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I figured you may be catching bait but since bait is not allowed you can catch the forage so the guys can copy patterns for painting their lures , BilletHead

Yes the day we fished at jig Fest together if it had been warm neither of us would of had our heads covered and we would of blinded anyone that looked at our boat . I too am going to be better. Thanks Griz for the Public Service Announcement. BilletHead

Well done John! My bust is your boom. You deserve it buddy so ride it while you can. Love me some green wings. BilletHead

Those are not endangered you two. In Missouri they are a dime a dozen and actually an invasive introduced species. I concur pellets are a good answer. BilletHead

I know they are in the Sac River up from Truman oneshot. It would be hard to believe they are not in the Pomme, BilletHead

That and if you take out the now endangered yellow breasted mattress thrasher the po po can trace the weapon to you for conviction. The feds don't care about the bird pooping in your garage. They may even pay you to pick it up so they can study what they have been eating. BilletHead knows his birds

Your fault Ness. You showed me how to fix messed up posts , BilletHead

You still playing spin the bottle at your age? BilletHead

Thanks JD, I have never ran onto this digital mag but will be reading back issues and future ones. Kind of nice seeing familiar faces of friends in this issue. Duane and our other friends Boot Pierce and Terry Tanner! BilletHead

Found a couple sites for doing small ones sous vide and then making a coating then a quick finish / brown in oven. https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/recipe/sous-vide-prime-rib BilletHead

I can see that but we don't cook for an army anymore. That and if I suggest another gadget I may be in trouble. Kind of was until she seen what it turned into . Has anyone done a large like a three pound prime rib roast sous vide yet? Wanting to tackle that soon. BilletHead

Black eyed peas included with crappie, walleye taters and a much needed green salad , May all you foodies and foodie non posting spies have a prosperous upcoming new year! The BilletHead's

I bet that was pretty good. There will be no boiling of anything anymore in BiletHeadVille. Sous vide in vac bags. No sense diluting the flavor with water. When I sous vide the squirrel for the sandwich the meat was so sweet. For a real treat you should pressure can some. BilletHead

Part Billy goat but I draw the line at cans and aluminum foil. You got a fancy air rifle so eat some fancy food buddy . You can cook those tree rats so many ways beside frying. BilletHead

It is just another muscle and a tasty one at that but if we get hungry and you let us know of the next white bass fry we might drive up to Wrench city. Snagged there will be peas in todays menu but they will be called black eyed, BilletHead has a diet with variety

Living on the wild side, Venison heart tartar. Our first time experience with totally raw meat. I said to Pat do you like it? She says not sure what it is supposed to taste like . She had no problem shoving her portion into her pie hole and I didn't either, If you don't hear from us again it was good to know you all here on OAF !, BilletHead

That might just be arranged!

Back at you John and family. Oh I heard from a reliable source that has used some BilletHead goose fat in her tortillas (not Pat) that it works. If someone had remembered some of that fat at Jig Fest you could try of tried that too, BilletHead

Guess Yellow dog got a bad taste a couple years back ? BilletHead

Three days of good eats, Had company Thursday through this morning. Our good friends were here to visit and hunt some waterfowl. The eating was better than the hunting and eat we did! While they were traveling. Thursday morning Mrs. BilletHead and I began to brown eight squirrels for a double batch of Squirrel Aurora. Just got one picture and the feast got started faster than I could do a snap shot, So I had been telling Brad about Sous Vide. He could not comprehend what I was talking about calling it boiled meat and potted meat. So he says if I bring lamb chops could you do them? Yep buddy just season them up, vac seal and bring them on. We got them on in the early afternoon at 134 for two hours. As they were cooking he kept peeking in watching the magic. I would laugh as he shook his head. The girls got the potatoes going. Creamy spinach potatoes. Rich and so tasty. Heavy cream, spinach and parm cheese, what's not to like? Got a skillet hot and Brad seared the chops in grapeseed oil, I think I gained a few pounds just looking before eating:) . Last day Brad did a concoction he calls Chicken Smicken. Why? He just needed a name . He cleaned out the fridge one day and came up with this. Chicken breast butterflied, sprinkle on a dusting of dust from hell, sour cream, some salsa, white cheddar cheese, sliced mango and asparagus. This went into a 400 degree oven until chicken came to temp. I was apprehensive of this like he was the sous vide thing. Well somehow it worked. I began my taste test buy trying each item one at a time and then began to do combinations of each. it did work believe it or not, Looked funky but tasted great. Good food and good friendship, BilletHead

