Tastiest game bird?

[R.C.BINGAMAN]

Ever try a beer can pheasant. R.C.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Ever try a beer can pheasant.

Is that a euphemism for chicken? :haha: Like "city doves" is pidgeons? I ask as I've never had a pheasant large enought to stick a beer can inside? Do ya use a smaller container for the beer? Maybe an empty Redbull can with beer?

LD

 

[BillinOregon]

One I would like to try is sandhill crane, although I am so fond of the critters in the wild that I am not sure I'd want to shoot one. I have heard them called the beef steak in the sky.

 

[satx78247]

I feel the same about Wood Ducks. = They're just TOO PRETTY to shoot, imo.

yours, satx

 

[R.C.BINGAMAN]

Use a small can such as a tomato paste can or soup can, I done one this early summer and it turned out really good. The bird used was from a late Feb. hunt on a preserve hunt we do each year. R.C.

 

[fleener]

I have eaten sand hill crane before. It was good. It was cold in a fruit salad of all things.

I had a buddy that was working on his PhD and he used to host a supper bowl party. All these folks were wildlife biologist grad students. Everyone tried to out do the other one with exotic meat for the party.

Fleener

 

[Black Hand]

Definitely not a bird - try Muskrat...

 

[sidelock]

Young turkeys killed in the fall are better than any from a store. Blue grouse are mighty fine cooked up in elk camp with mashed potatoes gravy and biscuits.

 

[sidelock]

I've had it. Swamp rabbit---- real good. Aint much I haven't eaten.

 

[Nativearizonan]

Young turkeys killed in the fall are better than any from a store. Blue grouse are mighty fine cooked up in elk camp with mashed potatoes gravy and biscuits.

There is not much edible that wouldn't be good cooked up in elk camp with mashed potatoes gravy and biscuits. :thumbsup:

I think one can lump together all the white breasted non-migratory upland game birds, and claim they are the best eating. My most memorable meal was a single gambel quail I ate the first time I ever went backpacking alone at the age of 15. I plucked it and cooked it on a stick over the fire. I remember thinking at the time this was the best thing I'd ever eaten, even though I have eaten plenty of quail. There is something to be said for context.

My breakfast, otherwise, was a packet of instant oatmeal and a cup of tea.

 

[44-henry]

Shot lots of waterfowl in my youth and miss the Mallards that my grandmother prepared. Dirt simple, but very tasty. She would cut them into pieces and boil them for a bit. Following that they were rolled in seasoned flower and fried in butter. Served with wild rice they were a real treat. She did snow goose the same way.

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Well Alex, that sounds like my kind of recipe. Not trying to disguise the flavor of the meat with sauces and concoctions.

 

[Rifleman1776]

The English have a dish that's called "trail" and its the woodcock intestines still filled w/ earth worms. They're fried w/ seasoning to taste...

Ya gotta be kidding.... :barf:

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Our national dessert is apple pie, theirs is "spotted dick"

 

[satx78247]

Better EITHER than my Scottish Lowlander's National Dish: haggis. = That stuff makes me GAG.

yours, satx

 

[Black Hand]

Better EITHER than my Scottish Lowlander's National Dish: haggis. = That stuff makes me GAG.

I find it delicious...

 

[satx78247]

I'm glad that somebody actually thinks it so.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

I like haggis. I can’t say I’m a big fan of scotch, but haggis, oatmeal stout and fried oat cakes is a fine meal. Add in pipes and someone reading Burns aloud and it’s a fine evening.

 

[fleener]

I do not find woodcock worth eating itself, let alone their intestines.

Fleener

 

[nhmoose]

:metoo: