was full of wonder and excitement in the woods.

  • @PSSKDerby
    @PSSKDerby Год назад +7

    Great video Tug! Probably something I’ll never eat, but you made it look delicious. Keep them coming

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад +2

      Thank you!

    • @blippacg
      @blippacg Год назад +2

      Nothing wrong with the taste. Haven't had them much but they go well with mac n' cheese.

  • @dauntewimbush1939
    @dauntewimbush1939 Год назад +3

    Love it man! Local Floridian here and love the cooking style videos. Keep it up

  • @dylanfuller9501
    @dylanfuller9501 Год назад +6

    Definitely need more videos like this, I think the variety is awesome!

  • @awwjr29
    @awwjr29 Год назад +3

    Been watching you content for the last week or so. Squirrel tacos is my secret camp recipe. Great video.

  • @mikehixson3246
    @mikehixson3246 Год назад +22

    Shot a couple of squirrels. My buddy at work never had one, so I abliged his request. His wife is from the Philippines and prepared them Adobo Style. We had them with steamed rice. Best squirrel I've ever eaten!

  • @arthurledezma9003
    @arthurledezma9003 Год назад +1

    Like your approach! Brown them up, then the oven and finally a little more pan action! That lime with the chicken stock must do wonders! Delicious sir! Thank you for sharing! God bless!!

  • @southstar8025
    @southstar8025 Год назад +4

    Great video. I’m going small game hunting next weekend and will definitely be trying this recipe, thanks!

  • @gradybrowning3976
    @gradybrowning3976 Год назад +6

    Carnitas sound killer, usually eat squirrel stewed with dumplings, or fried. But yours sounds delicious!

  • @datilman9146
    @datilman9146 Год назад +1

    I just subscribed about a month ago and it's so funny i was on RUclips looking up FWC hunting areas for squirrel and your video was the first thing to pop up. I live near Mayport. Awsome video bud!! Keep the coming...

  • @bigben9379
    @bigben9379 Год назад

    Fun and interesting from the woods to the table. I like how you folks had your bases covered with both shotgun and rifle.
    The cooking was creative and looked good.

  • @fewridge6479
    @fewridge6479 Год назад

    Greetings from South Alabama. I ran across you by accident but I always stop for a new squirrel recipe. I throughly enjoyed it.

  • @nathancole3872
    @nathancole3872 Год назад +2

    Keep the videos coming! I’m a Sta local and really like the videos!

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад +1

      Awesome! Thanks you! I got something really cool coming out soon

  • @nealcowell945
    @nealcowell945 Год назад

    So glad i found you on bluegabes video!! Keep the great videos coming brother!!

  • @craigortman4759
    @craigortman4759 Год назад +1

    Great video we loved it. Now adobo squirrel.
    Place squirrel in pressure cooker, crockpot, cover with 3/4 of water to 1/4 of vinegar. Add brown sugar to taste, I would say starting with about a quarter cup. Add in approximately half to 3/4 cup soy sauce. Bring cooker up to high heat for about 20 to 30 minutes. check your broth and add more brown sugar if you want, throw in potatoes and carrots, bring back to a boil for another 10 to 15 minutes to soften them and enjoy. you can do it in a Dutch oven too. You just need to let it simmer a little longer.

  • @mastergunnerysgt1258
    @mastergunnerysgt1258 Год назад +1

    Love the vid Tug. I have seen others on youtub clean squirrel, fast and easy. The same way that I clean them. I use traps in the area that I live in. Sum people feed them and make them fat, they are the city slickers. They are the ones who will not let me put traps around home. The others are fine with it. 12 traps, 3 days and 12 tasty squirrels. Old Master Gunnery SGT USMC. And I fix them in many different ways. And BTW 1 BB and 1 per beast.

  • @jaybo516
    @jaybo516 Год назад +1

    Cooked 5 of them the other day smothered in gravy. Then I made grits , chilled them on a cookie sheet to cut with a biscuit cutter . Then deep fried them . Once they were done........ smother your fried grit cakes with your squirrel & gravy ! Man oh man was it good !!

  • @rebeccacoffiel3866
    @rebeccacoffiel3866 Год назад +3

    My mom and dad ate squirrel all the time growing up but I’ve never tried it. I love your wife, she’s hilarious! This is a great video. Keep them coming!!!!

