the very first duck that I ever shot was a merganser... helluva shot too... it was hard to convince me to not eat it... I was raised, you kill it you eat it... but they ALL insisted and I listened... never went duck hunting again.
Who eats Mergansers
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Taste like possum. 
deadin
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Could be,but now that I think about it, our local Mud Hens were Coots and inedible......
Toledo has mud hens.
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CAJUNLAWYER
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I'll differ with you on the Coots. They are delicious breasted out in a stew.I shot one a long time ago and tried cooking the breasts.
It smelled horrible and I threw it out. You don't want to cook a coot either.
I never tried seagull, but I have been tempted to shoot them!
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Merganser sushi...you go first
Article makes sense, I'd try the jerky. Lot of trouble to prove a point though!
Never shot nor tried to eat merganser, but I am sure it can't be worse the condor or spotted owl. I heard seagull and Shake and Bake are pretty tasty.
Speaking of seagull
Did you ever hear the one:
A Texas game warden was driving on San Luis Pass road in June outside of hunting season checking on fishermen.
He heard some shooting from the beach and went up an access road to find a very old van with a family with a bunch of skinny kids playing in sand around van.
Father was 50 yards away shooting seagulls with an old ratty single shot shotgun. He had about 6 down on the ground.
GW went to father and said it's not hunting season, seagulls are never in season and you cannot shoot on a public beach.
Father in very broken English says, "This is how I feed my family, we are very poor and cannot afford groceries" GW decides hell it's a seagull, a flying rat and decides to let him go, but warns him to not do this anymore.
As he is walking away, he has a thought, turns back to father and asks, " you know I have never eaten seagull, how does it taste?"
Father thinks a second and said "it's kind of a cross between bald eagle and whooping crane."
Did you ever hear the one:
A Texas game warden was driving on San Luis Pass road in June outside of hunting season checking on fishermen.
He heard some shooting from the beach and went up an access road to find a very old van with a family with a bunch of skinny kids playing in sand around van.
Father was 50 yards away shooting seagulls with an old ratty single shot shotgun. He had about 6 down on the ground.
GW went to father and said it's not hunting season, seagulls are never in season and you cannot shoot on a public beach.
Father in very broken English says, "This is how I feed my family, we are very poor and cannot afford groceries" GW decides hell it's a seagull, a flying rat and decides to let him go, but warns him to not do this anymore.
As he is walking away, he has a thought, turns back to father and asks, " you know I have never eaten seagull, how does it taste?"
Father thinks a second and said "it's kind of a cross between bald eagle and whooping crane."
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You must have forgot to marinade overnight in pure grain alcohol?
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They are dog food. Literally.
If I saw a breaded, deep fried, gravy drenched merganser on the menu at Waffle House I would take the plunge.
Just the Hood, but you gotta know how to cook it!
Larry
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Bleh !!!!! I do not eat nor have I ever shot one. We don't shoot any divers only woodies, mallards, widgeon, gadwalls, pintails, black ducks and teal. We don't even shoot spoonies even though the drakes are really pretty. My favorite duck is teal green or blue wing. Throw them on the grill wrapped in bacon and slather with the que sauce of your liking. That is some fine eating. Mallards shot over cornfields here in Ohio are pretty tasty as well.
It's all so confusing. Stamps? limits? no shooting gulls? Just put that 50 pound bag of corn in the water right there, in front of my blind. What could go wrong.sureshotbob
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I use to duck and goose hunt quite a bit. I did shoot a hooded merganser once. I cooked it with a mallard and through them both out.
I've shot scoter's and pan fried the breast with onion and peppers they were not too bad.
The thing with wild ducks or geese is not to over cook them.
I've shot scoter's and pan fried the breast with onion and peppers they were not too bad.
The thing with wild ducks or geese is not to over cook them.
Agreed, if you don't like medium rare meat, you more than likely won't like wild duck or goose. They taste like nasty liver if you cook them well done.
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We were river hunting a small river for wood ducks, and completely missed the little flight. They learn fast. Cold and overcast, the bright head feathers of a hoodie came by speeding down river at about 4' off the water. I couldn't help myself.
After a long while, we took in the dekes, took down our blind, and headed down river looking. Picked him up and laid him in the boat. The white feathers on the head stayed fluffed out. At the house, he was still shining. Placed him carefully in paper towels and a two gallon baggie. In the freezer he went.
I wasn't accustomed to seeing a shot, feather intact, bloodless, displaying merganser.
When he came back from the taxidermist, he was as he was. Happy I had him mounted.
After a long while, we took in the dekes, took down our blind, and headed down river looking. Picked him up and laid him in the boat. The white feathers on the head stayed fluffed out. At the house, he was still shining. Placed him carefully in paper towels and a two gallon baggie. In the freezer he went.
I wasn't accustomed to seeing a shot, feather intact, bloodless, displaying merganser.
When he came back from the taxidermist, he was as he was. Happy I had him mounted.
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