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re: Anyone ever use a Waterfowl Junkie H-2 Bird Hitch to clean ducks or geese?
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:38 am to Mac
Posted on 11/29/17 at 9:38 am to Mac
What does something like that cost?
I'll admit I used to be the guy who breasted most everything, until I used a duck plucker. With a plucker and a good pair of snips I can clean a duck in just a few minutes. However, still nice to breast some for the grill.
I'll admit I used to be the guy who breasted most everything, until I used a duck plucker. With a plucker and a good pair of snips I can clean a duck in just a few minutes. However, still nice to breast some for the grill.
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Posted on 11/29/17 at 11:00 am to eyepooted
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I’ve been waxing a lot lately. I waxed 12 specklebellies two weekends ago and they all turned out great. I was excited to have 12 perfectly cleaned birds in the freezer.
where do you purchase the wax?
Posted on 11/29/17 at 11:16 am to HogIslandDuckman
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where do you purchase the wax?
Any grocery store. It's called Gulf Wax.
I haven't waxed a bird since the 90's, so I'd assume you can get it cheaper and in bulk in the internets.
As to the OP. Those are handy for a pile of canada or snow geese. I pluck specks and most ducks, but will breast spoonies, ringnecks, or shot up birds.
This post was edited on 11/29/17 at 11:16 am
Posted on 11/29/17 at 11:49 am to Mac
Had a welder at work make me one. I use it to breast mallards for gumbo's or if a bird is shot up. I have it mounted to a cleaning station. It does work as advertised. Just watch out for broken wings. Those bones will cut your hands pretty good. But waxing is the way to go.
This post was edited on 11/29/17 at 11:52 am
Posted on 11/29/17 at 12:01 pm to Clyde Tipton
We use sawdust instead of wax.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 6:53 am to CheesyF
Cheesy, I know this is real old but if you still have that hitch I'd be interested in buying
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:15 am to Mac
The only time I’ve used one was on a trip to Lubbock, TX for a lesser Canada hunt. One of the men had one and it made quick work of the geese. You are still left with the skin on the breast and the wing meat. You still have to either pluck the feathers off the breast or skin the breasts.
I don’t have a use for the device as I do not goose hunt and probably average 4 geese a year in which they are usually specs anyways which get plucked whole.
I don’t have a use for the device as I do not goose hunt and probably average 4 geese a year in which they are usually specs anyways which get plucked whole.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:45 am to CootKilla
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We use sawdust instead of wax.
say what???
Posted on 9/27/23 at 8:57 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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If you’re shooting so many ducks that you need this apparatus to clean them before dark, shoot less ducks. There’s so much duck being wasted and thrown away when you’re breasting birds. Part of my problem with how commercialized and popular duck hunting has become is the amount of duck wasted every year from people shooting piles of ducks and not wanting to completely clean them. Pluck your damn ducks and quit wrapping the breast in bacon with peppers. You could do that with blackbirds, waste way less meat, and it’d taste the same.
Well this ought to be the stupidest fricking thing I read today.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 9:10 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
The only thing I'm not plucking is a damn goose or doves.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 9:12 am to Specklebelly
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I’ve never used one. If you have a bunch of geese to clean lay them on the ground breast up with their head between your feet. Step on the wings as close to body of the bird as possible, then grab legs and pull up nice and smoothly. It does the same thing as the hitch cleaner. It works on big ducks also:
It works like a charm. I clean 'em all like that. I usually do not skin the breast though. I pluck the feathers. I do breast and skin snows though...
Posted on 9/27/23 at 9:41 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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please god leave the skin on at least.
I am headed to Canada next week. In order to bring ducks back you have to remove the skin.
I breast my ducks and geese and save the thighs. And I make gumbo and snack sticks with them. I don't like them whole roasted or grilled with bacon.
I think we need to give each other a lot of leeway when it comes to how we process, package, prepare, wild game. Everyone's situation is different. Everyone's tastes are different. I will never say my way is the best way.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 10:09 am to No Colors
Have fun in Canada. It should be a blast. I used one in Oklahoma and it was ok, but really took a litte while to get used to. It just seemed kind of rough. I prefer breasting them, but have plucked them as well. I agree giving leeway is the way to go, no right or wrong.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 10:23 am to Mac
Found a Mike Ries YouTube vid a couple years back that showed how to make a homemade one, cheap.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 11:51 am to gdluck
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Cheesy, I know this is real old but if you still have that hitch I'd be interested in buying
Damn boy. A 6 year old thread bump you must be desperate
Posted on 9/27/23 at 12:07 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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downshift rant
But 7 birds just doesn't get that many insta likes.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 12:45 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
quote:agree 100%
DownshiftAndFloorIt
anybody hunting at our camp that tries to breast a bird does not get invited back
Posted on 9/27/23 at 1:14 pm to cgrand
They use this contraption up in Oklahoma where we hunt. It works and makes quick work of a large pile of birds.
As for the argument between breasting versus whole picking, I am on the fence. If I’m at the camp and all we are doing is drinking, watching football, and looking forward to a nap then I’m whole picking ducks outside of Hollywoods. If I’m coming home from the camp and I don’t really feel into cleaning birds, I will breast everything but teal and Woodrows.
As for the argument between breasting versus whole picking, I am on the fence. If I’m at the camp and all we are doing is drinking, watching football, and looking forward to a nap then I’m whole picking ducks outside of Hollywoods. If I’m coming home from the camp and I don’t really feel into cleaning birds, I will breast everything but teal and Woodrows.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 2:05 pm to Park duck
First you cut off the wings at the joint, then you semi pluck the ducks, don't get too out of hand, while you put some water to boil.
Take a sip of beer.
After, the water is boiling, hold the duck by the beak and soak the body in water for about 8-10 seconds until the feet curl up. Don't go too long or the skin will tear.
Take a sip of beer.
Lay the duck in a pan of sawdust and cover it with the sawdust. Remove the duck and shake it slightly to remove some of the sawdust.
Take a sip of beer.
Then you finish rubbing the feathers off of the ducks. I usually just take my thumb and rub back and forth and it removes all of the feathers.
Take a sip of beer.
The fine hairs are still on the skin so we take the duck and burn off those over an open flame.
Take a sip of beer and open another one, cause the next step is gutting them and you don't want to have to touch the top of your beer with gut hands.
I have never used wax so I can't compare the 2. We always use cypress sawdust. I wouldn't use treated even though you burn all of it off anyway.
Take a sip of beer.
After, the water is boiling, hold the duck by the beak and soak the body in water for about 8-10 seconds until the feet curl up. Don't go too long or the skin will tear.
Take a sip of beer.
Lay the duck in a pan of sawdust and cover it with the sawdust. Remove the duck and shake it slightly to remove some of the sawdust.
Take a sip of beer.
Then you finish rubbing the feathers off of the ducks. I usually just take my thumb and rub back and forth and it removes all of the feathers.
Take a sip of beer.
The fine hairs are still on the skin so we take the duck and burn off those over an open flame.
Take a sip of beer and open another one, cause the next step is gutting them and you don't want to have to touch the top of your beer with gut hands.
I have never used wax so I can't compare the 2. We always use cypress sawdust. I wouldn't use treated even though you burn all of it off anyway.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 3:11 pm to MWP
duck legs make the finest gumbo you can have
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