  • @aarongaskins1494
    @aarongaskins1494 Год назад

    Just stumbled across this. I've never commented on anything on RUclips but I had to with this. Great simple video man. I see you becoming one of the big channels. Keep it up. going to pop a few this weekend and use this exact recipe!

  • @TeamTwistedGaming-TTG
    @TeamTwistedGaming-TTG Год назад

    Love your videos have watched every single one, came from Bluegabe when you guys did the oysters. I see why the two of you are good friends. Keep the amazing videos up!

  • @Freedom2219
    @Freedom2219 Год назад

    Awesome video may the first video ever on squirrel 😀 tacos 🌮 😋

  • @easternncbigfoot1288
    @easternncbigfoot1288 Год назад +1

    Squirrel hunting brings back lots of good memories as about 80 percent of the time I hunted it was for squirrel growing up. I've had it just about every way you can prepare it just like Bubba Gumps shrimp lol. Great video man, it looks damn good.Also as I was writing this you said north east Florida, that's where I grew up. If I want on private land I was in Nassau WMA before thet broke it all up.

  • @someonewhocares5712
    @someonewhocares5712 Год назад +1

    Yeaaaaa tacos. Yummmm. Thanks for sharing 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

  • @rickylain9483
    @rickylain9483 Год назад +1

    Great video. I love squirrel meat so this is a new recipe for me. I bet you are also the cook on the Tug Boat.

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад

      Yes sir I cook for the crew when whenever I get a chance!

  • @stephenwallace5399
    @stephenwallace5399 Год назад

    Great hunt and I grow up hunting Northwest Florida area. Squirrel hunting was always just as fun to me as deer. Cooking was always fun to with everything you could pass it off as being,

  • @tommorgan5826
    @tommorgan5826 Год назад

    Hey, a wife that will carry your meat is a keeper! Awesome! Squirrel Tacos, never thought of that! My favorite is squirrel and dumplings!

  • @glennvanb3012
    @glennvanb3012 Год назад

    Man you made that look fun I used to squirrel hunt in Michigan but still I had fun watching you thanks

  • @sambo170a
    @sambo170a Год назад

    What a nice couple having fun Greetings from UK

  • @MAJJJJJJ
    @MAJJJJJJ Год назад

    Yeah man those tacos look great . good job guys. Oh and nice tree and good job to your camera girl

  • @TheMeyerWay
    @TheMeyerWay Год назад

    Just shared this on a hunting page. Someone was asking the best way to cook squirrel!!! I can’t wait to try this

  • @michaelenglish8004
    @michaelenglish8004 Год назад

    I enjoy your videos because y'all are genuine. Keep up the great work! 👍

  • @anguskd
    @anguskd Год назад +1

    Some great tips Tug! The idea of combining a shotgun and 22 is a game changer. (Going back to get your girl bug spray was a veteran move!) Definitely will try the recipe. Love the content keep it coming!

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад

      Thank you!!!

    • @randytrashcan
      @randytrashcan Год назад

      I've been taking a lightweight single shot 20ga and a PCP rifle in .22 when hunting. The rifle can be suppressed without the tax stamp, it's mouse fart quiet, and just as precise as any rimfire I've ever shot. It's nice to be able to swap out for the shotgun if I must, but I'll use the air rifle any time I can. It won't startle the other squirrels in the area like a gunshot does.

  • @raymaylone8563
    @raymaylone8563 Год назад

    Great stuff. 1st time watcher. Can’t wait to see field dressing them to see if I have done it right. If others can post field dressing a whitetail deer a squirrel should be no problem. It’s educational learning. Keep teaching!!!!!!!

  • @davidlyons6192
    @davidlyons6192 Год назад

    Awesome video. I love watching ones local to where I grew up :)

  • @Stan_L
    @Stan_L Год назад

    Great video! Thanks for sharing.

  • @soggybottomgoldprospecting3586

    Can’t wait to try this recipe I never thought of tree rat tacos. Hitting the sub button

  • @perrybutler5970
    @perrybutler5970 Год назад

    Ian, loved the video and love fried squirrel. When I get several my wife and I can them and it does not take long to prepare it later. Something else that I have found that is delicious is young raccoon. I flour it and fry it like rabbit. Thanks for sharing, my friend. PB

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад

      We actually saw a young raccoon and discussed inviting him home for dinner but decided to save that video for later! Thanks

  • @reapergrim76
    @reapergrim76 Год назад

    Awesome kitchen light! 👌

  • @chucksmith5002
    @chucksmith5002 Год назад

    I`m going to try that when Small Game comes around looks good thanks Tug and Wife enjoyed it.

