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Pintails (Pics)
14 December 2010, 02:40
Goldeneyegreat pics!
thx for sharing.
BTW: Do you guys ever eat for example mergansers in the U.S?
fat chicks inc.
14 December 2010, 20:51
collectorWe usually do not hunt fish-eating species like Mergansers and they get a free pass during the hunt. We have 3 in North America:
1) Common Merganser (Biggest one, called Goosander across the pond)
2) Red-breasted Merganser
3) Hooded Merganser (he is the smallest)
Now every now and then someone will shoot one for taxidermy as they make the most interesting mounts.
Some old timers like to cook them in a smoker so breast meat can be utilized if cooked by a person who is knowledgeable.
Every now and then some rookie hunter shoots them and tries to cook them....results are usually disastrous.
14 December 2010, 22:14
Goldeneyehaha!
I've never tried to eat one.
They say people here ate them during ww2, but I supose they did not enjoy it.......
Laying them in milk is suposed to take some of the bad taste away from what I know.
I have a mount of a common merganser with a mink on its back. shot them both two years ago..
If it is yor mounts in great hunters 5 I wish to congratulate you! Very nice.
regards.
fat chicks inc.
15 December 2010, 00:13
L. David KeithThanks for posting collector. Pintails are my favorite puddle duck. Such graceful fliers.
David
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15 December 2010, 04:22
NortonLove those sprigs, collector!
Planning on a gulf hunt one of these years for redhead and sprigs......can't wait.
15 December 2010, 07:50
collector@Goldeneye
Guilty as charged
@LDK
Agreed...Pintails and Canvasbacks are probably up there when it comes to graceful flyers.
@Norton
Try to hit the Gulf in second week of January...redheads will be beautiful and pintails will have long sprigs.
15 December 2010, 18:54
Dall85Magnificient birds! Pintails against the sky make a beautiful picture.
Eating a Merganser is like eating a spoonful of swamp mud!
Jim
15 December 2010, 19:03
blaser93Grate as all ways , The pintails are here and Blues and snow geese are showing up to here on eastern shore of Md and Delaware.
15 December 2010, 22:32
Craig Nolanthey are indeed a beautiful bird, especially in these pics from a few weeks back ...
Best Regards,
Craig Nolan
Best Regards,
Craig Nolan
15 December 2010, 23:10
NortonCollector.....I'm planning on hitting the Finger Lakes in the next couple of weeks before they freeze entirely.....that's probably not all that far from you. Word is, the redhead and bluebill hunting can be pretty fair.
16 December 2010, 04:05
TEANCUMThey look like bullets zipping through the air when you see them in flight.
I would like to get a pair for the wall.
16 December 2010, 06:33
collector@Norton
I think the season may close early up there...they shoot all kinds of divers up there...have fun and take lots of pics. Would love to see them.
22 December 2010, 23:02
L. David KeithNice Craig!
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http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007
http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more:
http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added
http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#926103994110 days in the Stormberg Mountains
http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017
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Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running......
"If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you."
05 January 2011, 01:46
juanpozzivery nice ,please continue posting
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10 January 2011, 04:49
chrystechoutstanding pics. may i ask where they were taken.
Larry
