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Offline willysjeep134

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« on: November 03, 2004, 04:57:48 PM »
I just got into waterfowl hunting. I was paging through my hunting regs book and noticed that along with ducks and geese, Michigan offers seasons for shore birds. Does anybody hunt shore birds any more? I have found a few recipes for birds like coot and snipe on-line. I was thinking that if I had a free few hours after school some day I might go try to locate some of those snipe or coot. Apparently some people eat them, and I gather that they were once popular to hunt. Mabey there is some hidden pleasure in this pursuit. Anybody out there have experience with hunting and/or eating shore birds or mergansers?
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« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2004, 05:18:44 PM »
snipe and rails are sorta like doves... not hard to clean or eat... i've heard of people eating coots but i've never tried it myself... they're stupid and easy to shoot, but i don't know what to do with them after that... mergansers are fishy... i don't shoot them if i can help it...
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« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2004, 04:21:18 PM »
Willy

We have open season on them as well.  I have always wondered the same thing concerning how to hunt them.  I posted a question once on another sight and no one could answer.

Good luck and stay away from Mergs.
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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2004, 05:23:44 PM »
i've killed a lot of coots driving them just like pheasants... get several guys and walk a marsh... it's painfullly easy shooting, infact in college we'd have "the annual coot shoot" and everybody would buy 1 box of 6s... we'd put 10$ each in a pot and the winner was the guy who killed the most coots with his box of shells... we'd hit the the big public marsh south of Kansas City on the sunday afternoon after the opener and be done in time to set up for the evening duck shoot...

it's actually a lot of fun, take a grill, make it an evening
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