Waterfowl Photos

[gimruis]

Haha.  Perhaps lacking some trust, can't deny it.

[Kettle]

Shot some greater dark geese and some mini versions of them today

[smurfy]

dang......there aint gonna be any waterfowl to migrate left!!!!!!!!! 

 

nice going!!!!!!!!!!1

[Mike89]

2 hours ago, smurfy said:

dang......there aint gonna be any waterfowl to migrate left!!!!!!!!! 

 

nice going!!!!!!!!!!1

yes awesome!!!  

[Kettle]

3 hours ago, smurfy said:

dang......there aint gonna be any waterfowl to migrate left!!!!!!!!! 

 

nice going!!!!!!!!!!1

Got a ways to go north American duck and goose numbers above 55 million. I will have plenty of meat for the winter

[leech~~]

30 minutes ago, Kettle said:

Got a ways to go north American duck and goose numbers above 55 million. I will have plenty of meat for the winter

Plenty of ducks and geese's in the Kettle this winter you say!  

[smurfy]

Kettle... remembering you shot sandhills,, my brother was saying a friend of his does alot of waterfowl hunting also. He has told people he hunts with if they get a sandhill anywhere near his dogs he'd do serious bodily harm to them.

 

This guy claims sandhill cranes are  flea infested creatures. 

 

You have any ideas? It's just what he was told 

[Kettle]

My buddy has a Chesapeake retriever but we don't bring him with crane hunting for that reason. They have an affinity for stabbing dogs eyes out. Typically if they aren't completely dead when they hit the ground they don't run like geese. I typically hit em with my barrel and that finishes them. I've had them try and stab me or kick me with their spurs.

We killed one goose hunting with my buddies dog and it was dead. He wouldn't pick it up just barked at it. Must smell way different than ducks.

I guess they have mites but haven't noticed them. Never seen them on them or the meat and never see "rice breast" on them.

My buddies dog is named teddy after Teddy Roosevelt. He went 231/232 ducks and geese retrieves this year.

[Mike89]

they are quit the dog!!!!   

[Kettle]

27 minutes ago, Mike89 said:

they are quit the dog!!!!   

They are quite the dog. He's an absolute machine, well trained, never breaks early. They have a reputation for being stubborn and mean but that dog is just friendly and would hunt everyday all day if he could. Fortunate that he comes with on the trips we go on. 

[Kettle]

[Mike89]

his eyes say it all!!!  

[gimruis]

19 hours ago, Kettle said:

He wouldn't pick it up just barked at it. Must smell way different than ducks.

 

Many years ago it was legal to shoot cormorants.  My Grandfather at the time also had a chesapeake bay retriever and he said that dog would retrieve anything in the worst conditions.

 

One time he told me he shot a cormorant.  The dog swam out out there and refused to pick it up.  Apparently because they are so nasty, stinky, and greasy.   He said its the only bird that dog would not retrieve in 11 years.

[Kettle]

They definitely are stinky birds, the cormorant that is. The Sandhills don't really smell. When you clean them it smells more like venison than waterfowl. We figured he wouldn't pick it up since they must smell similar to chickens and my buddy has trained the Chesapeake to not go after their chickens at home

[leech~~]

On 11/27/2024 at 1:08 PM, Kettle said:

They definitely are stinky birds, the cormorant that is. The Sandhills don't really smell. When you clean them it smells more like venison than waterfowl. We figured he wouldn't pick it up since they must smell similar to chickens and my buddy has trained the Chesapeake to not go after their chickens at home

Do you guys eat cormorant?  Even Indians call them fisheaters, and they don't eat fisheaters!

[Kettle]

4 hours ago, leech~~ said:

Do you guys eat cormorant?  Even Indians call them fisheaters, and they don't eat fisheaters!

I have not eaten one, they are protected generally here in the states and Canada although there have been special seasons for population control but I don't think it was harvested for meat. I've hunted in countries where they are not protected and was with someone who shot one, I didn't eat it but it just stunk after I picked it up.