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It's late in the eevening when you get home after a long day of hunting, also did some work between morning and evening hunts. Wanting to fix dinner, stow gear, etc. You have one bird. Let's say a bird common for your area (gadwall in this case). It's not shot up too bad, minimal feather loss, not hard mouthed by the dog. Getting ready to pluck and clean, but you're feeling exhausted, you really just want some food, a couch and a TV, you don't want to mess with cleaning a bird. Suddenly taxidermy comes to mind. Now the great debate: pluck it or stuff it, pluck or stuff, pluck or stuff....... Last night the decision was pluck. There is now a Greater Canada hanging in my office when the decision to stuff won out. I guess another way to ask this is has anyone else had a bird mounted mainly because you were too lazy to pluck it?  Caleb | ||
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I mounted one once because it had not been picked up out of the boat for a day and I wasn't sure about eating it. But that was when I thought you had to pull all the feathers off a bird in order to eat it. These days I just breast them out and don't pull more than two grabs of feathers before I slip in the knife. It takes less than one minute per bird unless my hands are cold. ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | |||
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Same here, fillet the bird out. No mounts unless the bird is special (super mature, event like Father/Son/Daughter hunt, special hunt/area, hybred etc). Option: gut the bird and stow in the fridge till tomorrow. If you remove the digestive organs, there will be no problems unless bile has entered a wound channel. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting 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#212108409 Natal: 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#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson 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." | |||
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Filet the breast, like Palmer said. Two minutes tops. Dulcinea What counts is what you learn after you know it all!!! | |||
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Breasting out is what I usually do for geese. Ducks it just depends on how I'm feeling as to full pluck or breasting; just a couple of times I've just felt REALLY lazy. Caleb | |||
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I've plucked a couple of birds but I prefer to skin them it's quicker & it's what I learned making museum study mounts. | |||
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Years ago used to fastidiously pluck and wax dip the birds. Now just breast them out and save the legs also...like another said, about 2-3 minutes per bird. | |||
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I don't buy into the long aging of birds but there is no problem leaving them over night or even for a couple days if it is cool. We often leave birds for a couple days just layed out on a cement floor in a cold area. They seem to pluck just as easy if not easier. The skin tightens and there is less problem with tearing the skin. It works well for upland game as well. The one exception is sharptails as they do smell bad enough to begin with . The other option for upland birds like sharpies or huns is to do the old step on the wings and pull trick, removing the breast which I then put in a pail of iced salt water. Then use shears to cut the thighs and you have basically all the good meat. The lower legs or drumsticks are so full of sinews they are hardly worth skining. What I like about this is the meat is all clean and cooled when I get home in case I develope a hunger. | |||
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