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Way to go J.R.B! If you go to the 4 bore, be sure and post a picture or two of it, for us, with your daily bag.

4 and 20 Grackels baked in a pie! Oh, I guess those were live birds in the original version.

I wish I could use a shotgun to blast away at the starlings. Since I live in town, I'm limited to a pellet or bb gun and since I don't have a pellet gun, I'm stuck with a bb gun.

I've probably bagged about 9 in like number of years.

If you guys want to see a video of my neighbor shooting his 4 bore just google-----> Andys 4 gauge. He told me that the thing will cut holes in flocks of blackbirds.

The Hare looks like good tucker mate!
Being from England I'm a big fan of rabbit pie!
Why did you shoot the fox?..honest question
Perhaps I'm getting soft in my old age...I had a grey fox in my sights last year...but after a few minutes of watching him pouncing on mice in the grass through my cross hairs, i put the gun down n got my binoculars out,.
I guess I can't kill what I won't eat, personally , but I'm not judging anyone
Cheers
franc

Franc, I dont mind hare or rabbit, nor do my kids. My Dogs like them even more!

RE: The Fox - in Australia, the fox is an introduced species with no natural predators. It has affected populations of native birds and animals adversely. It also creates a problem for farmers by killing lambs, and given we are in a country area, the chickens tend to get knocked off as well. The property I shoot on uses 1080 poison, If the fox eats that it dies a slow death.

I used to hunt allot more, these days I shoot mostly clay targets. I shot these critters to help out the property owner, a farmer, who also donated their land for out sporting/ down the line club.

Since becoming a dad 10 years ago, I dont like to kill things without a reason. But I dont feel bad about killing foxes and rabbits.

Now I agree with you franc. Rabbit is a tasty meal. We have these little bunnies called cottontails. Fried nice and tender with a side dish of vinegared onions and mashed taters. Now that is a meal fit for the Queen but I still won't eat pigeon. How do you Brits make pie out of meat? Recipe please. To me a pie is made out of fruit. I'll have a nice slice of apple pie with a big scoop of ice-cream served after a good meal of fried cottontail.

I worked with a guy years ago, who was from Bottineau ND. He was showing me a picture of his family and friends "bunny hunt." There must have been 60-80 jack rabbits piled up in the photo. I asked what they did with all those jack rabbits. His response "We grind it up into bunny burger-good stuff."

J.R.B., you should get the recipe for good old steak & kidney pie too. Veddy, veddy good!!!

JC

I make empanadas out of all the meat on game birds but the breasts and any rabbits that have been dumb enough to cross me. Meat pies by another name. When my Marine son makes real English-style meat pies, he uses leeks and spuds in them just like they do in the (unlamented) old country.

JRB
Now you have put me on the spot.
Since I've been over here, I have seen about 3 rabbits in 25 years here in NH n I missed all 3, so my pie making skills have slipped a bit.
But I'd make up some shortcrust pastry & line the greased pie dish, saving enough for the "lid".
Then bone out the rabbit into bite sized bits,keeping all bones & trimmings.Boil these n reduce for gravey with a bit of rouge(butter n flour mixed to thicken reduced gravy)
Saute bits of rabbit for a short bit.
Then its up to you , I like root veggies in my pies, turnips, carrots, parsnips,onion, garlic... what ever you got..par boil these.Mix the whole mess up in a bowl so its moist but not too soupy, season to taste,add to pie dish, roll out pastry lid n put it on, prick with fork for steam vent.
Bake for a bit till looks good....
Some folks like veggies seperate, some in pie.
I just wing it, good pastry is the key.
I made a wild turkey pie n it was grand
You can't reall y mess it up , but don't overcook the stuff you put in it before baking.
Have spare gravy for the mashed spuds, never have enough gravy.
franc
I nearly forgot::Garnish with hard boiled pigeon eggs !!!
Leeks would be sweet!!

Thanks for sharing franc, I'm going to give a British style meat pie a try. I'll pass on the pigeon eggs. Yeech. If I ever get off my lazy duff I'll start sharing some BBQ recipes with you guys.