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Offline corbanzo

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Eaten Wolverine?
« on: April 24, 2006, 06:27:32 AM »
I was wondering if any of you had tried wolverine, I was thinking about hunting them, and wondering what I would get out of it?
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2006, 06:55:01 AM »
Don't think I'd try and eat one.  Although they will try and eat you.  Good Luck.  I remember what the elders told me.  "A wolverine takes twice the killing as a Black Bear".
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2006, 08:37:15 PM »
This I know... lb for lb they are hands down the toughest critters that walk this earth.  My old man once told me a story that he was out by his cabin, and his dogs crawled down a wolverine den, he called them, one came out and not the other.  He had to reach down, and grabbed the first furry thing he touched.... luckily, it was that dog.
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I'd have to be reeeeeeal hungry.
« Reply #3 on: April 26, 2006, 09:16:38 PM »
Whew!  I have eaten lynx and beaver and I'll go back for seconds on either but I'd have to be darned hungry before I'd try wolverine.  

I read an account of some folks that were pretty hungry on the Kuskokwim and tried eating an otter but with little success.  

Had a friend who was pretty hungry and ate some coyote but he said he'd have to be even hungrier to try that again.
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« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2006, 01:28:05 PM »
They're a big weasel!  I don't think I would want to try a weasel unless I was R-E-A-L hungry!  Don't ruin the hide, though.  That is about the only fur worth anything anymore!

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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2006, 11:37:18 AM »
Yes, they are weasels, and seagulls are birds, I still eat birds.  I was actually think about this... wolverines are known to eat caribou and such at times... maybe improving their meat over other members of the weasel family.  How about this, next time I get to the property in the winter (in season) (I live down in 7, Kenai pen, no wolverines,  my property is in 16, trapper creek)  I'll see if I can get my rifle around one, and tell you how it is.  Gotta try everything once, plus I don't really like killing things I'm not gonna eat.
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maybe I can get you some to try
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2006, 07:45:09 PM »
Corb I have a few trapper friends, a couple are pretty good at trapping wolverine.  In 05 one got 15 (don't know'bout ths year) and this year the other got 10 I think.  I'm sure they'd be happy to give me a carcass and I could send it to you to try.

YOU can be Mikey and let us know how it is.
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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2006, 07:36:05 AM »
I'm sure I'll have to get one, I'm one of those one of everything the last of something type of people :)  :)
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« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2006, 09:17:59 PM »
corbanzo, I have only heard of or known one person who ate wolverines and he died an old man about 10 yrs ago. I have no idea how he prepared them i just know he took them and cooked them up. If I had to guess he probably ate them like alot of people do lynx only the legs and nothing else thats the best I can do for you
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« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2006, 02:51:13 PM »
If you've never skinned a wolverine, it is much easier to contemplate eating one I suspect. As for myself, there are several members of the mustelid genus I'd rather try first including the badger and the skunk, perhaps even the otter. Quite frankly I don't think of any members of the genus as being food, nor do many carnivorous animals.

Then there's the matter of hunting them. It ain't like hunting rabbits, ptarmigan, grouse or even wolves. Wolverines know how to be scarce and even in the breeding time - (the easiest times to find or track them), they can easily give you the slip. Good luck in your endeavor though. Use plenty of horseradish, barbeque sauce, or whatever and let us know how it goes!
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