Been seeing lots of spruce hens this year over ruffs and was wondering what you guys do if anything to get rid of the gamey taste of the spruce and sharptails
Been seeing lots of spruce hens this year over ruffs and was wondering what you guys do if anything to get rid of the gamey taste of the spruce and sharptails
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Don't shoot them
I have a lot of spruce out my way, try shake and bake works great! Kids love them and my boy is turning out to be a pretty good head hunter with the 410
Never Mind The Bullshit !!!!!
I prefer them just as mother nature intended them. I like them better then ruff.
Son of a Birch,, Life time BC resident hunter.
Try slowing cooking with a mixture of sherry and plum sauce...works well for pretty much all gamebirds!!!
I have heard so many people commenting about the gamey taste of spruce grouse, but over the last 40 years I have eaten more than my fair share of them and find them quite palatable. Granted, very late in the season they get a bit of a sprucey taste. If you don't think they don't taste good, spice them up in something like a catcatorie. You could also try soaking them in milk for a few hours prior to cooking. This tends to take away the gamey tastse.
If none of that doesn't work, don't shoot them.
Live to hunt, hunt to live!!!!!
i hunt because i like the gamey taste of wild critters
a bad day hunting is awwwwwwww who cares as long as your hunting.
Use lots of ketchup
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
I'm a vegetarian. I eat things that eat vegetables..........
Gamey taste?......its called Flavour!
No, serious, Spruce grouse are gamey???? Not the ones i've tried.
Sorry,forgot to mention......soak in salted water over night. I do this with Snowshoe hare. Or the old classic, buttermilk.
We soak them in milk. Works great.
doesnt matter what kind of bullet it is, as long as it weighs 180 grains its DEADLY, even on ass shots....Todbartell-2009