Geese!

[Woodycreek]

Finally had a chance to go goose hunting this season and killed a few birds :grin:

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[JD338]

Woodycreek

Good job on the geese!

JD338

 

[Woodycreek]

Thanks Jim. Two of my buds and me got out on the James river to work the birds last Wed. No bands but those big ones sure did cook up real good on the grill :grin:

 

[russ808]

Woodycreek, those are some big birds. Never had geese, what do they taste like? (chicken?)

 

[GooseHunter Jr]

Way to work em over!!!

 

[DrMike]

Great looking honkers. Must have been a great day on the water. Congratulations.

 

[Woodycreek]

russ808, i think goose has a roast beef maybe even steak taste depending on how you grill it. Breast out the bird, marinade in Italian dressing or Sweet Baby Rays Rib sauce, wrap breast in bacon, and cook till med rare-medium and enjoy. Two of those birds in the pic were huge!

GooseHunter Jr, Yes we did! Have you had any luck with the birds ?

DrMike, We had a great time out on the river. Just wish i would have taken a pic of the makeshift blind. Out on a beach with no cover, we used an old pinic table and alot of drift wood :lol:

 

[DrMike]

They look delicious. I never got into goose hunting, and though there are hunters here in the Peace Region, it is not nearly as big a sport as on the prairies of Canada. However, the goose I have eaten provided fine fare. Those do appear to be large honkers.

 

[TScottW99]

goose and delicious in the same sentence??? :shock: :lol: The ones on the New River in VA taste well, um, lets just say we call them sky carp :lol:

 

[FOTIS]

Never done any waterfowling but looks like fun. Good work!

 

[Woodycreek]

DrMike, If you ever get a chance to go goose hunting go! I could almost quit deer hunting to hunt geese if i could find enough birds all season.

TScottW99, Some of my hunting buds would drive the three hours to take any of your dead "sky carp" off your hands. If cooked the right way its great on the grill or jerky my buddy just made.

 

[Woodycreek]

POP, you and DrMike have a standing invite to go hunt some birds if you are ever in Va during goose season.

 

[DrMike]

Sky Carp??? That is almost too funny. I always treated carp as trash fish as a boy in Kansas, until I ate some prepared by an Indian woman living next door. It was excellent. She had pressure cooked it and made patties. It tasted like canned salmon. So, if those sky carp can be made to taste like that, I would suppose that is fine.

While in Louisiana leading an evangelistic service on one occasion, I was treated to a Cajun dinner of pork chops stuffed with gar. It was some of the finest eating imaginable.

Pastoring a Chinese congregation in Vancouver, I dined on things that are almost unbelievable. I have come to realise that anything can be made to taste good, if the cook knows what he/she is doing.

Woodycreek, I would really enjoy doing some goose hunting sometime. If I ever make it back to Virginia, I'll take you up on that. I didn't have much time for such when I was at Quantico, and my last trip was to watch a daughter graduate from Liberty University.

Sky Carp!?! That is still funny to me.

 

[Woodycreek]

The "Sky Carp" was a good one.

 

[JDMAG]

Canadians have always been good in my book! alot of folks around here call the snows,white fronts,blues, and speckle bellies, "sky carp"(or sky crap) But if you grill or cook them right they are all good to me. I like any of them smoked. Or stir fried with bell peppers, tomato and onion and made into fajitas.

 

[DrMike]

I'm telling you, smoked sounds good to me. I've had goose stir fried with fixin's that emulated fajitas, and I thought it was quite good.

 

[Woodycreek]

You guys gotta stop before i go out and fire the grill up. Stir fried goose sounds good even though its almost 10.

 

[JDMAG]

You can stir fry it IN the house.(assuming you still have power,and since you are on the computer I guess you do) Please tell me its warmer than 10 degrees in your house!

 

[Woodycreek]

It in the low 40s here after being in the 20s. Thats why the grill has been calling me :lol: I have had alot of home runs with the grill and goose. Alot of misses with baked and fried!

 

[DrMike]

Woodycreek,

When we say low 40s, we mean -40 Celsius. Somehow, low 40s as you describe it sounds downright balmy. I would for certain be out grilling if our temp was anywhere near that. Actually, tomorrow is supposed to get up to around 4 degrees and I would be ready to grill at that temperature. Now you've gone and got me thinking of geese, and all I have is some bison, some elk and some venison.