What type of squirrel do you think tastes the best: red,fox or gray squirrel?

[thehunter98.6]

What type of squirrel do you think tastes the best: red,fox or gray squirrel?

[1ojolsen]

whitetail

[jay]

alot of a squirrels taste depends on what they have been eating. Bite into a squirrel thats been chewing on hedge apples and you'll know it. If I had to pick, I'd say fox squirrels.

[Storm Hall]

Gray

[Jim in Mo]

Red and fox are the same. Gray are the best especially the young.
If you get a mess of red adults you may want to par- boil them before frying.

[andrewmaxwell97]

ive always liked gray the best. never has red though

[thehunter98.6]

My favorite are red squirrels, even though they are the smallest, they are the most tender to me.

[Sourdough Dave]

Easy gray, and a gray is twice the size of a red or fox

[Bioguy01]

I've never had reds or fox, only grays, but the grays are good. I look forward to trying fox squirrels within the next few weeks.

[FirstBubba]

I grew up hunting fox (red) and cat (grey) squirrels in the creek and river bottoms of east Texas. With twenty years experience, I can make these statements about them.
The fox/red is the larger of the two.
The cat/grey is always tender where the fox/red adult is not.
The cat, to me anyway, was much more fun to hunt.

[jay]

Here in the midwest, fox squirrels are twice the size of grays.

[FlyinMonkey]

They taste the same to me, maybe because I prepare them the same. I just get more meat out of fox squirrels being that they are typically bigger.

[ITHACASXS]

I've eaten grays and reds. both are delicious, but I prefer to leave the reds alone. FirstBubba, up in New York (where the fox squirrel is a very rare sight), the red squirrel is a tiny chatterbox that loves to blow your cover while hunting. I think I enjoy squirrel as much as any wild game. In my own house, they never make to the freezer. Helping my late mother clean her deep freeze, I found a bunch of cleaned and freezer burned squirrels my dad had forgotten about; I just about cried.

[Adrian Helfert]

fox squirrel. without the shot