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Hooded Merganser Meat

Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:38 pm
Posted by Sir Saint
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Member since Jun 2010
5471 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:38 pm
Me and my buddy went hunting this afternoon and knocked down some woodies, couple mallards, and 2 hooded mergansers.

We breasted all of them, but I wasnt sure if mergansers were any good to eat.

TIA
Posted by mylsuhat
Mandeville, LA
Member since Mar 2008
49841 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:41 pm to
marinate and bacon wrap on the grill and youre good to go
Posted by hehatedrew
New Zealand
Member since Oct 2009
25504 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:42 pm to
Anything is good with cream cheese, jalapeno, and bacon wrapped around it...
Posted by Head Hog
Close enough to the Buffalo
Member since Oct 2009
471 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:49 pm to
NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Posted by hehatedrew
New Zealand
Member since Oct 2009
25504 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:50 pm to
Yeah, we always see them with coots and shovelers on catfish ponds. They are shite eaters. I would imagine that they taste like it...
Posted by JBlood9
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
2478 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:57 pm to
no the best meat. But with some marinade and the previous stated recipes, your fine. I wouldn't waste them for sure...
Posted by choupiquesushi
yaton rouge
Member since Jun 2006
33900 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 9:59 pm to
Merganser is Choctaw for flying sushi
Posted by tigerbandman11
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2008
55 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 10:18 pm to
fry it like fish,cook alil brim. you'll never know the difference.
Posted by RockChalkTiger
A Little Bit South of Saskatoon
Member since May 2009
11057 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 10:49 pm to
Marinate in salt and vinegar.

Grill or pan fry.

Feed to the dog.
Posted by NicoBlues
I eat frogs
Member since Dec 2009
15048 posts
Posted on 12/6/10 at 10:55 pm to
Ive heard, like shovelers, they will eat grain early in the year. But depending on where they are, they will start eating fish later in the year. I say depending on where you are, because I would never eat one out of a crawfish pond or lake. Maybe in a rice field, but...... Probably not.
Posted by Da Hammer
Folsom
Member since May 2008
5970 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 6:56 am to
best eating duck out there! Better than teal and wood duck!

If you are married and you cook the mergansers in the house you likely won't be married after you are finished! Although mergansers taste simmilar to sardines they are pretty birds. I use them for dog training throughout the year.

Oh and before post nazi's get me a merganser isn't a duck.
Posted by tigerdup07
Member since Dec 2007
22263 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 6:59 am to
this is how you cook morganser:
fix you a big glass of whiskey.
fill pot with water and boil on high.
add morgansers.
boil water all the way out.
fill pot again halfway with water.
boil water all the way out again.
fill pot 25% water.
when it comes to a boil:

THROW THE WHOLE frickING THING AWAY.
Posted by staugslugga
New Orleans
Member since Feb 2005
835 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 7:12 am to
Mergansers are 'Neighbor Ducks.'

Clean em real nice. Package them good. Give em to your neighbor and tell your unknowing/unhunting neighbor he's getting some nice ducks.

It'll earn you a nice meal for free in the future.
Posted by tigerdup07
Member since Dec 2007
22263 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 7:24 am to
quote:

Clean em real nice. Package them good. Give em to your neighbor and tell your unknowing/unhunting neighbor he's getting some nice ducks.

It'll earn you a nice meal for free in the future.


nice.

for the record, to all, if a duck eats fish, it's not a duck that you want to eat.

Posted by NASA_ISS_Tiger
Huntsville, Al via Sulphur, LA
Member since Sep 2005
8213 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 7:24 am to
quote:

Hooded Merganser Meat
this is how you cook morganser:
fix you a big glass of whiskey.
fill pot with water and boil on high.
add morgansers.
boil water all the way out.
fill pot again halfway with water.
boil water all the way out again.
fill pot 25% water.
when it comes to a boil:

THROW THE WHOLE frickING THING AWAY.

You forgot to DRINK the whiskey!
Posted by tigerdup07
Member since Dec 2007
22263 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 7:25 am to
quote:

You forgot to DRINK the whiskey!


sorry. i meant that's the only reason to cook my recipe. just so you can drink by the stove.

Posted by Choirboy
On your property
Member since Aug 2010
10779 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 7:44 am to
They make great target practice and good exercise for the dog. That is the end of the road for their usefullness. I throw them to the turtles.

Like mentioned before, They are not a duck and you do not add them to your daily duck limit.
Posted by Ole Geauxt
KnowLa.
Member since Dec 2007
50880 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 7:53 am to
quote:

They make great target practice
Also recyleable... Go pick them up and bring back into blind.. When action is slow, yell "PULL", buddy chunks them and you get to choot em again...
Posted by bayoudude
Member since Dec 2007
25854 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 7:55 am to
Might be able to dice it and use it as an anchovy substitute on pizza
Posted by VernonPLSUfan
Leesville, La.
Member since Sep 2007
17591 posts
Posted on 12/7/10 at 8:48 am to
We have several that stay on our cities oxyidation ponds at night and fly to the lake we hunt in the morning. I'm sure they are flavorable.
Good duck to teach a dog to retrieve.
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