Nutria Rat Knockout Video

[Delta Duckman]

Usually near the end of duck season here in SE Louisiana nutria come out on cold days to warm up in the sun.  When the water is low is a good time to hunt them.  Somehow nutria seem to know alligators who love to eat them are dormant during this time of year.  Nutria are considered a nuisance animal that can be taken all year.  Duck hunting has been really slow for us this year so if we are going to get up early for a duck hunt we hunt nutria after the ducks.  We give the nutria to a camp caretaker who eats them and shares them with his family members.  We have fun and he gets to eat.  Video shows some of the action.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVb_cQQpcac

[Arcade Hunter]

That looks like a riot!  Thanks for sharing

[Delta Duckman]

Yes it is a lot of fun

[Pygmy]

Those things look like a muskrat on steroids....

[GreeneHunter]

58 minutes ago, blackbeltbill said:

I bet they are good eating too! 

Aren't they on some Menu's down south ?

[wolc123]

1 hour ago, blackbeltbill said:

I bet they are good eating too! 

Very nutrichous.

[DDT]

My nephew lives in central LA, says he has surf and turf all the time. Nutria and Crawdads.

[Delta Duckman]

Some people eat them and they are similar to rabbit.  You have to sneak it on them, not tell them what they are eating.

[mowin]

That looks like a great time.   I've never heard of them.  Ugly looking critters. 

[Pygmy]

I  was walking across a bridge  over the Chemung River in Corning NY, a few years back,,,There was a big beaver swimming upstream, and an older couple were stopped along the bridge watching him...I stopped along side them, and the old gent said " "Is that a nutria ..?"

I said...." You're not from around here, are you ..?"