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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mullet on September 10, 2016, 04:17:58 pm

Title: CAPYBARAS
Post by: mullet on September 10, 2016, 04:17:58 pm
 ;DLooks like we might be getting another good eating critter to hunt in Central Florida. On the News last night they reported about Capybaras on the loose and breeding in the Gainesville Florida area. They usually have 12 or more little critters in a litter. They reported them moving south towards where I live and will be devastating to our strawberries, blueberries and small citrus trees not to mention the melons we grow here, also. I've ate these in South America and are really good slow roasted on a fire. You have to love dumb Rednecks buying exotic animals at the Flea Market and then letting them loose when they get too big. I'm looking forward to slinging an arrow at one. :)
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: Outbackbob48 on September 10, 2016, 04:24:02 pm
Eddie , besides eatin got any other good parts,  hides, heads, bones, maybe tusks?
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: osage outlaw on September 10, 2016, 04:26:16 pm
100 pound rats will give your pythons a new food source

If you do kill one save me the skull please
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Post by: YosemiteBen on September 10, 2016, 06:48:16 pm
better get a handle on them now before the next tv series come out capybara explosion on the discover channel!
@Outback - their hides are probably like nutria or beaver. never touched one though but they do like the water....
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: H Rhodes on September 10, 2016, 07:16:06 pm
Send them north over that Alabama line Eddie - variety is the spice of life. My wife will have a come apart when she finds fifty pounds of rat burger in the deep freeze. :laugh:
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: mullet on September 10, 2016, 07:40:24 pm
I'm sure they will head your way, Howard. Heck, you sent us the Armadillo. The study the NC University did on  pythons said they are adapting to cold weather and will be in NC within ten years. These rat boogers like the warm swamps, I hope it makes itself at home in the Green Swamp Mngt Area.

Bob, it's a big ass rat without the tail, around #50. The ones you see in side shows at Carnivals, "Giant Rats".
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: Knotty on September 10, 2016, 08:14:23 pm
Oh man ! I still haven't had the chance to hit one here but I really wish you good luck.
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: Zuma on September 10, 2016, 09:51:18 pm
They are just coming back home :)
I found fossil teeth at the Apac pit in
Sarasota back in the day.
Zuma
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: mullet on September 10, 2016, 11:54:37 pm
Probably got wiped out when the meteor hit in the middle of the Gulf.
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on September 11, 2016, 08:03:52 am
Darryl Q and Denny S shot some and tanned the hide. Darryl has used it on most all of his self bow grips. Its unique leather, almost sued like on both sides.
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: mullet on September 11, 2016, 02:18:00 pm
Now I'd really like to stick one, Pearly.
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Post by: Pat B on September 11, 2016, 04:46:07 pm
Eddie, maybe you can trap a few and bring them up to SC.
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: mullet on September 11, 2016, 06:55:01 pm
I'm sure Chris would want some. But, like pigs, I'm not driving 9 hours with a stinky Rat in a Jeep.
Title: Re: CAPYBARAS
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on September 12, 2016, 07:45:03 am
Eddie I bet the hide tanned would make some great string silencers to.
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Post by: Parnell on September 12, 2016, 11:39:00 am
Sounds delicious to me.  That's be fun to hunt.