Wild fowling season starts here in the UK on Saturday.
This is going to be my first season out. Looking forward to getting out on the foreshore in the wee hours.
Any wildfowlers here?
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Wild fowling season starts here in the UK on Saturday.
This is going to be my first season out. Looking forward to getting out on the foreshore in the wee hours.
Any wildfowlers here?
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Had to Google it. Ducks and geese. I see. Sorry, not a wildfowler.
There are a lot here. I have hunted them in the past but unless someone else wants the, I don’t bother. I hate cleaning them. Good eating though. Good luck.
I am fairly lazy and had a few episodes of hypothermia out in the morning cold hunting geese and ducks about a decade ago. Crawling to the truck and everything I could do to put the key in the ignition was scary. Warm-up and go find my gun! :p
Sad part was I was damn good at it. Oh I had a feed-call to beat all!
Don't like wild duck much either. I always breasted them out and made chili.
Now my big fun anymore is dove-hunting and upland game if someone will take me.
Drive out to the field and pop out my stool.
Love hunting with good dogs. Don't know anyone anymore, sadly.
Used to go pheasant, chukar, quail with some old dudes who had some good pups.
They are all gone anymore.
Wing-shooting is fun.
Will need to try loading myself. We need to use steel shot here. Not cheap.
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I go every season. I enjoy being out on the bay in the winter when there is nobody out there. We get mostly Bufflehead and Mergansers. Also Mallard and Black ducks. Good luck and enjoy.
Thanks.
I'll be happy to get a single duck this season. From looking at last years bag returns for the bay I am going to it looks like mostly mallard and wigeon and a couple of goose species.
Will consider myself supremely lucky if I get a goose for Christmas dinner.
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I love bird hunting but the wife no longer cares for the meat so I don't do much quacker smacking any more.
Everyone likes those dove wraps. I was making them from pheasant and chukar for a while.
Funny how some guys will give you all their birds. They just like to shoot.
Good luck!
Imagine your pattern and range smaller than they are!
Goose season in Maryland tomorrow!
If anyone gets a grouse please keep me posted. I adore grouse.
What is wild Grouse going for a pound today?
Legal or probably otherwise?
Per pound? Here it is, when available.
https://www.dartagnan.com/wild-scott...CYG002#start=4
Oh yeah! Grouse-wraps! :rofl2:
TBH, A lot of that chukar and pheasant were taken on canned-hunts.
Talk about expensive meat!
I AM an excellent guest at the 'club'! I will take all the birds if you don't want them!
Birds like this are such a delicacy that when I do get the rare treat, I take the cooked meat from the pan immediately place it one a large crouton that will soak up the juices that it might exude. You don’t want to miss so much as a drop.
Grouse and partridge shooting here is pretty common if expensive to take part in, It's mostly done on managed estates.
We do love duck. Not sure we've had goose so think we'll buy a bit to try. If we aint gonna eat it I aint gonna shoot it.
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Done my share of wing sacking, really liked jump shooting, once the sun was blazing high in the sky.
I've hunted the western fly zone of Ohio, it was incredible. Once the sun came up, and the fowl came to the fields, they literally blocked the sunlight from their sheer numbers. You name it...it was there. Canada's, blue fronts, snow geese, ducks of all specie's. Had some killer spots real close to home, even dropped a few in the back yard, along with an occasional pheasant and grouse.
Man!! Those were the days.
Got too pricey, and hate steel shot, so I quit.
I used to love dove hunting back in the day. But I never really liked the meat, and I'm not going to shoot what I won't eat, so I gave it up.
Dove hunting use to be my favorite thing to do in the fall. We used to go to Somerset, Texas (just south of San Antonio) and bag our limit (14) everyday that we hunted. Like Sharptonn says - Breast them, put a jalapeno in the center and wrap in bacon and put them on the grill.
Haven't been hunting in years. Don't miss cleaning all those birds... or the drunkards. Alcohol and firearms don't mix.
Yeah, I've tried a number of "delicious" dove recipes like that, and still just don't like the taste of the meat, no matter how much buttermilk you soak it in, bacon you wrap around it, whatever.
Now I do love some good duck meat, but never hunted for them for whatever reason. Probably because around here (Upstate SC) has been known mostly as a dove area until the last few years. Seems like Duck Dynasty made everyone a duck hunter for awhile!
Indeed, I once had the job of making the rounds at a huge corporate annual dove hunt in exchange for hunting privileges.
'You gonna hunt? Or drink? Cannot do both! Some put the beer away and some put the gun away.
Some got belligerent, but peer pressure helped there.
