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Iv taken shxxs that looked more appetizing...


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Don't anyone freak out!
But only careful plucking will do.

This brace were:
Frozen whole within minutes of shooting.
Dunked and shaken briefly in a cauldron of 167 degree water, with a dash of Murphy's oil soap added.

Carefully plucked, starting with the wings, working up the feather tracks, around the beaks, and finishing at the eyelids.
Then another quick swish in the water (smelled faintly like plucking a chicken) and finished with tweezers.
Rinsed in cold water, all wounds probed with tweezers to remove any shot or drawn feathers, rinsed, and patted dry.

The skin of migratory woodcock is resinous with fat. You can see it in the scald water, and it gets on your fingers as you pluck them.

When carefully done, you end up with these (a boy and a girl).



Apologies if these food prep photos are over the top.


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Fortune favors the bold, Gunut.

Woodcock evacuate when they flush. The trail carries no chalk.

I'm guessing Ortolan's might be beyond some members here.


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no problem...Iv eaten woodcock before but Id pass on that presentation...


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That reminds me of comparative vertebrate anatomy lab classes. Or maybe the contents of Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator. Just about as appetizing too.

Guts is guts. There is a reason we gut our game and leave entrails in the field to rot. Guts are natures equipment to extract nutrients from food and turn what's left into feces. Guts are filled with partially digested food, feces, and feces in process. Eating feces is called Coprophagia. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about that:

"Coprophagia or coprophagy is the consumption of feces. The word is derived from the Greek copros, "feces" and phagein, "to eat". Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or its own (autocoprophagy) – those once deposited or taken directly from the anus.[2]

In humans, coprophagia has been observed in individuals with mental illness. Some animal species eat feces as a normal behavior; other species may not normally consume feces but do so under very unusual conditions."


A true sign of mental illness is any gun owner who would vote for an Anti-Gunner like Joe Biden.

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Originally Posted By: ClapperZapper
Fortune favors the bold, Gunut.

Woodcock evacuate when they flush. The trail carries no chalk.

I'm guessing Ortolan's might be beyond some members here.



I saw your brussel sprout side dish on the other site....looks like sprouts, rutabaga, and English walnuts....Id of just had a double helping of that,looks very tasty....


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I don't think coprophagy is an accurate description of the French method of roasting woodcock.


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Hi all, my boys and I went out for a bit today, but we didn't see a lot of birds, kind of odd for where we went. Oh well, I suppose tomorrow they'll be all over the place!

Anyway, I managed 2, I used my 16b Charles Boswell



Will got 1 with his 16ga Sauer Royal



Will, Raina & Jim. Jim didn't score, but he used his 16ga AyA Matador



We'll see what tomorrow brings!

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No pictures here, but I managed just one bird today on some of the worst shooting of all time... Dog work was good though smile

Nice photos, Greg. Keep'em comin'


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Hi all, Will and I went out today around the house, but didn't see a lot of birds, it was a beautiful day, sun, in the 30's and low winds. Just no birds. I was able to shoot a limit, but lost one. Raina wasn't able to find him. Oh well. We did bust into some Huns and we each got one. Not a bad day overall!

Will with his Hun and his 16ga Sauer



I used my 12b F.A. Anderson



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