Out with The Preacher.....
 

My big magnum 10 gauge aka The Preacher has been getting some shooting this season. I've been hunting around Kingsville, Ontario which is the home of the Jack Miner Waterfowl Sanctuary. My goal in hunting this area was to hopefully shoot a Miner banded goose and I've managed to get two so far. I've also been able to take advantage of the new cormorant season and had a couple fun shoots on those.

Neat stuff! I have at least one book by Miner, but never knew about the sanctuary. And, what, pray tell, does cormorant taste like?

All of the Jack Miner bands have parts of a Bible verse on them.

Mos' like a heron .........

Great Pictures Destry , Looks like you are really enjoying yourself ! What part of the Bible Verse was printed on your two Bands ?

Cormorants are shot as a pest type bird similar to crows, they are not eaten.

But...I've eaten crow more times than I care to admit...

Even a possum won't eat a cormorant....

Ezekiel 21?

Destry, Hope you kill every cormorant you see up there. Those dirty birds winter over down here in the Houston area and make a mess of everything. Wish we could shoot them down here. Truly a pest..

A cormorant season is needed down here too.

I was wondering about the Cormorant's. Those things are everywhere these days.

We used to call them water turkeys.... Although, I am not even sure where that term came from, or if anyone else ever called them that. At a distance you could mistake them for geese, and they they'd put on that glide and you knew they were water turkeys.... :D

They have decimated the perch and walleye fishery in northern Lake Huron.

I'm glad Ontario got one board with a season, I wish the US would do the same. They're thick on every large body of water up here.

Cormorants. Another example of the folly of: not-threatened; totally un-managed; but protected. Kooks in control.

great pictures...your still the man on water fowl....is that forearm on your ten gauge a small one or is it a beaver tail....good shooting ....charlie

I shoot cormorants on sight. I think the true name for them is "Anhinga", but I could be wrong about that. I don't know what the law is concerning them in GA, but when I catch one sunning on my dock with it's wings outstretched in the sun, and it's excrement all over the chair it's perched on, a load of #4s ruins it's day.

They're different birds. Similar but different. Google cormorant vs anhinga

A good friend who has since passed had 600 fenced acres in North Texas and several bass ponds. He used to practice with his Remington 700 in 7mm Rem Magnum on them! Said they blew up really nicely.

Charlie,

It's just got a regular splinter forend. I'm glad, I think a beavertail is a sin before God.

Scott,

We shoot them down south on the fish farms under a depredation permit. During the middle of the day when they're roosted drying their wings my friend drives around and works on them with his .17 varmit rifle. One pop with that and they look like a tar shingle falling off a high roof.

Good sport is trying to hit one swimming with an open sighted .22. You likely won't get a shot at less than 75 yards or so, and only their head and neck is above the surface once you pop one off in his direction........... and it's constantly moving.

Thank you, John. I learned something over coffee this a.m. I have Anhingas here, not cormorants. I can see the differences when pics are compared. Our birds are very black, even with feathers dry. The cormorants, like Destry shoots, are browner. The head on an Anhinga is slimmer, too.

I'm familiar with depredation permits for deer. They ruin our fields of young cotton and peanuts. I can see how these things would ruin a catfish farmer's profits. Wonder if fish farmers can get a permit to shoot ospreys? :whistle:

Several years ago My neighbors were doing a great deal of shooting early in the morning for several days. I finally went over there to discover they were shooting cormorants over there newly stocked pond. 54 of the critters won't get any fish. By the way cormorants are protected around here. But, you don't mess with some peoples stocked ponds.

I also agree with Destry on his opinions of beavertails on a SxS

Is it possible shoot to too many cormorants?

Destry, what grade is the Preacher?

A GH