[rambored]

still have not seen any fly in the evening.

 

[bagofdonuts]

There here. Killed a limit yesterday in about 30 minutes of hunting. Spent the rest of the evening watching the dog point them.

 

[WillyB71]

Spent the weekend in Fayetteville & Bentonville with the GF. Closest I came to bird hunting was admiring a Brittney Spaniel on a leash in Compton Park.

 

[bagofdonuts]

Limit of ouachita mountain woodcock. Seems they're here some years and some years not in the mountains.

 

[arkrem870]

Dang right!

 

[JohnnieWalker]

Limit of ouachita mountain woodcock. Seems they're here some years and some years not in the mountains.
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Pretty picture. Congrats

 

[WillyB71]

Great photo!!! How you plan to cook them?

 

[bagofdonuts]

My favorite two ways to cook.
Debone the breast, pound them flat (be gentle), salt & pepper, then coat in flour and lightly fry them. You want them rare. If overcooked they taste like liver and get tough, if rare they're delicious. The legs are really good quickly fried as well. Really good with hot pepper jelly sauce for dipping(just equal parts brown mustard, butter and hot pepper jelly).

Also good braised with brown butter sauce and quickly finished in the oven. Again, you want them rare. After braised for a few minutes on stove top, I finish them in the oven by putting them on a piece of bread, pour the remaining browned butter over them, when the bread is toasted they're done.

 

[ranger362]

Limit of ouachita mountain woodcock. Seems they're here some years and some years not in the mountains.
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Good looking dog.

 

[Steve Adams]

Saw several on my lease this past weekend

 

[Buck-Ridge]

I used to kill them when I hunted in the bottoms here for rabbits. I hunt in the hills now and haven't seen one in years. I always through them in the pot with squirrels or rabbits cooked in a gravy.

 

[pirogue]

Still haven’t seen any around my place. Too dry. It’s not rocket science. Dry hard ground is not attractive to a bird who likes to probe soft moist ground, for its food.

 

[quackandmild]

We ran across several at the wrr and I’ve seen a couple here by the house. They are neat birds.

 

[wc23_01]

Should have had a limit, but managed to kill one in the Ouachita Mountains. View attachment 338939