cabin fever or duck hunting

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Susan E

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So I guess if you have cabin fever and it is snowing... well it an excelent time to go duck hunting ... and you are crazy as a loon as starcraft tom is.


ME , the sensable wife stayed under the covers this morning when the 5am alarm clock went off. I am told the falling snow keeps the ducks low in the air and closer to shore. so you only have to sit in knee deep ice water. i will take their word on it. and since our dog is a healer not a retriever. he stayed home with me and tom had to walk out to his own ducks. but between tom and his friend they shot 14 ducks ( pin tails, malards, widgets). another hunter gave tom a snow goose on teh way home.

I don't eat duck as i have not found a recipie that ever tasted good. so suggestions are encouraged. And i refused to help clean them . i will change my mind if i find that i like the taste. I will help with the grouse or phesant .. i like to eat those. so here are some pics to anyone interested ... and having a little cabin fever.

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Always breasted them out and discarded the rest. Saute in olive oil and butter with some garlic, onion and red wine.

Hunting buddy's son was a chef in Wisconsin so we dined well on Sturgeon Bay.

Bill Uffelman
Las Vegas NV
 
Susan E":3g8czij6 said:
So I guess if you have cabin fever and it is snowing... well it an excelent time to go duck hunting ... and you are crazy as a loon as starcraft tom is.


ME , the sensable wife stayed under the covers this morning when the 5am alarm clock went off.
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Good for him! Reminds me of the story where the hunter went out, only to change his mind, it was so cold and blowing! Crawled back into bed and snuggled up to his bride and said, "Boy it's cold and wet out there!" whereupon, she said "Yes and can you believe my dumb husband went Duck Hunting!?".... :roll:

Charlie
 
I had a great time on my first duck hunt. we set decoys in the tidal flats and kneeled down behind a big drift wood log in ice covered salt water. We limited on ducks and if we had snow geese tags we would have limited on those as well. We did not have a dog so I had to go get my own birds and wading thru ice and breaking it each time is hard work. I was suprised how warn I was with the right cloths on. my one foot keep getting cold but to get warn you just shoot a duck and go braeck ice for 5 mintues and your sweeting again. I hope to do some more of this before the seasons over. I did breast then out and hope to cook them later. tThey all went into the vaccum bags for now.

Charlie you are a bad man. :wink:
 
Welcome to the wonderful world of waterfowling! When I lived in Oregon I was in a duck club...the most fun you can have with clothes on! :lol: A good number of mallards, tons of wigeon and pintails. Never had any snow geese, but lots of Canadas. I've shot hundreds of ducks and geese...once you do it, you're hooked!

I like to cook waterfowl in liquid...keep it moist and tasty. Field care is important like any other game. Cool the bird quickly in the field. I usually just lay the bird on its back, tear open the skin on the breast and carve the meat off the carcass. Same for the legs, cutting through the hip joint. I freeze them seperately for my "Duck legs in wine sauce" recipie. I'll get that one later.

Here's my favorite way to cook duck. Mom called it "Sunday Special Chicken" but I substituted duck or goose and it tastes great.

Shake breasts in a bag wih 1/4 cup flour, 1 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp poultry seasoning, salt and pepper.

Melt 1/4 cup butter in a glass baking dish and bake breasts at 425 for 30 minutes, covered.

Turn breasts and reduce heat to 350. Combine 1 can cream of chicken soup with 1/2 to 3/4 can of water in sauce pan. Pour over breasts and bake covered for another 40 minutes or so.

Try it...it's simple and good. I like to pour the "gravy"over rice or noodles.

Rick
 
Susan E":3opnlmxn said:
So I guess if you have cabin fever and it is snowing... well it an excelent time to go duck hunting ... and you are crazy as a loon as starcraft tom is.
so you only have to sit in knee deep ice water.
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This morning we had a mutual aid call with a neighboring fire district. Some passerby saw two people in the river near a bridge waving at them.......next thing you know our Hovercraft was dispatched for a Technical Water Rescue.....turns out it was a couple of hunters and our craft was canceled and never got to the scene......Was that you Tom? :roll: .
 
No not me. I had a great day with no problems. I did trip once and got one arm and glove wet but that was all. I did learn or come to the conclusion that duck hunting should not be tried alone. Take a partner with you. Now if I could find a pheasent partner with a dog.
 
If you leave the duck whole and have a rotisserie, Peking duck is actually easy to make.

1) Take the whole plucked duck and blanch it in boiling water for a couple of minutes.

2) Make a 50/50 mixture of salt and sugar and add some Chinese 5-spice to it. 1/2 cup salt, 1/2 cup sugar, 1tsp five spice will do for a small bird, double it for larger.

3) Rub the salt sugar mixture all over the inside and outside of the bird.

4) Brush the outside with molasses.

5) Hang it up to dry for several hours - paint on additional molasses during that time. I have two boat cleats on posts in my back yard. I run a line between them and hang the duck from there. I put a table underneath and put a pan on that to collect the drippings.

6) Put it on the rotisserie on the grill. It takes 20-30 mins to cook through.

7) When it's cooked, serve it on mu shu pancakes with some plum sauce.

As Rachel Ray would say, YUMMO!
 
the cold weather and blanket of snow has made for good hunting on the snow goose population on my fields. several local hunters have been limiting daily since the storms.
 
Roger, can you get any of the goose wings from those hunters. My uncle make's long bows and arrows by hand and need the feathers. He will take all you can get. I am sending him the two off the goose I took home the other day.
 
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