Had to write it all down. Take names. Was not popular to some but it was explained as a liability issue.
We learned, that dropping down two shot size's in steel, from lead, would give the same ballistics as lead shot.
So if you were wacken um with #2 lead, you'd have to go with BB in steel, for the same results.
My biggest problem was not wanting to run steel shot thru the barrel of my model 97 Winchester. It a family heirloom, passed down thru the family. Never failed me, no matter the weather. 32" s of full choke discipline, has put more meat on the table, than a piggly wiggly.
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Here on the Lower Umpqua River and environs we've both good waterfowling and upland bird hunting. When I was in High School I all but lived in a blind on the river. The biggest difference between now and then was that then there were almost no geese. It was a big deal if someone just saw a gaggle of geese. Once or twice somebody got a shot at, and killed a honker, but that constituted really big medicine; it so very rarely happened. Now the Canada Geese are so numerous that they are considered pestiferous. (Love that word pestiferous)
Yep-I like to drink, and I like to shoot, but you won't be doing both at the same time around me! The wife and i were at a neighborhood pool party a few Labor Days ago (with plenty of alcohol flowing) when a couple of guys started pulling out their CCW's to see whose was biggest I guess-not okay or cool at all IMO. We left, and haven't been invited back (which is cool-I have other friends with better judgment and less insecurity, believe it or not:).
I have always been a shooter, but also a strict gun safety nut. Both my boys could clear and make safe about any kind of wheel gun or semi auto when they were both still in elementary school. And we always took pride when they always shot the groups of the week at Scout summer camp every year, first with pellets, and later with .22's. Another related story-I stopped in at the Greenville Cabelas a few weeks ago to buy some clothes and browse the guns in the back. I'm standing around looking when this idiot kid barrel swept me three times while showing a Glock to a customer. I thought about saying something to him or the manager, but was pretty tired, so just left-I won't be buying any guns there! Rant over-that is just an issue I get worked up over!
Oh, and nice picture, Mike-I've seen pics of my Papaw (who used to hunt all over the Sandy Mush area of Western NC decades ago) and my uncles like that-holding up the catch or kill of the day along with the tools they used to bring them in-they were a different breed.
Never hunted much, but would if needed.
Owned about 100 guns over the years but only kept a handful.
My wife's son (now mine too) is a serious bonehead. Love him dearly, but it is scary when he is around guns.
They stay in the safe. Trying to teach him the basics but he can't seem to grasp the concept of not "barrel sweeping", along with just about every other rule and guideline for guns.
He is 8yrs old, but acts more like 4.
Well maybe there's still hope.. :)
Yeah, Mike T-I've been at a couple of out in the country "shooting ranges" that I just had to leave-too many people waving barrels around, walking downrange without warning, just totally undisciplined-I won't tolerate it.
Of course, some of the guys around here like to take a bottle into a deer stand and hunt drunk, on public land no less! I see you are a Sandlapper too, so probably know what I am talking about-what part of the state are you from?
Yep, first thing I learned when I moved here, people seem to drink a bit more is South Carolina than just about any other place I've lived.
All the usual occasions, and then some!
Hunting, fishing, on the beach, driving the boat, driving the truck, taking the trash can to the curbside... hey you name it and they drink while doing it! Lol
I'd love to go duck hunting sometime! Never been dove hunting, or even eaten one.
Will have to try it sometime.
Good luck on the hunt gentleman!
Edit: oops edited the wrong one.. Can I hunt ducks with my Saiga 12? :D
Edit: oops edited the wrong one.. Can I hunt ducks with my Saiga 12? :D[/QUOTE]
I suppose you could.....I mean a 12ga is a 12ga, right? You would probably get a second look from a lot of people thinking your bird hunting with an AK-47.
For those of you who are about to take to the hunt, I dug up a couple action pics from the blind, years ago.
I still get a rush from it, thinking back to that day. Had one damn near land in the blind with us. A massacre. :roflmao:roflmao
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Love when they lock, and commit to the deeks, (decoys)
The last time I was in France I had this dish. It’s a grouse with red wine sauce. It’s liver is made into a pate and is smeared on the toast. It was shot wild. A small piece of buckshot left behind proved as much.
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Don't try to microwave meat with shot in it.....:w
I suppose you could.....I mean a 12ga is a 12ga, right? You would probably get a second look from a lot of people thinking your bird hunting with an AK-47.[/QUOTE]
Not here lol.
Not allowed to hunt birds with a gun that holds more than two in the magazine so in reality with a Section2 semi three cartridges is your lot.
But as I once read, if you cant hit it the first time, or second, do you really deserve a third fourth or fith shot at it?
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