Heading out tomorrow morning for a weekend snow goose hunt in SEMO. Weather has been really screwy this past few weeks and I don't know what we'll see/shoot down there. I've been going down there the last weekend of Feb. for quite a few years now, as it seems to be the best time to "TIME" the migration. This year, I truly don't know. I'll post a report and hopefully some dog retrieving pictures and some "carnage" pictures when I get home. Later.
How do you cook your goose? Seriously though, how do you prepare it? I have not hunted geese, Canadian, in about 10 yrs, but last time I did, I just de breasted them, and made goose jerky with the breast meat. Not a lot left on a goose past that. I tried roasting a whole goose a couple times. It never worked out so well, which is why I went the jerky route.
With Canada's I usually breastfeeding them out and cook the beast like you would a small roast. Just don't overcook it. Unfortunately I lost my only goose hunting spot when they sold the place and the new owners had old race horses that they were worried gunshots would spook.
Jet, I think you've been struck by the dreaded autocorrect. Sorry, I'd laugh if that happened to me too.
In his defense, he does have 3 lil ones, no doubt that word is in his phone... still hilarious though It doesn't explain why "rectum" is in greenjohns phone though....
Oh definitely. You should see the jibberish my mom types from her phone. She outdumbed google. I can't wait until she gets a new phone, that she hasn't corrupted yet.
The flocks of snows are getting bigger and bigger round here. I saw a field holding maybe 600-700 yesterday. I prefer my geese grass fed . Sorry jet
We shoot a lot of canadas here in s/e mi. I have a lab and enclosed trailer full of gear. Generally we make smoked goose jerky. Let me rephrase that... I make the jerky while the rest of the guys collect ziplock bags full of goodness. I give most of It away. A couple of farmers look forward to it every year and love my recipe/smoke. The next best recipe we have is cream cheese and jalapeno stuffed breast. Stick your knife in one end of the goose breast. then slice the center of the breast making a pocket to stuff the peppers and creamcheese in and use toothpics to sew closed the small slice where you inserted the knife. Bake for an hour and there you go. goose goodness. just don't bake to long. Another recipe I like is to use the goose thighs. I fill a large crockpot with goose thighs. Cover with water and season. Chicken stock etc. Then slow cook till the meat will pull off the bone. Drain, pull all bones from meat and make gravey. Add gravy and meat together seasoned to taste. Serve this over rice or egg noodles. yum. Very tasty. Best of luck on your hunt. Can't wait to see pics.
Dear husband wants me to add: Best thing to do with a snow goose is jerky it. Although we gave up geese long ago. If you can, hunt rib eye in the sky.
Wow, lots of jerkiers of goose breast. When I started making goose breast jerky, it was because I made jerky out of deer, beef, whatever, and I hate plucking the feathers for not much more meat beyond the breasts. When I started making goose jerky, I came up with the idea on a whim. Since others are doing it too, is obviously a good idea.
Twas real cold in SEMO this weekend. My group did manage to kill 18 snows on Saturday though. It was 18* and snowing Sat. morning, so it was difficult to set out a large decoy spread on the frozen ground. Still we had large numbers of birds "check us out" but very few wanting to commit. This is typical of snow geese in the early phases of the migration. Normally, for this time of year, we're getting into the tail end of the migration with mostly young/juvenial snow geese and Ross's geese making up the bulk of what we shoot. But with the delayed thaw this year, we were running into mostly mature/old/seasoned birds that've been hunted before. We had numerous flocks over us, but not wanting to commit. Sunday was warmer, but was spitting rain in the morning. Still we had geese work, but not commit and we got skunked on Sunday. I still love doing it. That's why it's called hunting and not shooting. If it was just shooting everyone would do it. I have cooked both Canada geese and Snow geese for folks in the past, and they couldn't tell it from beef, or pork or whatever. I truly don't know how some of y'all prepare your goose; but it cannot be right that you resort to making nothing but jerky or grinding it all. I've nothing against jerky either, I'm just saying. By "preparing", I'm not only talking about the cooking phase of it. It also includes the cleaning, possible aging, and seasoning of the flesh. I've no pix from this hunt due to the weather...............sorry.
Glad you got a few, a snow goose hunt is on my bucket list. We don't really have any whee I hunt in Ohio. We see a few every year mixed in with Canadian geese but I've never shot one. I would like to go to Canada one day and try.
I go down at least once every year to SEMO. If you could swing it, lemme know for next year. I've got some Buds that come over from the Lexington, KY area..................If you drove to meet them, you could pool with them over to SEMO.
