Do you eat mergansers?
12-27-2007, 04:30 AM
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: woodbury CT woodbury ct
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Do you eat mergansers?
Had another nice day out yesterday. Shot a few mergansers, BIL got some too and another hen mallard. Shoulda had a goose. It came outta nowhere. Landed in the spread then wouldn't fly!Oh well. Let it go for another day.
Anyways. My BIL said the mergs tasted crappy. But I hate not eating something I harvested. So I go home clean the mallard. Goto clean my first merg and the smell overtakes me. Something along the lines of tunacan water and swamp muck. The meat looked like beef liver (which I like) but I got through it and their in the freezer (boned out).
Any tips or suggestions? or am I in for a "Real Treat"
I gotta a feeling they'll taste like they smell.
Anyways. My BIL said the mergs tasted crappy. But I hate not eating something I harvested. So I go home clean the mallard. Goto clean my first merg and the smell overtakes me. Something along the lines of tunacan water and swamp muck. The meat looked like beef liver (which I like) but I got through it and their in the freezer (boned out).
Any tips or suggestions? or am I in for a "Real Treat"
I gotta a feeling they'll taste like they smell.
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12-27-2007, 04:11 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
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Location: Somewhere in Michigan
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RE: Do you eat mergansers?
ORIGINAL: rbduck
In Manitoba, the only time we eat them is after they have spent at least a month eating wildrice. Then they are pretty good.
Ron
In Manitoba, the only time we eat them is after they have spent at least a month eating wildrice. Then they are pretty good.
Ron
Dont fib I know you canucks get enough yummy grain fed honkers and plump mallards you'd never shoot a poopy mergie! Heck andy and his bunch even call widgies and teal Sheeit ducks and teal are one of my favs!
12-27-2007, 04:37 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
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Location: Winnipeg Manitoba Canada
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RE: Do you eat mergansers?
ORIGINAL: Carpmaster
Ron,
Dont fib I know you canucks get enough yummy grain fed honkers and plump mallards you'd never shoot a poopy mergie! Heck andy and his bunch even call widgies and teal Sheeit ducks and teal are one of my favs!
ORIGINAL: rbduck
In Manitoba, the only time we eat them is after they have spent at least a month eating wildrice. Then they are pretty good.
Ron
In Manitoba, the only time we eat them is after they have spent at least a month eating wildrice. Then they are pretty good.
Ron
Dont fib I know you canucks get enough yummy grain fed honkers and plump mallards you'd never shoot a poopy mergie! Heck andy and his bunch even call widgies and teal Sheeit ducks and teal are one of my favs!
uh.....it`s just a rumour
Ron
12-27-2007, 06:35 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: NW Ohio , 5 min from Ottawa National / Magee Marsh
Posts: 2,051
RE: Do you eat mergansers?
I turn them into SPICY snack sticks
The mix I use will cover the taste of divers and Merg's
Have to do something with them , when your buddys think they are Woodies and shoot them
John
The mix I use will cover the taste of divers and Merg's
Have to do something with them , when your buddys think they are Woodies and shoot them
John