  • @Bruno-ns7gm
    @Bruno-ns7gm 5 месяцев назад

    I used to bag 4 or 5 units a day when i was a kid. 20 gauge single shot and 22 lr repeater. I had the big woods to myself. Right out the back door. Less than a mile from ICW. I like it fried in bacon grease or smoked on the grill. If smoke i do fresh oysters on grill .
    As always much love and peace to the family. ❤️☮️❤️☮️❤️

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  5 месяцев назад +1

      Sounds like a hell of a childhood!

    • @Bruno-ns7gm
      @Bruno-ns7gm 5 месяцев назад

      @@TugTrashOutdoors where woods once stood
      is now a neighborhood
      totally a different view
      from the world that I once knew. 🌳🐿️🌳
      have a prosperous day !!!

  • @stevesproul3744
    @stevesproul3744 Год назад

    Just subscribed to your channel and love it brother. It’s funny I live close to huntchef and pretty good friends. He makes awesome products

  • @RiseOrRelinquish
    @RiseOrRelinquish Год назад

    Nice video. New to squirrel hunting here. Nice Boston as well. Looks just like mine

  • @jeremyscott6048
    @jeremyscott6048 Год назад

    I live in northern Canada hunting squirrels in the woods here often, mostly my woods are pine trees and sandy dirt. Your woods look like you could be on the set of avatar or something. It looks like a completely different planet. Crazy.

  • @4reelz9999
    @4reelz9999 Год назад

    Good video brother, we hunt fuzzy tails here in north Texas too. 👍👍

  • @keithselzer9816
    @keithselzer9816 8 месяцев назад

    That sure looked good. I grew up eating them. My mom would cook them like you did then make pot pie. And we would fry the young one's very tasty.

  • @reavisstockard2994
    @reavisstockard2994 Год назад +1

    Cool recipe , I made bourbon chicken of the tree the other day , obviously just squirrel with a bourbon chicken recipe.

  • @savageater57
    @savageater57 Год назад

    Great video, I tend to "snipe" squirrels where I hunt since all the leaves are gone after deer season and they can see you a long way off and either run or hide so shots may be out to 100yds . The wife likes that receipe since she's a fan of carnitas .

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад

      Awesome sniping is definitely more challenging

    • @savageater57
      @savageater57 Год назад

      I shot one far enough out , by the time I got there I was looking around for the squirrel and saw a bobcat running off with it .

  • @williamlittle2814
    @williamlittle2814 Год назад

    For the next time Tug,
    Pull all the meat onto a sheet pan, spray with olive oil and then broil them on high for a few minutes. Crispy
    Bits in minutes without another pan. You epitomize the song…A Country Boy can survive. Glad I found your channel. Keep it up.

  • @yesdeere1376
    @yesdeere1376 Год назад

    I love squirrel 👍🏻
    I have an old .22/410 over and under I use.

  • @harryhowell5644
    @harryhowell5644 Год назад

    My grandma would pressure cook fox squirrel, then serve it in a stew with wild rice.truely one of the best things I ever ate. We always just fried squirrel the day after Thanksgiving. We used a big deep fish fryer.

  • @jeffreylocke8808
    @jeffreylocke8808 Год назад +1

    Boil the squirrels after cleaning in salted water and do so till cooked. Remove and cool the squirrels. Remove the meat and then fry up in a skillet till brown. Fry some bacon and save the drippings to make gravy. Bake some biscuits and use the gravy made from bacon drippings and put the deboned squirrel into the gravy and simmer. Then put gravy and squirrel over split buttered biscuits.

  • @Tracy-Inches
    @Tracy-Inches Год назад

    Add your favorite hot sauce to your baja mix, and finely shave some purple cabbage as an additional topping! so good! I do that for my pork carnitas. and now I am making Squirrelnitas!

  • @dfrancois5520
    @dfrancois5520 Год назад

    I've had lots of squirrel, but never in a taco, those looked really good. We mostly hunt them with dogs, but I've also done plenty of still hunting too.

  • @Wewhoooooo
    @Wewhoooooo Год назад

    Lol didn’t keep watching hahahaha!!!! YES I SEE HOW TENDER IT IS

  • @gusdeleon3043
    @gusdeleon3043 Год назад

    Still on the fence about this but it sure looks good. Thanks for the vid!

