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Hooded Merganser?
#2661537
12/03/18 07:07 PM
12/03/18 07:07 PM
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Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,657 Pelham
Ben2
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
#2661550
12/03/18 07:23 PM
12/03/18 07:23 PM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,180 alabama
BhamFred
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nope. Male makes a good looking mount.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
#2661578
12/03/18 07:44 PM
12/03/18 07:44 PM
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Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,657 Pelham
Ben2
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
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12/03/18 08:16 PM
12/03/18 08:16 PM
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Joined: Feb 2014
Posts: 2,783 Owens Xrds
AUwrestler
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Who does a good job mounting them? There's another thread going on for the same thing.
I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn. Therefore I believe in work, hard work. -George Petrie (1945)
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Abbhudson]
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12/03/18 08:18 PM
12/03/18 08:18 PM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 5,101 Opp Alabama
bward85
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I know some boys that claim they eat them, they also claim to eat coots so their honesty/sanity might be questionable Coots are good to eat....but not a Merganser!
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: AUwrestler]
#2661651
12/03/18 08:34 PM
12/03/18 08:34 PM
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Posts: 19,657 Pelham
Ben2
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Who does a good job mounting them? There's another thread going on for the same thing. Got it thanks
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: BhamFred]
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12/03/18 08:57 PM
12/03/18 08:57 PM
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Joined: Aug 2003
Posts: 42,094 UR 6
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Freak of Nature
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nope. Male makes a good looking mount.
LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!! - - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: top cat]
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12/03/18 09:49 PM
12/03/18 09:49 PM
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Ben2
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nope. Male makes a good looking mount. Gonna take yalls advice and just mount him. Was hoping it would be like a wood duck but oh well will know not to shoot another one.
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
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12/03/18 10:47 PM
12/03/18 10:47 PM
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woodduck
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Abbhudson]
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12/04/18 08:10 AM
12/04/18 08:10 AM
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Posts: 4,582 Coosa County, AL
Coosa1
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I know some boys that claim they eat them, they also claim to eat coots so their honesty/sanity might be questionable I've eaten coots. You can make anything edible with enough Italian dressing and bacon.
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: ozarktroutbum]
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12/04/18 11:28 AM
12/04/18 11:28 AM
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Posts: 814 NE Alabama
Abbhudson
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Has anyone eaten a coot? They have to taste better than a merg. They only eat plants. I never have, just assumed they wouldn't be good cause they look funny. Maybe I'll try them some day. I'll never eat a hood again though.
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: ozarktroutbum]
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12/04/18 12:22 PM
12/04/18 12:22 PM
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Posts: 5,101 Opp Alabama
bward85
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Has anyone eaten a coot? They have to taste better than a merg. They only eat plants. Coots are good...just make sure and get ALL of the fat and skin off of the breast. I soak the breast fillets in buttermilk for 24 hours...wrap em in bacon and season with Montreal Steak seasoning...then grill em till the bacon is done. Pretty dang tasty!
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: ozarktroutbum]
#2662410
12/04/18 05:28 PM
12/04/18 05:28 PM
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Posts: 1,469 Louisiana/Clarke
Spec
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Has anyone eaten a coot? They have to taste better than a merg. They only eat plants. Several time. They have big gizzard which is tasty. They also make a good gumbo.
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
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12/04/18 06:02 PM
12/04/18 06:02 PM
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Posts: 39,449 Marshall County
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I have heard of cajuns making pouldeau gumbo which is Coot meat. I didn't seriously think they'd be good to eat. Wish I had known. I probably killed about 20 last night. Sounded like hail hitting the bottom of my boat.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
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12/04/18 06:56 PM
12/04/18 06:56 PM
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Posts: 9,047 USA
marshmud991
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Hell ya we eat coots. Cut the breasts out and clean that big ole gizzard. Cooked down in a black iron pot or a gumbo. Make a puppy pull a freight train. Them mergansers taste way to much like pelican for me. Don't like it.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chews your a$$ all day long.
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
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12/04/18 09:28 PM
12/04/18 09:28 PM
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Posts: 2,380 Albertville
icducks
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I got in touch with him. Gonna send him a wood duck or two and the rotten fish duck You won’t be disappointed. He does jam up work.
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
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12/05/18 08:57 AM
12/05/18 08:57 AM
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Posts: 18,920 colbert county
cartervj
Old Mossy Horns
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I got in touch with him. Gonna send him a wood duck or two and the rotten fish duck You will be pleased, he's done several for me. Upper Midwest, they make jerky out of the mergansers, it's probably the only way I would eat it. When it comes to Coot, I can't get past their smell.
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
#2666029
12/08/18 12:11 AM
12/08/18 12:11 AM
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Posts: 16,495 Guntersville
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Years ago when I still duck hunted, we killed 2 hen mergansers and that was all we shot that morning. We were just kids really. Maybe early 20s. There was an old man at the boat ramp when we got back. He was eyeballing those mergansers hard. “Is that what they call a wood duck?” he asked. “I reckon it is,” I said. It was like Christmas Eve or the day before. The old man wanted the birds and we let him have them. “I’m going to have my wife make dressing out of them,” he said. Thanks Now she may have been a spectacular cook and it might have turned out beautifully. But I’ve always envisioned a horrorible stench coming off that merganser dressing on Christmas morning.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: FurFlyin]
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12/11/18 09:55 PM
12/11/18 09:55 PM
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Posts: 3,797 Scottsboro Al
TravisBatey
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I have heard of cajuns making pouldeau gumbo which is Coot meat. I didn't seriously think they'd be good to eat. Wish I had known. I probably killed about 20 last night. Sounded like hail hitting the bottom of my boat. Was hunting with a guide in Arkansas years back and we had some coots swimming out around the decoys and jokingly he asked if we wanted a limit of those as well. We laughed it off and he told us he has a group of Cajuns a few days prior that was passing on mallards to shoot the coots that would swim in. He said they was tickeled to death with their limits of coots. It was a fairly expensive guide too. I told him if he ran across anyone else wanting a guided colt hunt to send them to the big G and I’d hook the up for a few $$$.
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Re: Hooded Merganser?
[Re: Ben2]
#2670626
12/12/18 04:00 PM
12/12/18 04:00 PM
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deadeyesdad
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4 point
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Best thing to do with a hoodie is breast it out and use it for catfish bait. Then eat the catfish.
"There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying" John Popper
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