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sara jane goodey

Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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Location: north wales

Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 2:35 pm Post subject: Game seasons
The guide i have at home is an old one but does anyone know of new ruling or different seasons. Grouse-aug12-dec10 partridge-sept1-feb1 pheasant-oct1-feb1 snipe-aug12-jan31 woodcock-oct1-jan31 rabbit and hare have no closed season wild duck and geese-sept1-jan31

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 5:36 pm Post subject:
Sorry to simply post up a link but BASC have got a very good chart that you could print off here: https://www.basc.org.uk/content/shootingseasons

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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 05 5:40 pm Post subject:
They also seem to vary from country to country a fair bit. Looking down them I realy must try woodcock when it comes back into season in October (for me)..

sara jane goodey

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 2:34 pm Post subject: delicious woodcock
I am very lucky to have tried woodcock and cooked it in the trad manner a la mrs beeton cooked whole with guts in and roasted, then scooped out the guts pan fried them with butter, to make a kind of pate then spread this on toast with the woodcock on top. Its such a subtle flavour,but they are a pain to pluck as the skin tears so easily....god i love talking wild foods.

judith

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 2:41 pm Post subject:

Woodcock is fantastic, isn't it? I've never been brave enough to eat the trail, though.
It also makes a fantastic terrine if you roast the birds and then set them in an aspic jelly made from the roast carcases and a pig's trotter or something similar.
Sadly I lost my game supplier when we moved to Wales - a neighbour's son now keeps me in pheasant in season and the occasional hare or rabbit, but it's not quite the same as finding a brace of woodcock on your doorhandle!

Bugs

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 2:48 pm Post subject:
So, when you say guts...how far down, exactly, does that reach? Are we talking part or fully digested food???

judith

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 2:51 pm Post subject:
It's the whole intestinal tract, Bugs. Apparently the woodcock defecates as it takes off for flight, which means that there is nothing too untowards left in the guts. And no, I've never been convinced by that argument either!

sean
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 2:52 pm Post subject:
Woodcock empty their guts when they take off. That's the idea anyway.

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 3:21 pm Post subject:
What happens if you shoot them on the ground?

sean
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 3:23 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

What happens if you shoot them on the ground?

People despise you. And your dinner smells of pooh.

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 3:27 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

And your dinner smells of pooh.

Is that Winnie the?

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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 05 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: delicious woodcock

sara jane goodey wrote:

god i love talking wild foods.

After a few years of learning to forage a bit more and trying various game I do look at things a little differently. During journey home I saw plently of plump rabbits, plump pigeons, fresh nettle tops and ground elder. What people think as pests and weeds become a nice dinner plate.

joker

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 9:33 am Post subject:

sean wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

What happens if you shoot them on the ground?

People despise you. And your dinner smells of pooh.

sara jane goodey

Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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Location: north wales

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 11:01 am Post subject: Shoot a woodcock!
If you could shoot a woodcock on the ground as opposed to on the wing i'd eat my... anyway can't think what i'd have to eat but if you did it would mean you'd spent a long time hanging about marshy, shrubby ground, probably starving, and be a rather brilliant marksman, i've only ever seen them while shooting rabbits/hares after they've been startled.

Lloyd

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Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 9:21 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Treacodactyl wrote:

What happens if you shoot them on the ground?

People despise you. And your dinner smells of pooh.

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