  • @kentbaio4457
    @kentbaio4457 11 месяцев назад

    Looks perfect to me I'd love to try out your fish dip keep up the pleasure I know you're cuz I enjoy watching

  • @megamattoutdoors4590
    @megamattoutdoors4590 Год назад

    Awesome video man. Definitely worth a try. I've done it the same way but made gravy and served over rice.

  • @scotthilliard8406
    @scotthilliard8406 Год назад

    Should do a video on how RUclips has changed your life or made it better! People get paid for this and in this economy it can be a game changer. Love the videos.

  • @suttonsplash14
    @suttonsplash14 4 месяца назад

    Would have liked a little more on the review at the end there! Recipe looks fire 🔥🔥🔥

  • @brightbkh07
    @brightbkh07 Год назад

    I’ve tried to eat squirrels a couple different ways and I’m just not a huge fan. I will try this method and see if maybe it can make them taste good. Is there a gland or something you are supposed to cut out? The first video I saw about cleaning them said to remove a scent gland but I’m not sure if what I removed was a gland or not. They tasted too gamey for me. I’m from North East Florida too! Good ol Nassau County! Good video bro! I subscribed and plan to watch more.

  • @oceandeepfishing4555
    @oceandeepfishing4555 Год назад

    Well next time I get some squirrels I'm going to give this a try. I just got a cast iron pot like you used in this video. The couple times before when I cook them they were really tuff.
    I haven't hunted in about 15 years but getting stuff together for next season. Might do some hog hunting this year went today to get some 3030 bullets but everyone was sold out where I went.
    Enjoyed your video..

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад +1

      30-30 has been super hard to find! Thanks for watching

  • @stevehaut6494
    @stevehaut6494 Год назад

    It is great that your wife is part of your videos.

  • @michellemorgan6295
    @michellemorgan6295 Год назад

    Awesome thanks for the tips I like squirrel in brown gravy

  • @steveperry-d3q
    @steveperry-d3q Год назад

    Watching you hunt tree rats now we are at club now doing same we have on grill will try your way next GA

  • @matthoffman2411
    @matthoffman2411 Год назад

    Thanks for the awesome video.

  • @rickycaudill3773
    @rickycaudill3773 Год назад

    Great video! You are the type of guy I’d like to break bread with. Good recipe too!

  • @GHENGISJOHN2024BC
    @GHENGISJOHN2024BC Год назад

    Spitten image of cousin pete..South Jersey...Always staying busy...You boar hunt down there? Just did a 200 Pheasant tower shoot and clean up...Ton of meat because no one wanted to clean them...Them birds come at you cooking and its easy to get caught slippen...Fun...

  • @sethsilverii590
    @sethsilverii590 Год назад

    Will definitely be trying this recipe heck yeah!

  • @SubZerov67
    @SubZerov67 Год назад

    Such a cool place to be. It looks like jurassic park or something.

  • @fredkelly5609
    @fredkelly5609 Год назад

    Looks an awful lot like lake George WMA 😂 but I love your point about public land people are wild with those ribbons trying to claim their spots! Definitely gonna try this recipe

  • @royrostjr1352
    @royrostjr1352 Год назад

    OMG it's making my mouth water it looks delicious

  • @vladfish
    @vladfish Год назад +1

    Excellent video 👍

  • @mocobass8653
    @mocobass8653 Год назад

    Hey man great video. Quick question for ya. I'm always hunting tree rats man but it always seems like am getting too much little hairs leftover on the meat after. Is there anyway to get the hairs off

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад

      Not really, you can drop them in a bucket full of water. Keep a hose in the bucket running and as the water overflows it will clean them some

  • @zachsmith8916
    @zachsmith8916 Год назад

    It’s wild for me to see people squirrel hunt in a place like that. I squirrel hunt in West Virginia and seeing squirrels in palm trees and swamps together just seems so strange. Lol

  • @chinchinz2756
    @chinchinz2756 Год назад

    Man I have never seen someone cook squirrel like this I already know it tasted good. You should do some more recipes with squirrels sense alot of ppl dont really know how to cook them.

  • @williamgarcia2187
    @williamgarcia2187 Год назад

    Amazing video thank you! Wanted to ask what brand is your binoculars holder?

  • @mattwilliams2857
    @mattwilliams2857 Год назад

    Your in my neck of the woods… great small game hunting

  • @TheGozman100
    @TheGozman100 Год назад

    Have you ever fried them up and then make gravy out of the grease you fried them in and then put the squirrel meat back in the gravy. Then have biscuits and gravy it’s awesome. That is extremely popular here in NC.

