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I just learned that puffin are hunted in Iceland, both with nets and also conventional shotgunning. Has anyone here tried it?
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Why would anyone hunt a Puffin?
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I'd think they'd taste like schit. Kinda on the same level as mergansers. I guess if you're hungry enough though...
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In Iceland November of '17 I looked into bird hunting and puffin was very legal and doable. Many restaurants had it on the menu and many tourist traps sold mounted puffins. At $50 a plate I was not about to try it. I will see if I can figure out how to get photos off my phone to post.
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Oh, they seem very proud of their willingness to eat ANYTHING!
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Oh, they seem very proud of their willingness to eat ANYTHING! Well I'll eat anything, but I don't have to, so I don't!
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I saw this and thought about kiviak. https://vimeo.com/96173473Ronnie
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If you can eat a merganser you shouldn't have any problem stomaching a puffin....up here in Michigan there so many cormorants there needs to be a hunting season they taste like a puffin....
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I'd think they'd taste like schit. Kinda on the same level as mergansers. I guess if you're hungry enough though...
I would bet puffins make mergansers taste like veal.
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coyotewacker,
Do not like cormorants? That reminds me of and old East Texas hunting buddy who called them "water turkeys" and killed every one of them that he saw. Pistol, Rifle or shotgun - he would blast away in his attempt to rid Texas of the ugly things.
He passed on some years ago and I do not know who took up the torch to rid the state of them.
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I'd think they'd taste like schit. Kinda on the same level as mergansers. I guess if you're hungry enough though...
I would bet puffins make mergansers taste like veal. They used to hunt and eat loons in Chesapeake Bay, now THAT I would not want to try either,
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No experience with puffin, but on a Snake River outing many years back we scored a very mixed duck bag. Mallard, pintail, gadwall, green wing teal, ring neck, golden eye, and a background coot that fell from the sky. We keep everything sorted and IDed during dressing, cooking, and serving, and the only universal rejection among 6 diners was the green wing teal. Even the coot got a passing grade, but I must admit we each received the smallest of shares on that one. I think one could score more volume from a robin.
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Two words: "Puffin McNuggets"
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Two words: "Puffin McNuggets" Easily confused with Fish McSandwiches?
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No experience with puffin, but on a Snake River outing many years back we scored a very mixed duck bag. Mallard, pintail, gadwall, green wing teal, ring neck, golden eye, and a background coot that fell from the sky. We keep everything sorted and IDed during dressing, cooking, and serving, and the only universal rejection among 6 diners was the green wing teal. Even the coot got a passing grade, but I must admit we each received the smallest of shares on that one. I think one could score more volume from a robin. Location, location, location... Kodiak seaducks are mostly a bit fishy and only edible if you really insist on following the letter of the law... But none of them are as bad as Kodiak mallards! The mallards eat nothing but salmon eggs for most of the season and are flat-out worse than any merganser, cormorant, or seaduck!!!
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Oh, they seem very proud of their willingness to eat ANYTHING! I bet they'd change their adventurous ways of eating anything if Over-the Hillary was available. I bet that is really fishy tasting.
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I have hunted them several times and they are great eating both cooked and smoked. We have been eating these burds for centuries
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I have a growing desire to visit your country, maybe a retirement gift to myself next year or two. Do you know of a camper rental company that would be desirable?
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