well since 90% of the spots we're mine. Scouted by me. Set up by me. Most all the gear used...mine. And my dog did all the work, I appointed myself the fucking king of the universe.RonE wrote:Redbeard wrote:...who don't eat duck. I'm curious. What're your feelings on guys who hunt ducks....shoot a lot of ducks...but don't eat them? Or give them away? Or leave them all with another guy in the group? Had this problem with a guy we've hunted with a lot over the years. Finally culled him from the group
What say you?
You culled him from the group...........Who in the fuck appointed you god or king of the universe?
Is there anyone here that doesn't like or eat liver? To me, ducks are like flying liver. It is only in the past few years that I have found a couple of recipes for duck that I like. In the past I gave all the ducks I shot away, even if I had to clean and pick them, in fact I used to pay to have them picked so that I could give them away.
Why do I hunt ducks?......Because it is fun to kill them, fun to shoot a shotgun, fun to hunt with friends and fun to watch the duck splash and the dog retrieve. When I lived in California, I used to use most of the ducks I shot for dog training. I feel very strongly that game shouldn't be wasted, it should be utilized for something and I can't think of a time that I have knowingly wasted any game that I have shot.
I now keep most of the ducks I shoot, but I don't pick them, only breast them and marinate the breast and fry them, pound the breasts and wrap them around jalapeno pepper and cream cheese with bacon and grill them or my new favorite way is to smoke the breast and eat it as an appetizer.
I don't neither judge nor fault anyone that kills game and doesn't eat it so long as he doesn't waste it. So get off your fucking high horse and think about it rather than just reacting. It is pretty easy to have a "holier than thou" attitude and it is also easy to jump to conclusions but you might try to consider things from others viewpoints.
If you've got plans set up prior with folks to take your ducks that's one thing. But after a big hunt you say "Ahh I ain't got the time to clean these birds so I won't take any home" you eventually get culled from the group in my universe
And Ron when you start forgetting where you are and shitting your pants in the blind, those party animals you hunt with are gonna cull you from the group