Another Local Hunt

[Feathers and Fins]

Dont post it on the Fuge Brother or every Tom Dick and Guide will be all over all of us like they are for the spring snows... By the way NICE PILE and 6th on bottom from left just has to be a 20lber lol.

[Bird Watcher]

Dont post it on the Fuge Brother or every Tom Dick and Guide will be all over all of us like they are for the spring snows... By the way NICE PILE and 6th on bottom from left just has to be a 20lber lol.

Lol. I haven't put a picture up over there in 3 or 4 years, or a report for that matter. I figure it's relatively safe here on a fishing site. It's still the internet, but this place is a little more obscure of a place to post pictures of hunts and tell stories. If I was over there it'd be NO Water, NO ducks.

Yes. Had to of been a 20#. Grey eyebrow, breeding stock from the secluded back bays of Minnesota. Sucker couldn't stay airborne for more than 30 yds at a time.

[Clayton Bass]

You have more birds on that tail gate than I've seen in Newton county all year, but I leave for work before dawn and get back after dark. I've done all my hunting on family land this year over in Barry County, haven't been setting any harvest records for sure. Introducing my oldest son to waterfowl hunting this year so all my shots have to be at ducks setting in the decoys. I don't think he is good enough with a shotgun yet to shoot them in flight.

[Bird Watcher]

You have more birds on that tail gate than I've seen in Newton county all year, but I leave for work before dawn and get back after dark. I've done all my hunting on family land this year over in Barry County, haven't been setting any harvest records for sure. Introducing my oldest son to waterfowl hunting this year so all my shots have to be at ducks setting in the decoys. I don't think he is good enough with a shotgun yet to shoot them in flight.

I hear ya. Me too. Most of the time I've been doing a little scouting on Saturdays and trying to get a little hunt in on Sunday. The places we've been hunting in Newt. are all real close to my Dad's house, so he's been doing most of the scouting after work and on lunch, etc. We've had some good luck down in the sticks this year. We've been pleasantly suprised a few times with how the hunts turn out after having low expectations. It's the same little flock of resident geese though and every once in awhile some ducks get mixed in with them.

[bigredbirdfan]

How will you prepare those geese in order to eat that many? I really don't care for goose. I thought about slicing it thin and making into jerkey somehow and try that. I guess goose summer sausage might work too.

[Bird Watcher]

How will you prepare those geese in order to eat that many? I really don't care for goose. I thought about slicing it thin and making into jerkey somehow and try that. I guess goose summer sausage might work too.

You know Big Red, I used to be the same way, but I decided that if I was going to hunt them I was going to start figuring out some ways to make them palatable. What I figured out was I had been cooking them wrong the whole time.

Here's a list of my fav's

Goose salad - (picture Tuna salad or Chicken salad only with shredded goose) The women love this recipe. I can't make it fast enough for them. Eaten on ritz crackers or toast

Corned Goose - This disspears real quick too. We usually make a big batch and then vaccum pack them and break them out on fishing trips during the summer

Goose bratwurst - once again, disspears as fast as you make it

Pot Roast goose - with brown gravy, mashed potatoes and carrots

pulled BBQ goose - Cooked in apple juice

Goose Kabobs marinated cubes in Italian dressing

Goose Jerky

Goose gumbo

I personally think goose is one of the best meats a guy can get. It gets a bad rap. The secret is you either want to barely cook it (not past medium rare) or you want to cook the daylight out of it-until it breaks down. You don't want to stop in the middle. That's when it's tough and tastes like liver.

[Feathers and Fins]

My wife and I eat a ton of geese each year. I have had guys who swear goose is the most horrible thing they have eaten try mine and are begging for more. Like BW said its either Barely cooked or Fall apart or you get the liver taste. My favorite way to cook them is simple.

Fillet out the breast and soak them 24 hours in Mcormicks Rotisary Chicken and Accent about 1/2 bottle of McKormicks and 2 teaspons Accent.

Take them out and rinse well. Place them in a baking bag with the other half of the bottle of McKormics 1/4 cup water add some carrots and taters and bake at 350 for 1 hour

Taste like a roast ive been told.

They key for me is fillet them as fast after shooting as possible to that end i fillet the breast out right there leaving it attached to the skin but seperating it from the body with a ziplock bag so no internal juices can get to it. Makes a world of differance.

[Feathers and Fins]

Chris if you posted on there they would be crying, I love tormenting people on there as they take life way to serious and many have the IM THE BEST ATTITUDE or Black Hoody envy... I personaly think the pics and stories ive read here this year have been much better than anything ive seen there in years. Real stories of guys having fun to me thats what its all about. Now we need to think about some Thunder Chicken hunts lol.

[Clayton Bass]

Probably out of the same flock of resident geese I used to see all the time on the way to work when I worked a different shift.

[bigredbirdfan]

You know Big Red, I used to be the same way, but I decided that if I was going to hunt them I was going to start figuring out some ways to make them palatable. What I figured out was I had been cooking them wrong the whole time.

Here's a list of my fav's

Goose salad - (picture Tuna salad or Chicken salad only with shredded goose) The women love this recipe. I can't make it fast enough for them. Eaten on ritz crackers or toast

Corned Goose - This disspears real quick too. We usually make a big batch and then vaccum pack them and break them out on fishing trips during the summer

Goose bratwurst - once again, disspears as fast as you make it

Pot Roast goose - with brown gravy, mashed potatoes and carrots

pulled BBQ goose - Cooked in apple juice

Goose Kabobs marinated cubes in Italian dressing

Goose Jerky

Goose gumbo

I personally think goose is one of the best meats a guy can get. It gets a bad rap. The secret is you either want to barely cook it (not past medium rare) or you want to cook the daylight out of it-until it breaks down. You don't want to stop in the middle. That's when it's tough and tastes like liver.

Would you share the goose brat and jerky recipes?

Thanks for the information.

KP returns 2/19 with Season #3. Can't wait.