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Wednesday, July 21. 2010

Cape Cod duck hunting

It's time to plan hunting trips. I know of two guide services that host Cape Cod duck hunting - mostly, but not only, sea ducks. November-January:


Cape Cod Sportsmen and East Coast Guide Service.


The latter even offers an Eider recipe: Eider Cape Cod. If you aren't planning to eat 'em, you shouldn't shoot 'em.


Here's one of Capt. Perez' Eider hunts in Cape Cod. These guys are good shots, and make it look far easier than it is even though Eiders decoy readily:


 

Posted by Bird Dog in Hunting, Fishing, Dogs, Guns, etc., Our Essays at 12:30 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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What if you only want to stuff pillows with their feathers? Can you still shoot 'em?

That recipe omitted the traditional key ingredient, the old boot. Without the boot, once you throw away the fishy and incredibly tough sea duck breast, you have nothing to eat.
#1 David Zincavage (Link) on 2010-07-22 08:19 (Reply)
no for a boot, Dave. Even a merganser is good when breasted and not overcooked. Not so for oldsquaw which I tried with no luck.
Marc
#1.1 Marc Lapointe on 2010-07-22 09:35 (Reply)
Old story is to bake them on a brick. Then toss out breast, eat brick.

I would never eat a merganser. Shot two in my time, both by mistake.
#1.1.1 bd on 2010-07-22 10:05 (Reply)
I've had bad eatability experiences with scaup, let along eiders and mergansers.

Mergansers are definitely worth shooting though, just for the barred underwing feathers for fly-tying, especially Hoodies. I myself am seriously in the market for some Shoveller. It's a vital ingredient in the Brittania, a classic salmon fly pattern that once upon a time was found to effective on the Restigouche.
#2 David Zincavage (Link) on 2010-07-22 20:41 (Reply)
Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for guided services in the Cape Cod area.
#3 Goose Calls (Link) on 2010-09-01 04:17 (Reply)

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