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do you gut a duck or pheasant or quail or goose immediatly after shooting, like even in a duck blind?
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No, I always wait until after the hunt.
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!
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.
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!
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.
Never bother until I get home.
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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.
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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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!
No, I always wait until after the hunt.
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.
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!
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.
Never bother until I get home.
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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.
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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