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Looks great. Only "snows" we have is on the ground. Finally have water but with temps dropping into the -20 to -35 range every night the birds don't move unless they have to. There are probably 6000 mallards within 1/2 mile of my open water but they don't see it if they don't fly. Looks like we will be flirting with -40 for the next several nights. Getting mighty tiresome. My neighbor has a bunch of geese on his place and we could hunt them but it's too damn cold and I feel kind of sorry for them anyway in this weather.
Shoot some snows for me Brian. I learned over the years that the little ones, Ross geese, are the ones to eat. Other white geese and the XXL dark geese are good jerky material. -plc- |
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I tried slicing goose breast thin and making strogonof with it last weekend. It was like chewing on an old well-used lariat...
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Specs and Tule geese are the best eating ones in our area. The Tule geese being more from the Tule Lakes area, not so much down our way.
Richard, I made the same mistake in college 40 years ago. Shot a nice snow goose, cut strips to marinade for a few days, and haven't eaten the damned things since! |
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Please send some mallards to Virginia. It has been too warm here and we need some new birds.
Thanks, Larry |
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im still in short sleves yesterday and today...and aint seen over 10 ducks the whole year on the little creek i deer hunt on... charlie
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I plowed out the back road yesterday and there were several thousand mallards on the drain ditch, can't hunt there cuz it's refuge, and they just flew a little ways and landed again. I did see some pteradactyl size geese fly over my pond whil I was plowing. Birds will not move any more than the bare minimum in this weather. Agree with you Brian on the specks and tule geese. I also like the small races of Canadas. Unfortunately, where I live now we only have the gigantic ones like in this picture. Guaranteed to be tougher than bridle leather. You can cook in liquid, in a bag, in a dutch oven and it is always the same, tough and dry. They don't carry much fat for their size and that is a real problem. They are better in early season before cold stresses them. Jerky is the answer. |
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