Who eats Mergansers

[HOUSTON RICK]

You must have forgot to marinade overnight in pure grain alcohol?

 

[glenwolde]

They are dog food. Literally.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If I saw a breaded, deep fried, gravy drenched merganser on the menu at Waffle House I would take the plunge.

 

[CH4]

If I saw a breaded, deep fried, gravy drenched merganser on the menu at Waffle House I would take the plunge.

I am confident you would.

 

[boykinlp]

Just the Hood, but you gotta know how to cook it!
Larry

 

[llowry61]

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.

 

[Retired W4]

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]

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.

 

[llowry61]

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.

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.

 

[YeshuaIsa53]

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.