Thread: Over duck shooting

[QUOTE=Nathan F;1683009]This year for the first time I just couldn’t be assed. I’m sick of F&G and their attitude towards farmers. I’ve brought a duck licence for the last 25 odd years. No more donation from me. If it wasn’t for my boy I would have gone deer stalking. I’m lucky I have a pond not 100 m from my house. We sat on that and shot 32. Boy was happy.


That is disappointing that you feel like that Nathan. We need farmers involved in our waterfowl hunting, as the ducks need to breed and feed on farmers land. I think the F&G v Fed F over "Dirty Dairying" was from a few over zealous individuals high up in F&G. I have an inkling that some farmers got themselves voted onto F&G and sorted a few things out. I myself put in a submission a year or so ago, and made it clear that they need to work with farmers - not against them. I hope you change your mind about buying a license in future.

I am happy to pay for my license, and know that a portion of it goes to the Gamebird Trust for habitat retention/establishment. I shoot on a F&G balloted wetland, and we have to pay an additional $35 each on top of our license, supposedly for weed spraying etc. That bit sucks.

We only have a 6 bird limit here in Eastern, and that is plenty for me. Our waterfowl season has been extended to 6 weeks (from 4), and we have some great pheasant hunting. My son and I have spent this last week duck and pheasant hunting every day. We have done this first week every year since he could hold a shotgun. Fantastic fun.

Originally Posted by Ross Nolan

Slice the breast into schnitzels, then soak in port and coriander for half an hour before a very quick fry in butter.
Serve on mashed potatoes with the pan juice poured over, and have creamed leeks alongside - leeks and duck are outstanding together.

How dare you use the C word on this forum.

Its not a "licence", like it was, where good things were done with it...........
now its a "tax" so you can keep your shit if you happen to bump into a F&G ranger.

Originally Posted by mikee

Its not a "licence", like it was, where good things were done with it...........
now its a "tax" so you can keep your shit if you happen to bump into a F&G ranger.

Only reason I buy a licence

I buy one to add to the collection of hats. Gunbags.head torchs and knives

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

@Old_School please try this. Cook a corned beef in your crock pot,bit of golden syrup and water enough to cover it....when you take it out to carve,pop your frozen duck in and leave it turned off overnight,lid back on. In morning as head out door to work,flick switch on...by time you come home for dinner it will be falling off the bones,two serving spoons will usually get it out in one piece.

I second this, done it just as Micky told me and you end up eating the whole bird!

Originally Posted by Rushy

How dare you use the C word on this forum.
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Ordinarily I'd agree - coriander is awful, and i can't/won't eat it on or in anything.
With port it does something magic to the duck, and it's worth a crack......Nigel?

Whilst browsing for the "Its worth a crack Nigel" cheese advert, I came across this one. Is it yours???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqabqH0TZr0

Nolan cheese.
No fucks given, no prisoners, no problems.

I got two ducks so far,thats $58 a duck so fuck em!

Originally Posted by XR500

Whilst browsing for the "Its worth a crack Nigel" cheese advert, I came across this one. Is it yours???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqabqH0TZr0

Classic.

Cold duck…on fresh white bread. Sammies…..yum.

Originally Posted by Dundee

I got two ducks so far,thats $58 a duck so fuck em!

like yuou Dundee i got two but only shot one .the second was lying against a post in the car park where ishoot .a lovely spoonie drake?????someone mistook it for a teal and abandoned it,but not yours sincerely . yes F&G charge like the proverbial wounded bull ,but i see theyre trying to recruit more fishermen with these new" family license" changes so one always hopes the duckshooters might get a benevolent eye cast across em.

Mallard is beautiful to eat, and not hard to do at all. We basically eat all of it as either duck nuggets already described in this thread or the breast thinly sliced, crumbed, and cooked as snitzel. Bloody beautiful. The kids love it.

Most of the others, parrie, swan etc I do save for sausages or something.

All of my shooting is on public land, I'm not lucky enough to have any private duck shooting spots. Although one of them is a public spot through private access. I never really understood the complaints over buying a license. My ammunition amongst other things costs me a lot more then the license. I can get a bit over it by the end of the season when I'm putting in a lot of effort to generally shoot bugger all on the public land but I am always keen as hell come the next year and ready to go again. Especially now my young ones are coming of age to really participate.

I spend more time watching the weather and picking my days to go chase them too. Without access to easy ponds holding birds, hunting them in that regard is the best way for me to find success. Shooting ducks on a day when the hunt plan all comes together is extremely satisfying for me.

well said stag stalker