Our friends made the trip for three days to visit and try again to do some waterfowl hunting. I think this is eight years straight. We got two hunts in. One a no kill but a neat hunt. The other we succeeded in our try. I got to say it was the coldest hunts we have done and the girls bowed out and decided to keep warm. First place I had scouted the afternoon before. A field near one of the duck parks and less that a mile or two from a refuge. There was a party in that field. I called my farmer friend to ask if it was someone he knew and if he wanted me to stay out. He said he had given what he thought was a local permission to hunt one day and this was not it. He would call them and tell it would be used the next day by us. He then told me the number that was called from. I googled it up and the asker was from Arkansas. I watched the guys hunt. Many , many whitefronts worked the field, some ducks too. I had a couple hundred of the speckelbellies land not fifty yards from my truck. I suspected the hunter may of educated the birds day before and that they may of been avoiding his spread. About quitting time the guy got up and eight other hunters did too. The farmer called me again and asked if they were gone. I told him how many and they were leaving. Farmer suspected it was a guide and told him not to come back. So next afternoon Brad and I showed up and set up. Hard to hide in a disked corn field. Used rakes to work up cut stalks to aid in hiding. Tried to hide the blinds best we could. Decoys out we were ready. Soon we could see clouds of birds coming. Not a snow or a Canada to be seen . All Specklebellies and I men a bunch. They would bounce from field to field. Ducks too. We had opportunity to maybe take a few ducks working our spread but wanted specks. Well I can say I seen more specks that I have seen in my life in that hunt and never fired a shot. The would circle, set wings and each group would sail our way and then anyone who has hunted waterfowl knows that sound when something they see or sense wings start flapping and up they would go. I have a suspicion what might need to be done different. We had no snow decoys out but all or our bigfoot canadas, a couple dozen full bodied mallards and six speck full bodies. The ground was frozen solid and we had to drill holes for the decoys that needed stakes. Specks and ducks like snows. Next time I will be drilling like a crazy man to put out every silo sock snow decoy I have. Hope to try that field again. I kid you not we seen five to eight hundred specks that afternoon. Quite a sight. Next day we scouted all morning and finally found a field next to town we could hunt. Packed with canadas. Hunt would depend on how fast we could get home and eat. Well by the time we feasted it was too late for that option. At the house the owner of that place called and asked how we had done. I said we did not get to go but may try tomorrow. She said her son wanted to go if we were not. It old her we would not go in that case. She thanked me. I hope he got into them good! Pretty nice to have friends give you permission and it is important to keep them friends and for them to check with me because they had told me first to go. It was no brainer to back off . Then to yesterday Saturday. I told Brad it is up to you about a hunt today. It will be cold but I knew of a place we may score on canadas. Eat early and get there to set up and just wait them out. This field was even sparser with cover where the birds wanted to land. Disked corn with one inch wheat sprouted. There was a ditch that ended up in the field. Hoping that decoys would draw birds close enough to shoot we would set up there. We set out 46 bigfoot canadas and six specks. Brad has a thing about Canada geese and that is his preference so that was the target. We had ducks in and out but they would not commit. If we would of had spinners it would of been a duck hunt. Had one group dive buy that consisted of thirty or more birds. Close enough we could see ninety percent were drake mallards. Had singles and doubles set and roll out. I was beginning to think something was wrong here too? Soon geese started to fly and head towards the field. One group and then another until we had fifty to sixty birds swarming and coming down. Then I heard a vehicle coming down the road. It stopped, a truck running. A lookie loo watching the birds above us. He started moving making birds nervous then backed up, turned around and drove off his pipes singing loud motor sounds. He went one way and the geese another. Oh well . It is what it is. Some smaller groups started coming. A group of five low and hot wings set until they swung in the LZ fifteen yards out. Five foot off the ground we made the call. Three down and another took a hit. It slowly lost altitude and I lost it on the horizon what I guessed a quarter to a half mile away along the road and pasture. Brad scared off another group as he retrieved the three downed birds. A bit later another group we dropped two more. A few minutes before LST would end I went to the truck and drove down the road looking into the cow pasture and there was our sixth bird belly up. A two man limit! If I could attach these three pictures you would have a panoramic view of the set up, Our blinds are next to the weeds on last picture. Brad was happy with this, All big fat heavy birds. Official Goose Fest 2017 is history but he said if it got real good he would come back :), BilletHead

Good deal John! Got in two hunts with my buddy that makes it down for our Goose Fest. Report later and nice pile of birds, BilletHead

Love this Tho1mas, We have company and have been feasting. He was apprehensive about sous vide until yesterday. I changed his mind. He has an adult air rifle and am sure he will have a sousvide before it is all over with . So we talked last night about seasoning and sealing meat until ready for use. Have not done chicken yet and we buy thighs in bulk. We will do this season and freeze and have them ready, BilletHead

I second this. I seen some of the guys at jig fest set a trap and when it was checked you couldn't of squeezed another minnow/chub in that trap, BilletHead

I'm not sure on those items. Such a sticky deal with the feds. I know you cannot use the feathers for decretive purposes. I think the term is millenary ? I seen once on the show dirty jobs where he worked for a day at this type of cleaning service and they collected the feathers. I think in the post I made it said. Any person may possess, purchase, sell, barter, or transport for the making of fishing flies, bed pillows, and mattresses, and for similar commercial uses the feathers of migratory waterfowl (ducks, geese, brant, and swans) killed by hunting pursuant to this part. The nominal fee for cleaned birds I supposed would be cleaning fee like you would pay to get your bird done by a taxidermist , BilletHead