Duck Hunting

[epowr]

Not on too long tonight, gotta get ready to go out early-early in the morning and do some waterfowl population control.

[TuscoTodd]

Hmmmm - that has me thinking I need to thaw out some pheasant for this weekend! :D

[waaytoomuchintothis]

I had a great duckin' hole along the Mississippi near Tunica. Perfect little cutoff oxbow. They built a damned casino right on top of it. Sad. But I have to say, I'm way too old for getting up at 3am in Memphis, driving to the duckin' hole, chopping out ice, setting out decoys, and calling to the sky for a bit of tasty feathered dinner. But I want to see a report from you about your trip!

[epowr]

[Pappy]

I hope you see some ducks.

I remember the first time I went out to shoot some golf, never saw a one. But I did find some of their eggs, most of them are white and they're perfectly round with a whole bunch of little dimples in them. :D

[epowr]

[epowr]

We had good success; Mallards and Gadwalls.

[waaytoomuchintothis]

That's a nice haul! I never have cooked a gadwall. They weren't seen much when I was hunting, but I understand they have spread all the way across North America now.

A guy who won the big duck calling contest in Arkansas when he was 12 used to go with us when we went to Mississippi, as he was from Oxford (where Ole Miss is), and still a very good caller as an adult. Otherwise, in Arkansas and Tennessee I called ducks and my buddy called geese with one of those scratchy wooden things that look like a turkey caller. When we got home, we set up a dinner the next evening with the wives at one guy's big old house. I had the cleaned ducks marinating in pear juice all night, and roasted them with peaches, then crisped the skin with ignited peach brandy for a dinner to feed everybody a whole roast duck each. I served them over wild and long grain rice with home made knot bread. I always wanted to do a fancy dessert, but we were always too full to eat it.

[nhdungeonracer]

Did you guys use the "Dale" caller? :lol:

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