Any waterfowl hunters here? *graphic photos*

[Josh45640]

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I skin them.

 

[Baymen Moe]

I too live for waterfowl hunting. Been doing it for over 30 years now. I do save some days for deer but ducks are my passion.

 

[aprophet]

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it kina depends on what you are used to eating I grew up eating merganser rails and snipes pekins taste really good to me scoby don,t even taste like a duck and the mallards we have and black ducks are almost as tasty as pekins

 

[Baymen Moe]

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it kina depends on what you are used to eating I grew up eating merganser rails and snipes pekins taste really good to me scoby don,t even taste like a duck and the mallards we have and black ducks are almost as tasty as pekins

Wow, good for you for eating merganser. Like any wild game, the way it is cooked is key to how it will taste. If you over cook venison or waterfowl it tends to taste off.

I know I always cook my ducks properly because my kids always ask for more. My wife will not stand for anything slightly gamey and she too loves when I grill mallard breasts. It's all in preperation and cooking time.

 

[jaj121159]

I'm a passionate waterfowler myself. I started hunting ducks and geese for almost 30 years. I do hunt some for deer, especially since I bought a small farm a few years ago and can hunt my own property.

I also enjoy turkey hunting, but this year I haven't been out much due to chickens and building additional facilities. Here's a pic from last year.

 

[creekrocket]

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Depends if you have the experience cooking wild ducks, or wild game for that matter. You have to remember that when cooking wild duck, you have the option to cook your duck medium rare to rare. You dont have that option with most commercial fowl. Cooking the duck medium/rare will allow most to all the flavor and juices to stay with the meat after cooked. It takes a few ruined pieces of wildgame to get it right, but when you got it, its the best way to share and experience wildgame at it's best.

 

[usschicago1]

I would rather watch them run around alive

But I have family that hunts

 

[creekrocket]

I have posted a deer/venison recipe for yall over in the recipe board. Its a brine that a friend of mine gave me. I have not cooked deer any other way since geting the recipe. If you get a chance and have the time, I encourage you to gve this a try. You will be blown away.

 

[thekid]

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nice turkeys how big were there beards?

 

[jaj121159]

They were last year's limit. Two five inch beards (jakes) and a bearded hen (4"). Was getting toward the end of my time to hunt, so I took my limit one morning of what presented itself. In Nebraska the limit is three bearded birds during the spring season.