Re: Some **** shot my pheasants
 

Plucking isn't that easy I had a go with it, really messy. The guts went in a bucket but really stunk. I didn't like it all. I think I was having a feminine day.


EDIT: SQUIRREL???

I see. That Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall has a lot to answer for then.

Someone told me the skin (rabbit) and feathers (not on rabbits obviously) of roadkill are removed easily when the animal is still warm.

I'm not that keen on eating meat off the bone anyway as I've choked a couple of times (wolf my grub) but something has never felt right only eating animals others have plucked and prepared.

Is that odd or does anyone else think the same?

(sorry to derail).

Re: Some **** shot my pheasants
 

When a kid my dad used to go out and shoot a dinner bunny. Part of the mealtime fun was to see who got the most lead shot on their plate - tinker tailor soldier sailor rich man poor man begger-man theif.
No swallowing allowed to end on rich man.

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If they weren't being shot they wouldn't be there in the first place.

It's not like they're native to our lands.

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I love pheasant, preping it is easy. Although the look on my kids face first time they saw me and my dad doing it was a picture. The same when my son who loved his animals of farthing wood saw my dad dispatch a rabbit and he ran over kicked my dad and went to stroke the ex rabbit. We having to explain granddad grows his vegetables to eat and it was not fair that the rabbit was eating them. So we had to eat the rabbit etc.

Well back to Ed post. My old fellers place was near Westminster's Abbystead estate. As a result we seemed to always have plenty of pheasant about and some would be a repeat visitor as a result of putting feed out for the hens/geese. Greedy feckers.

Well I have to say that the freezer was well stocked with game. However, it has over the years cost me a small fortune when my brittle teeth find a lump of shot.

But last week I had pheasant stuffed with haggis, wrapped in bacon served with a whisky sauce.... Delicious

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Wild food can be lush. In my time I have had rabbits, hares, wood pigeons and what ever other animals my sadistic family could force out of the woods! This caused me to go vegi for many years because it horrified me and having hands dripping with blood is hardly a time to chase your kids around the table! Anyway, enough of my troubled past, rather than plucking, a poacher friend of mine told me that cleanest and easiest way to deal with pheasant is to skin the animal. The feathers come off easily when attached to the skin apparently. I cannot confirm this though due to my vegi state at the time!

Being Vegi is great, however when combined with my food allergies and picky palate, it left me malnourished and ill, so I am now a picky meat eater. I refuse to eat anything gross!

As for Ed's birds, sadly they are used as Game so if the land owner allows shooting, they are pretty much doomed! Doomed I tell you... ;-)
Sorry Ed, sending hugs your way chap :smt056

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I prefer hunting with the .177 to a shotgun these days, used to go out with my mate who had FAC and a good number of shotguns, pffffft... TING :smt043

And if you catch one at close range with the airgun there's still something left for the pot!

Exactly! My .22 BSA Lightning is the nuts!


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I've gone soft in my old age and bought a PCP.

Helpfully doing scuba diving means I usuallv have 232 bar air kicking about which means both hobbies cost next to nothing! Er... Honest...

:'(, animals get a bad bargain in life.