  • @alanbecker3791
    @alanbecker3791 Год назад

    I absolutely love squirrel I'm going to have to try it like this

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад +1

      Nice to mix it up a little!

    • @alanbecker3791
      @alanbecker3791 Год назад

      I normally make it with brown gravy over rice or squirrels and dumplings mmmmm

  • @madman61756
    @madman61756 Месяц назад

    To all my fellow RUclips small game chefs! The “brown bits on the bottom of the pan” is called FOND. We alllllllll love fond, we are all very fond of fond! Good one! It’s the base for almost every gravy and pan sauce out there.

  • @jimeckenrode1271
    @jimeckenrode1271 Год назад

    The 22LR , Remington 552 speedmaster. awesome gun.

  • @ammohead73
    @ammohead73 Год назад

    I live in southern Ky, I've killed a lot of squirrels I love breakfast squirrel gravy, your recipe looks great!

  • @jeffreylocke8808
    @jeffreylocke8808 Год назад

    When my dad taught me to squirrel hunt he would walk ahead and I would walk way behind and look up at the trees. Sure enough a squirrel would be coming around the tree as my dad walked ahead. I would shoot them as long as the squirrel was way up in the tree. Very effective tactic.

  • @petegamez2692
    @petegamez2692 10 месяцев назад

    Looks sooo damn tasty I wanted to jump through the video lol 😆👏

  • @misfiregamecalls9054
    @misfiregamecalls9054 Год назад

    Ummm, I am going to need the GPS coordinates for those turkeys :)
    Good job on the video, made me hungry

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад

      No problem! They were right between Jacksonville and Daytona! Lol thanks for watching and commenting. New video dropped later today!!

  • @blueridgeboy6791
    @blueridgeboy6791 Год назад

    Just subbed. I'm down I'm gonna try this looks awesome

  • @LD.Walker
    @LD.Walker Год назад

    I grew up on fried squirrel and squirrel and dumplings. Rabbit is fine eating and can be made into carnitas tacos, just fried, or rabbit and dumplings.

  • @chrisstarnes2749
    @chrisstarnes2749 Год назад

    Old buddy I'm from the mountains of NC and I've eaten a lot of squirrel but never had squirrels in tacos

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад

      Ya man just trying to do something different but still live my gravy too

  • @joeponder9668
    @joeponder9668 7 месяцев назад

    Bro that looks amazing!!!

  • @ballistic350
    @ballistic350 Год назад +1

    Squirrels are good eating... you gotta try it with skin on steam in banana leaves with Asian spice n herbs

    • @TugTrashOutdoors
      @TugTrashOutdoors  Год назад +1

      I’d love to try that!

    • @ballistic350
      @ballistic350 Год назад

      @GoatRoper911 no burn the hair off like how u would on a pig scrape it clean.. RUclips it cooking squirrels hmong style

  • @williamcornelison4721
    @williamcornelison4721 Год назад

    I hunt to supply good meals for me and my wife, who for 30 plus years wouldn't eat game meat..... She took a taste of some venison steaks I was cooking on the Weber one day and that solved that problem.... Cheaper to hunt then buy meat at the store..... And I'm fishing more too.... Retirement life is getting better.. Carnitas sounds really good...

  • @MrSrtman18
    @MrSrtman18 3 месяца назад

    Looked awesome.

  • @elijahstonehan9566
    @elijahstonehan9566 Год назад

    Great job.

  • @kfred
    @kfred Год назад

    Well done brother!

  • @goesfisherman
    @goesfisherman Год назад

    That looks great!! If you were hurting for time to get it done fast, After braising. Put in a InstaPot and it will be done and tinder in around 30 minutes.

  • @joebrown1461
    @joebrown1461 Год назад

    From South Ga here. What WMA are y’all in?

  • @jonathan7174
    @jonathan7174 Год назад

    Just saw your video with bluegabe and came over to subscribe

  • @joehasberryjr7398
    @joehasberryjr7398 Год назад

    I'm with it we eat them here in Birmingham Alabama Great job and vibes respect from 205 pisces black alpha male Birmingham Alabama

  • @mattmatthew2440
    @mattmatthew2440 Год назад

    I like mine with onion and bacon, everglades season, wrapped in foil,slow cooked on a grill,wabbit good to like that.