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duck77777
11-01-2009, 10:08 AM
Many people dont shoot them and I dont understand why. Me personally I kill them all and let god sort them out. :grinpimp:
B-Stealth
11-01-2009, 10:12 AM
Hollywoods, man I shoot em with a big fat smile on my face.


I marinate and bacon wrap my (trash ducks).
huntin fool
11-01-2009, 10:19 AM
Awww yeah! ill knock em down when they fly in
duck77777
11-01-2009, 10:22 AM
Scaup take the cake though a spoonbill is just a little bit smarter lol
huntin fool
11-01-2009, 10:28 AM
Coots aswell...they call me the coot cripler:shaking::shaking:
"W"
11-01-2009, 10:49 AM
Shoot that duck
Ray
11-01-2009, 11:09 AM
We clean them smilin' mallards and if the skin is pink, we chunk them in a crab pot. If not pink, they don't taste no differnt.

We always separated the scaup(butterballs) and cook them separately. Usually pot roasted. Them lil thangs are always fulla fat.
H2OFwlKlr
11-01-2009, 12:25 PM
Ditto Ray, check the skin. If we don't shoot them, they will keep multiplying, and you know the rest of the story!
Ray
11-01-2009, 12:43 PM
Our camp used to charge a $2 fee for every Spoonbill. That money paid for rice, onions and camp stuff we needed to cook with.
mallard matt
11-01-2009, 01:35 PM
Had lease down in kaplan two years ago spoonys used to rain from the sky.
Ray
11-01-2009, 02:19 PM
I have seen days when you have to shoot a couple to finish off a limit.
Or go in lite.
Nasty
11-01-2009, 03:03 PM
I use to hunt rice fields when I was younger. Most of the spoonbills had rice in their throats that were shot. The breasts were nice and plump. A spoony on a rice diet is a damb good eater.
huntin fool
11-01-2009, 03:04 PM
Spoonys when they have the "rice breastezz" i give to my coonazz neighbors..
Ray
11-01-2009, 03:19 PM
If your marshes are full of good grass, they will not eat fish.
If they are in an area full of fish and no grass, they will eat fish.

Diving ducks, fishy.
Puddle ducks, very good.
CatDaddy
11-01-2009, 03:59 PM
It depends what they been eating... If you kill one, you can tell if its bad by fulling some feathers away from the breast, and looking at it, and smelling it.. If its bad, just chunk it, and kill you another one (i know thats illeagle but.....).. if they not real red, and dont stink... thats a "good hollywood mequian"
all star rod
11-01-2009, 06:04 PM
They are target ducks....Seems you never miss one!!
yak'em-n-stack'em
11-01-2009, 06:18 PM
Trash
Ray
11-01-2009, 06:21 PM
They are target ducks....Seems you never miss one!!

If you hit one, the others will circle back and land with the dead one.
all star rod
11-01-2009, 06:32 PM
Spoons, I like to shoot them later in the season since the DRAKES have their colors. That way I can tell the difference between the Drakes and Hens.....I only SHOOT the hens....Trying to delete the population!!!!:grinpimp:
Marshrat
11-01-2009, 07:25 PM
It depends what they been eating... If you kill one, you can tell if its bad by fulling some feathers away from the breast, and looking at it, and smelling it.. If its bad, just chunk it, and kill you another one (i know thats illeagle but.....).. if they not real red, and dont stink... thats a "good hollywood mequian"


You said "smell it", well I had a lab when I was in school that would not pick up the spoonies that were bad. We figured this out when she would leave them on the pond, although she got her arse in trouble the first few times she left ducks on the pond until we figured out she knew which ones had a crustacean diet. I have found fish in mallards craws and never had one that was bad, but find one with a crawfish or clam and you could not stay in the house when cooking then. Another duck my dog never picked up was mergansers, didn't matter how much forcing you did, she would not pick them up....



Warren
Ray
11-01-2009, 07:27 PM
My yellow lab I had a few years ago would not pick up fishy ducks either.
It was mostly scaup and some teal.
RaginCagin
11-02-2009, 10:20 AM
My buddies all rag me b/c they wont shoot them but I blast every one that comes in. We hunt a flooded pasture surrounded by rice fields so they are generally always good. I can guarantee you no one knows the difference when it is in the pot.
Ray
11-02-2009, 10:31 AM
I keel dem.
Gerald
11-02-2009, 11:56 AM
I keel dem.

Posted at 9:31 AM..........so you are not fishing today????
"W"
11-02-2009, 12:14 PM
I keel dem.
:p
Ray
11-02-2009, 05:22 PM
Posted at 9:31 AM..........so you are not fishing today????

I want to, but I gotta mow the grass, take a heater back to the distributor and finish up my Honey Do List before I shove off to New Orleans tonight.
Gotta go back offshore for a week. The weather will be fantastic as long as I am offshore. Enjoy.
Wag
11-02-2009, 05:29 PM
Only when they come into the decoys
Wag
11-02-2009, 05:30 PM
Have ya'll ever noticed that you can't miss a spoonbill, they fold no mater what.
Micah
11-03-2009, 11:41 AM
Have ya'll ever noticed that you can't miss a spoonbill, they fold no mater what.
Yeah, i dont think i have ever crippled one, always one shot and they are drinking pond water.
RaginCagin
11-03-2009, 03:16 PM
Have ya'll ever noticed that you can't miss a spoonbill, they fold no mater what.

You cant miss them and you always find them. I winged one last year that floated about 150 yards from where I shot it before it landed. On the way out I decided to walk to where I saw him land just for the heck of it and sure enough he was exactly where I saw him land dead as could be. That would never happen with a big ol' green head.
SULPHITE
11-03-2009, 03:20 PM
That would never happen with a big ol' green head.

Thats the truth!
cajunman7925
11-05-2009, 09:25 AM
They all taste the same when they in a black iron pot!!
Shawn Braquet
11-05-2009, 09:52 AM
My don't shoot them but my gun loves them lol, nah I don't even think twice about it make it fall, it flies it dies