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Old 11-01-2009, 10:08 AM
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Default Do you shoot spoonbills

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


I marinate and bacon wrap my (trash ducks).
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Old 11-01-2009, 10:19 AM
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Awww yeah! ill knock em down when they fly in
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Old 11-01-2009, 10:22 AM
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Scaup take the cake though a spoonbill is just a little bit smarter lol
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Old 11-01-2009, 10:28 AM
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Coots aswell...they call me the coot cripler
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Old 11-01-2009, 10:49 AM
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Shoot that duck
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Old 11-01-2009, 11:09 AM
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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.
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Old 11-01-2009, 12:25 PM
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Ditto Ray, check the skin. If we don't shoot them, they will keep multiplying, and you know the rest of the story!
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Old 11-01-2009, 12:43 PM
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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.
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Old 11-01-2009, 01:35 PM
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Had lease down in kaplan two years ago spoonys used to rain from the sky.
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Old 11-01-2009, 02:19 PM
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I have seen days when you have to shoot a couple to finish off a limit.
Or go in lite.
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Old 11-01-2009, 03:03 PM
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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.
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Old 11-01-2009, 03:04 PM
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Spoonys when they have the "rice breastezz" i give to my coonazz neighbors..
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Old 11-01-2009, 03:19 PM
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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.
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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"
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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....



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They are target ducks....Seems you never miss one!!
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Old 11-01-2009, 06:21 PM
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They are target ducks....Seems you never miss one!!
If you hit one, the others will circle back and land with the dead one.
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Old 11-01-2009, 06:32 PM
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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!!!!
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