Duck Hunting Question

[flyinhigh81]

i was reading the post earlier about cleaning birds and was wondering how my fellow duckhunters feel about guys that shoot birds to just shoot them, and then let them just rot in there garage.

[Teton]

Its deplorable.

I was taught to use what you took, or don't take.

[AtItAgain]

If you're not going to eat it, don't shoot it.

It's a waste of game and disrepectful to the animals that we choose to pursue.

I have spent hours looking for one bird because I didn't want it to be wasted.

It also, gives hunters a bad image.

[shinnookums]

People who do that disgust me. There is no shoot and release. If you don't like to eat wild game at least find someone who does and make sure you process the meat like you were going to eat it yourself. Believe me, I've on occasion shot limits of scaup when the good ducks weren't flying and still managed to choke them down. Teriyaki does wonders.

[sharpshott]

Poachers

[HunterXtreme]

[Jeremy]

From the regs:

All game birds killed or crippled must
be retrieved, if possible, and kept by
the hunter in the field. All crippled birds
reduced to possession must be immediately
killed. Waste means to allow any
edible portion of any game bird to be
rendered unfit for human consumption,
or to fail to retrieve edible portions except
internal organs of such game birds from

the field

[Big Unit]

I've come close to drowning twice due to duck retrieving. Well, it would have been a struggle with waders on anyway. I can't imagine.

BU

[fishncliff]

You are just baiting EH aren't you? :tongue: Shame on you.

I got horribly sick after a hunt 1 time and didn't get my birds done up in time. Lost the lot.
I was jinxed for 2 hunts afterwards.

EAT WHAT YOU SHOOT.

[duckboy]

I used to hunt with a guy that was a great hunter,

Funny, and likeable enough to spend many days in the field with.

One day i found out that he'd been pitching anything that wasn't a mallard into the ditch on the way home.

He never hunted with me again, In fact, never will.


I mean, I'd probably pull him off the water if he fell overboard, and might give him a tow if his boat was disabled. But my hunting affiliation with him ended the moment I heard that he ditch pitched birds.


You know, these birds are living things.
To kill them for sport and then waste them is deplorable.

Isn't a wild creatures life worth more than to be left in a ditch to rot?

I'd venture to say that most folks on here would do all they could to find a downed bird, get it home to process it and at least turn it into good duckeroni.

If nothing else, lets say you blast a coot, or maybe even 25 coots, strip em down and cook them up for the dogs to enjoy... same with bluebill, or the divers... lots of guys blast a limit and get home and cook it up and say, "yee ghads, I'm not hungry enough to enjoy this"


Then feed it to the dogs or the cats...

My dogs get all of the gizzards, and livers and hearts of puddlers. they love it, and whenever they seem me carving up birds to process in the kitchen, they wait at my feet for the first batch of duck guts. (cooked in a skillet or boiled).


I figure, the dogs busted their eggs trying to find these birds, and they love the guts, why not...


they are happy, and then I am happy.



I was able to hunt 90 days in a season a few years back due to a layoff,

I fed my entire neighborhood duckburgers and legs and all the stuff I couldn;t eat.

But to waste it.


I just cant see the joy in that.

A wild and noble bird deserves an end that has some dignity.

[007SPRIG]

call the T.I.P hotline and turn their sorry butts in.

[sprigkiller09]

There are some fellers i know who have more money than sense.....they shoot everything in sight but if they shoot a limit and still want to hunt they toss out the lesser species. I called the tip line and they got busted but when you have money one little ticket doesnt matter........Guys like that make me cringe...

[drifting]

The big reasons I like to hunt are to spend time outside with friends and family and I like to cook. Wasting is something I cannot understand nor condone.
My brother in law was talking about someone who left a deer hanging without a wrap for 3 days. It was ruined. The guy lost his hunting priviliges for 2 or 3 years and was fined. Makes all the sense in the world to me.

[Hooked up]

Don`t shoot it if you are not going to eat it.

[Tvfowlhunter]

A wild and noble bird deserves an end that has some dignity.[/quote]

Very good post Duckboy.

[MarshBum]

Originally Posted by duckboy

If nothing else, lets say you blast a coot, or maybe even 25 coots, strip em down and cook them up for the dogs to enjoy... same with bluebill, or the divers... lots of guys blast a limit and get home and cook it up and say, "yee ghads, I'm not hungry enough to enjoy this"

Good post Todd, except for the quoted portion above. How can you put coots in the same league as blue bills? The scaup seem to be the Rodney Dangerfield of the duck world. No respect!

I was camping with some friends. Someone had a pellet gun. Someone shot a sparrow with it. We made him eat it. Tasted fine... and the point was made.

Geoff

[dixiefisher]

THis is nice to read up here......I was raised to eat what you shoot....that is why I quickly gave up squirrel.....and now I go outta my way to serve and NOT hit a opossum.......

[raptorschild]

I say kill what you want and eat what you want. If you arent hungry, then the garbage-can usually is!


just kiddin.


Seriously kids, eat what you kill! especially the hawks and bald eagles...raptors eat up excellent. don't waste this resource!!!!

just kiddin

[Got Fish?]

Until about 2 years ago I wouldn't eat deer, birds or even salmon or steelhead. I would only eat the elk I got. And 2 years ago I had a lot of very happy happy, and full relatives and friends. I love to hunt and fish but I could never, (nor would I want to) eat all that I catch or kill. However I never let anything I kill go to waste. I think treating fish and game to others who don't have the will, knowledge or ability is sometimes worth the effort to catch or hunt these critters.

I just went on my very first duck hunt yesterday and had a BLAST! I'm going to try again with my buddy tomorrow, I know that I don't like duck, but my buddy takes all that he can get for breasts and gooseroni??? Never had any but he said I have some coming my way here shortly. I get the best of both worlds with this deal.

Don't ever waste what you get! :smile:

[Lucky Guy]

Shoot the clay ones if you don't want to eat 'em.

[wsmahan]

[chukkar1]

If you dont like duck, at least donate them to someone who does.