who likes snow goose?
 

does anyone eat snow geese?
because i kill 500 of em' a year and idk what to do with them

What do you do with them all. I hope they are not wasted. See people make balogna out of them and jerky.

I hope you are not wasting 500 geese a year! You can make jerky, sausage, balogna and you can have them smoked like a ham. And, if you are inland you can roast them, they taste fine after they are off the salt water for a while.

okay thanks, and no i usually sell them or make jerky but we get to much

Sell snow geese. Is that legal? More power to you, promoting the use of game. Just don't get into trouble.

You sell them!!! It is a federal crime to sell waterfowl and a state crime to sell game in every state I am aware of. I hope a couple of feds have already seen your post and are tracking you down right now. That should be good for a loss of license for about 10 years. In fact The moderators should forward this information to the proper authorities.

we give them to a local guy who works for DNR so i dont think its a big deal

"i usually sell them" Your words, no one elses.

You said you sell them, now you say you are giving them away. Which is it? If you are selling them, it doesn't matter who you are selling them to, you would both be in violation of the law and the guy in the DNR should be out of a job. It is a big deal!

Enough Oldtimr he got your point!


JW

The dogs like them just fine. They aren't bad made into sausage or keilbasi, or mixed with ground beef for burgers or chili.

okay thanks

Relax a little. Goodness sakes!

If you brine them, they're good in any waterfowl recipe. I like'em shish-kebabed after marinating in Italian salad dressing. Simple and good, as long as you don't cook them past medium rare.

Thank you!


OP- one word: kielbasa.

Yeah, let's just chill on the dude committing felonies????? [Deleted by JW - reason language]????:poke:

Well, I've eaten more than a few of them and I found them good. If I didn't I wouldn't shoot one ever again. Failure to fully utilize all wild game taken merely gives a large amount of ammo for the antis to shoot back at us.

Up here, the limit is 20 daily and 80 possession for Snows. I actually prefer them over Canadas. Soups, stews, jerky, stirfry, roasting, the list is endless. We usually share the bounty with the land owners that have given us permission to hunt their land.
Eighty is plenty enough.

Ron

that's why I don't hunt them damn dirty ducks. they just taste fowl to me.

I don't care for mallards but teal, woodies and widgeon are good tablefare. I've heard pintails and canvasbacks are too but I've never tried them. Not too many of those around the areas I did most my duck hunting. For what it is worth, I shot a Tundra Swan last year and it was fantastic!

I don't think there is a better eating duck than teal. Canvasbacks are very good. Unfortunately, I doubt any of us will ever get to eat a canvasback that has been gourging on wild celery which gave them the flavor they were famous for back in market hunting days. The wild celery is about gone from the Chesapeake bay. The only duck I ever tried to eat and could not was a shoveler. The problem with water fowl, even more than other game is people have a tendency to way over cook them which destroys the flavor and makes them like rubber. If a duck breast isn't deep pink inside, it is over cooked. Also plucking and leaving the skin on makes for better eating, especially on those late season birds with lots of fat under the skin. There are times when ducks will feed on something that will give them a bad taste, usually divers but it is possible with all of them. Atlantic Brant taste like low tide smells when they are feeding on sea lettuce in the salt water bays. Get them on fresh water for a week or so and it is a whole new ball game and many of the oldtimers like them better than Canadas.

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Actually that has changed. In the regular late summer/fall season the daily limit is 50 and possession is "no limit".

You can't give them away to the local land owners where I live. No one wants them. They are called flying rats by many of the locals. In any event I find they cook up fine if you marinade them.

The things with snow geese is the wildlife managers want a pile of them killed because of the over population and the damage it is doing in the arctic. This need is tempered by traditional bag limits and lack of shooters. Then there is the problem of what do you do with all these birds?

In the most areas wasting them is not an option as you will get charged and even if you were allowed to just dump them............ most of us would have a problem wrapping our minds around that morally due to the way we were raised.

It is a complicated issue that will most likely be resolved by the population crashing.

When my dad used to run a processing store. He would make this crew a total of 2-1/2 tons of goose sausage at the end of each season!!!!!!!! They would give it away as Christmas gifts to those who allowed them to hunt on their property. They never had a complaint!!!

Try them in a pulled pork recipe,
soak them in salt water overnight, then put in crock pot with chicken broth on high for 8-10 hours, then drain shred the meat which should fall apart and then added your bbq sauce the one I tasted was sweet baby ray's sweet hickory it was great tasted more like beef than snow goose!

For the past couple months, I've been brining everything that goes on the smoker or grill; I even brined a pork shoulder which cooked in the oven-it makes a world of difference!

the snow hunting has been awesome in NE Arkansas
using the HM 3" BB's and we have been stoning them

A few less snow geese in Idaho
 

Avian cholera:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/...0MD09620150317

I've eaten Canadians and domestic and loved them both. Are the snowies considered greasy? (a common complaint from those that don't know how to cook a goose) Or is it just a flavor thing that people don't like.

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If I lived closer to Rushville, I'd take some off your hands.

Its a flavor thing. I shoot them upon occasion with my buddies and have made them in kabobs and stir fry just like my canada geese. Not I nor anyone else knows the difference. I use Creamy Zesty Italian dressing to marinate them while they are frozen.

Spring snow geese flying back north taste way better the. Fall geese coming south. When they come of the rice fields down in Arkansas and the lower states they have a way different taste. It's all about what they're feeding on. I'll never shoot a snow in the fall again.

Snow geese normally come back to a field until the sustenance is depleted. On the other hand, they have great recollections and won't come back to a spot where they have been shot at. Discovering a hot field and setting out fakes may bring about a few fruitful hunting; a nighttime, morning and potentially another night. After that, the winged creatures are gone and its back to scouting.

All dark meat and all lean. For pulled pork, try them on low on a slow cooker for 14 hrs with apple juice(enough to cover the meat). then add the BBQ sauce for an hour, top with coleslaw on fresh Kaiser buns. Make a soup with legs and thighs . Thousands of recipes.

Ron

we were very successful this spring in harvesting the snows
we used HM BB's and had very few cripples

I been reading into this and been getting great insight if I ever do hunt geese, but you folks are killing this carolina man with all that BBQ sauce. You need to get some vinegar in your pulled pork or it wont sooth the soul.