Alberta Duck opener -- banded bird.

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sjemac

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Well I went alone today since the guy I normally hunt with remembered to get his license at 6 pm yesterday, which didn't do him much good since there was no place to get his Migratory by then.

Day was really misty and it was hard to get shots off as birds would just appear out of the fog and then be gone again.

Started the day with a drake Canvasback and finished with a triple on Bluewings.

Shot my first ever banded bird in Alberta too. Been hunting here for 12 years and have shot thousands of birds and this is the first one I've shot with jewellry and only the second I've actually seen shot.


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Canvasback, 2 mallards, bluebill, bufflehead, 3 BWT, 2 coots and a bonus honker.
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Ah, perfect day for ducks. I haven't duck hunted for years now, but my best memories are of misty, rainy days, of having to wipe my nose on my glove, of hearing the Teals coming in, of smelling the empty hulls, of sipping a coffee in the truck waiting for daybreak. Good times. Now that I have retired (last shift today), I just may take up duck and goose hunting again. Thanks for the memories!! :p:p
 
I can almost smell the wet lab from here! :):):cool:

We still have 2 weeks before the waterfowl opener but your pics are getting me antsy. ;)

Congratulations on the band. :cool:
 
Now i am a bit more agitatated that the company i work for dated my cheque for the 31st! No money till the banks open tommorow, then i have to work anyways. Oh well, i suppose i can live vicariously through you, good looking score for an early season shoot.
 
I shot a couple hundred last year, and still seemd to make no dent in them in my spot. Chunked the breasts, rolled in peppered flour, then all the paprika that would stick. Hot pan for a few minutes and a whirl around.
Couldn't understand why some pass on them.

The teal is by far my favourite and usually the only one that I will bother to pick now and then and throw in the oven. As for the geese. Well I have never had one ever, that the meat was tender. I'm sure I'm not doing right,or there is a better way, But that's how it's always been for me, so they usually end uo in soup or stew. (and still tough)
 
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sjemac said:
Eat them. They taste way better than geese. Fry up the breasts and save the legs and gizzards for an authentic Louisiana gumbo. I'd shoot more of them if they'd fly more often.
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Gumbo !!! Don't get me started. I am a huge fish fan, of everything from cod tongues and cod cheeks, to brichins and steelhead, mussels, clams, lobster...

I was at a restaurant last year and their special was Louisianna crawfish/seafood gumbo. It turned me from anything ever called gumbo again. It actually turned my stomach. Even now ehen I see the words Gumbo, I get uneasy.
I would certainly say it was this particular restaurant (even though it is very well know for good food) but I just can't bring myself to try any kind of Gumbo again.
 
sjemac said:
Well I went alone today since the guy I normally hunt with remembered to get his license at 6 pm yesterday, which didn't do him much good since there was no place to get his Migratory by then.
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Luckily, here on PEI, you can get your migratory permit anywhere licenses are sold (as I am sure you remember) 2 years ago around 10 pm after about 10 phone calls, I found someone who had licenses (an outfitter/buddy) we were picking up my wife's license at 11pm to hunt around 5am!

What a trooper she was, 90 k winds and raining, we even had to paddle a canoe in the dark in these conditions!

Nice shooting by the way!
 
sealhunter said:
Gumbo !!! Don't get me started. I am a huge fish fan, of everything from cod tongues and cod cheeks, to brichins and steelhead, mussels, clams, lobster...

I was at a restaurant last year and their special was Louisianna crawfish/seafood gumbo. It turned me from anything ever called gumbo again. It actually turned my stomach. Even now ehen I see the words Gumbo, I get uneasy.
I would certainly say it was this particular restaurant (even though it is very well know for good food) but I just can't bring myself to try any kind of Gumbo again.
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REAL gumbo is made with ducks and coots and sausage. Maybe, just maybe some shrimp thrown in at the end.

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php?t=183545

If you don't like that it's cause all that salt cod has fried your taste buds:D.
 
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