Duck as a survival food?

[Bushman5]

He was givin you hyperbole for the ha ha factor.

I can't walk in some parks without steppin in the goose crap, but be damned if I can get close enough to shoot one during open season.

I was being serious actually, a few years back there was a permissive cull here in BC, as the population of canada geese exploded. You could take them legally as vermin, off the record they were food.........

 

[untamed]

Hey, I'm Asian and duck and goose is pure yuuummmmmmm (especially basted and slow cooked with pineapple juice, tomato and soy sauce and spices)! Oh if this were only in the Food/Drink and Cooking subforum

But since this is W&SS, Brad the Butcher's method (post #19) seems to be the universal way. Wild duck is a heckuvalot gamier though. I really suggest packing some ginger powder for seasoning or boil them with ginger root and bay leaves to chase some taste/smell away.

 

[Toucan Oasis]

come on up to canada, you can shoot all the canada geese you want. They are classified as vermin here, way overpopulated.

When I lived in Virginny I used to snipe those geese with my bow.
In a golf course. At night.
Just skin them out,snatch the leg quarters and cut out the breast "roasts".

 

[hollowdweller]

I have about 20 muscovy ducks. They taste great but you have to skin them.

 

[PayetteRucker]

When I lived in Virginny I used to snipe those geese with my bow.
In a golf course. At night.
Just skin them out,snatch the leg quarters and cut out the breast "roasts".

There are alot of expansive marshy areas in Wisconsin that see literally millions of Canadian Geese within just a square mile. In early October, I doubt you could fire off a 12 guage shotgun with any sort of bird shot and not drop at least 2 geese. Heck even downtown Boise we have gargoyle canadian geese, they fight each other for overlook spots on the corners of tall buildings to watch all the activities downtown. Pretty interesting, it's like a crazy chess game that goes on from sunup to sun down, geese teaming up with each other to chase other geese away from the best perches, and then stabbing their partners in the back by forcing them off the edge. It's hillarious to watch, and the fact that they destroy every green inch with their acidic droppings just compounds their rediculous numbers. I wouldn't be against killing a goose in a survival situation at all.

 

[banana-clip]

Wild duck is good eating. I grew up in Nebraska hunting ducks, mostly mallards, and we would eat them all the time. They tasted great if you cooked them right.

 

[PayetteRucker]

In the oven, I stick em in a glass 9x9 glazed with red wine and ginger ale. You won't eat a juicier duck. Great with a New Belgium 1554!