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...somebody else try one, let me know, then maybe I will....there sure is always a liberal limit on them, so I always suspected something had to be really wrong with them.... Smile

1. Bobwhite
2. Turkey
3. Wood Duck

Member Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 665 Location: Louisiana

Brit---The big problem with coots is their lack of sporting tradition; there is little to threaten their numbers. They will hardly fly (they walk following the interstate to migrate), can't be called and they have green feet--an inexcusable fault.
One neither hunts nor guns coots--coots are murdered. Rolling Eyes

Member Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 665 Location: Louisiana

That's it! Gophers---------------Gopher the coots Wink

Snipe Hunter
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:24 am

" 1. Bobwhite
2. Turkey
3. Wood Duck

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I admit there are advantages in game of every type;
But I've never heard of beast or bird to excel the twisting snipe.
Nicholas Kane, Louisiana, 1880

Got Snipe?"
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I gotta admit, the little buggers are pure sport to hunt--kind of the ZZ bird of the featghered game we hunt. However, they are small, kinda rank at times, and bony as hell. But I love to hunt them with a .410 or 5/8 ounce 28 ga load. Its not the getting, it's the trying with snipe. Besides, in MA., I just about have them all to myself. Most hunters don't even know what they are.

I breast them, flour them, brown them, chop them up fine with onions, mushrooms, and herbs and make a gravy to serve over rice. Its a good side with boneless fried pheasant breasts and a green vegatable.

getting hungry now. As long as I can't get one of them rice hens now. I quess I'll get out a pheasant breast and bake it slow over sauerkraut and cook up some wild rice and make a gravy. That's for tomorrow. Today got to settle for pizza. Has anybody ever made chili with pheasant. I tried that once. Not bad.

Member Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 279 Location: Mn

1. Red Head ( the duck)
2. ruffed grouse
2. quail

There is an older gent upstate New York, who has told me more than once that the worlds greatest delicacy is "starling". He says it takes ten or twelve to make a meal. I just don't know. When I think starling,I think little song birds.

Has anyone else heard of this? Maybe he's talking about something different than I'm thinking about.

Woodcock is right, coot can be delicious. However a duck it ain't! Its a Felucia, cousin to a Rail.

Forty yrs ago I was in a duck camp in N. Calif. The weather was blue bird and the birds would not fly. Dinner was going to be hot dogs when this newbie, a little Fenchman came in with an armload of coots. We smart guys cracked up, What was the Frenchie going to do with coots? HA HA!
Well Henri breasted them, marinated in wine and sauted in butter and garlic
and generously put the platter in the middle of the table. Henri was the hero of the hunt. He became my dearest friend, my business partner and my brother in law. He passed a few years ago and I miss him every day.

I feel vindicated. Thank you gmbeebe and woodcock. As some ridiculed rice hens(coot) when I brought them up. Your story, gmbeebe, reminds me and brings tears to my eyes. My father was suffering from alzheimers and parkinsons. I helped my mother take care of him. She would not put him in a nursing home. Dad was a hunter and fisherman. I used to pick up a couple of rice hens after duck hunting. My duck hunting partner would pole and I would sit in the front of the duckboat, or viceversa. We would chase the ricehens and get a few of them. Anyway my mother would bake them over sauerkraut covered with bacon. My dad who sometimes forgot to eat would allways eat the ricehens. My mother would slice the breasts up for him and he never not eat some of them. Mallards, grouse he would ignore, but not the rice hens untill one day he passed in his sleep. That little bird will allways have a place at my table, and anybody is welcome. My dad was the one that wouldn't shoot a pheasant because it wouldn't fly. Also he hated muskies. Thanks for reading this. George Phyle

My fave used to be pheasant when my mother did the cooking. Now that she's passed on I can't seem to duplicate her recipe so my new fave is roasted wild turkey. I can't seem to screw that up no matter how hard I try!

Member Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 665 Location: Louisiana

Purssian--You are clearly a man of taste. Starlings are indeed an excellent bird on the table as I have previously stated (somewhere). Your 'older friend' is talking about that imported pest and yes, several are required for a meal. Keep in mind that, when you collect these nest robbers for dinner you are also doing a public service.
Most any recipe for dark meat birds will do. Don't over cook them. Now is a good time to begin the hunt, at least down here.
An interesting aside, the fictional sleuth, Nero Wolfe, had two dozen starlings delivered to his kitchen every year. Nero and his intellectual prowess were a figment of the imagination of Rex Stout--the starlings' palatibility is for real.

Ron

Member Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 972 Location: Keller,TX

Gentlemen, I'm shocked that only 5 you have selected the most delicious DARK meat in the world. I'm speaking of that darling of the ammunition manufacturers the world over- the humble dove. Recipies will be by request only.! Cool

2. Pecan wood smoked teal or wood duck( or any other puddler)
3. Goose or Wild Turkey (non-liquid species)
4. Grouse
5. Quail or woodcock (tie)
6. Pheasant
Actually, the best tasting is the ones you bagged and prepared for an appreciative guest or two as well as yourself! Very Happy

[quote="gmbeebe"]Woodcock is right, coot can be delicious. However a duck it ain't! Its a Felucia, cousin to a Rail."

Come to think of it, I once dated a girl named Felucia in my adolecent years. She was delicious. however, I ran into her a few weeks ago. Low and behold, she's just another old coot now. Guess the name fits her. Wink