- Location
- Kelowna, BC
Not what I was expecting when I searched "Breast Pics"
Grouse breast pics?
- Thread starter Corycool
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You're telling me.....I Googled "Gross Breasts" instead of "Grouse Breasts"......that'll ruin yer lunch ...........I gotta learn to read better
Yeah - two spruce in that lot. We never use to shoot them because the old man use to(wrongfully) say they tasted like a mouthful of spruce needles ... but he use to shoot them and take them back to the old lady to clean, 3 or 4 days later.
I always clean the spruce grouse right away and like 2f2f says, they are as good (or even slightly tastier) than ruffies. Fried up in the morning with a little scrambled eggs, mapled brown beans, & a couple of slices of texas toast ..... sure hits the spot.
I always clean the spruce grouse right away and like 2f2f says, they are as good (or even slightly tastier) than ruffies. Fried up in the morning with a little scrambled eggs, mapled brown beans, & a couple of slices of texas toast ..... sure hits the spot.
I find spruce grouse taste like spruce later on in the winter after all the grass/weed seeds and dried berries have been covered over with snow. Nothing left for them to eat except spruce/pine needles. THEN they taste like a tree........
That's been my experience, too. Many hunters only shoot them as camp food while hunting larger game. That late in the season, they're starting to develop a taste. In some areas, maybe there's enough food that they don't have to resort to spruce buds all winter.
If you have early snow then I've found that too much budding can affect a Ruffies flavour. The first thing I do when I shoot a grouse is rip open their crop to see what they are eating .... and to be honest every Spruce Grouse I get from October to December has 100% coniferous needles in it's crop. In the Atlantic region, anyway, that's all they frikkin eat. With that in mind maybe it's something to do with subzero temperatures, as the year draws to a conclusion, that condenses the breast meat and produces the "turpentine" taste. Anyway got a couple frying up in the pan right now and the coffee is starting to perk so ........
I have shot them while archery moose hunting( read september) and they have all, and I mean all had tamarack(sp?) needles in them.....
this is northwestern ontario btw
