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do you gut a duck or pheasant or quail or goose immediatly after shooting, like even in a duck blind?

Question by pascal. Uploaded on July 02, 2009

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from huntcamp wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

No, I always wait until after the hunt.

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from Elmer Fudd wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Birds in general seem to be a type of game where gutting them quick is unimportant. In fact the traditional things the Brits [used to?] do is leave the guts in the pheasants and such for some period of time while they hung them.

the bigger birds like turkeys you will want to gut the same day but there really is no hurry.

One hint: open up the throat and get the stuff out of the crop!

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from Del in KS wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Last fall at the Borough market in London I saw meat vendors with dead pheasants for sale. Like Elmer said they had their feathers and guts intact. I never gut them until I get home. They don't spoil like a deer or elk.

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from fields wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Hurry home while its still warm. Then you can stand on the wings and pull up on the legs and skin it in a jiffy leaving the nice juicy meat!

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from JOHN ANDERSON wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

I've always hung my waterfowl.the colder the longer.as for doves,quail.Im used to putting them in the cooler quicker.and phesants wait till the end of the hunt day.happy hunting.

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from matouse3 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Never bother until I get home.

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from Scott in Ohio wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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No, we always wait until after the hunt. With waterfowl we hang'em for 3 days (in the shade) before we clean them in cool weather.

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from hunter99 wrote 2 years 30 weeks ago

i hunt duck and geese, i clean them after im done hunting.

good easy quick way is to just slit below the skin on the breast but dont slit the meat and just pull the skin of and you got two breast for eating.

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from blackdawgz wrote 2 years 1 week ago

Upland birds yes, waterfowl, no. Keeping upland birds too warm risks spoiling. Waterfowl are usually taken in freezing conditions. Besides, if you gut that duck or goose, they's gonna stink.

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from Elmer Fudd wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Birds in general seem to be a type of game where gutting them quick is unimportant. In fact the traditional things the Brits [used to?] do is leave the guts in the pheasants and such for some period of time while they hung them.

the bigger birds like turkeys you will want to gut the same day but there really is no hurry.

One hint: open up the throat and get the stuff out of the crop!

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from huntcamp wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

No, I always wait until after the hunt.

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from Del in KS wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Last fall at the Borough market in London I saw meat vendors with dead pheasants for sale. Like Elmer said they had their feathers and guts intact. I never gut them until I get home. They don't spoil like a deer or elk.

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from fields wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Hurry home while its still warm. Then you can stand on the wings and pull up on the legs and skin it in a jiffy leaving the nice juicy meat!

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from JOHN ANDERSON wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

I've always hung my waterfowl.the colder the longer.as for doves,quail.Im used to putting them in the cooler quicker.and phesants wait till the end of the hunt day.happy hunting.

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from matouse3 wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

Never bother until I get home.

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from Scott in Ohio wrote 2 years 31 weeks ago

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No, we always wait until after the hunt. With waterfowl we hang'em for 3 days (in the shade) before we clean them in cool weather.

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from hunter99 wrote 2 years 30 weeks ago

i hunt duck and geese, i clean them after im done hunting.

good easy quick way is to just slit below the skin on the breast but dont slit the meat and just pull the skin of and you got two breast for eating.

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from blackdawgz wrote 2 years 1 week ago

Upland birds yes, waterfowl, no. Keeping upland birds too warm risks spoiling. Waterfowl are usually taken in freezing conditions. Besides, if you gut that duck or goose, they's gonna stink.

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