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05-05-2011, 11:56 AM
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Tips for removing shot from birds
Does anyone have any tips for making sure you get all the shot out of a bird?
I'm talking about migratory birds, so the shot is all steel. Does anyone use magnets or metal detectors or anything?
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05-05-2011, 12:17 PM
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chew slowly at first, then let them fall to your plate with a little clink.
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05-05-2011, 01:24 PM
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Butterfly the breast meat and place between two sheets of saran wrap. Tenderize with a meat mallet, and lift by the plastic up to a light. You can see light through the meat, if it is thin enough. It doesn't need to be paper thin, just thin enough to see light passing through.
Works for me, and no knife needed when it comes to chow time!
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05-05-2011, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by winged1
chew slowly at first, then let them fall to your plate with a little clink.
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Yup, that's what I do, an it works pretty good.
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05-06-2011, 08:09 AM
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shoot them in the head, it'll be a non-issue.
I've never really had a problem with shot. Get the occasional one in a sausage or breast, but nothing regular.
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05-06-2011, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by winged1
chew slowly at first, then let them fall to your plate with a little clink.
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x2 When we were kids we thought it was cool! Kinda like a prize. See who got the most.
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05-06-2011, 06:38 PM
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May I ask, in a most polite manner, why you asked this question?
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05-07-2011, 09:53 PM
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shot in the meat
When we shot with the lead there seemed more in the meat than when switching to the steel . I find more pass thru with the steel with the harder and faster steel than the lead. And yes , we do the same ...... listen for the clink !
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05-08-2011, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Ryan R
Does anyone have any tips for making sure you get all the shot out of a bird?
I'm talking about migratory birds, so the shot is all steel. Does anyone use magnets or metal detectors or anything?
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I go over my Birds with a Massive Magnet before I throw them in the oven!!!
It works Great!
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05-10-2011, 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by greylynx
May I ask, in a most polite manner, why you asked this question?
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My wife chipped a tooth so unless I can guarantee that there's no shot, then I have to cook it and eat it myself.
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05-10-2011, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by whitetail Junkie
I go over my Birds with a Massive Magnet before I throw them in the oven!!!
It works Great!
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What size magnet, and does the meat just lift up to the magnet?
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05-10-2011, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Ryan R
What size magnet, and does the meat just lift up to the magnet?
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i think he was being facetious
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05-10-2011, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by fish_e_o
i think he was being facetious
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Might work though.
Just get one of those lifting magnets they use in the scrap yard and hold the ducks underneath, switch it on and the duck would zip up and stick to it.
Then you'd just have to pull until the duck tears free and the pellets stick.
Maybe? No?
Aw well, worth a shot.
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05-10-2011, 01:35 PM
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05-10-2011, 02:43 PM
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If you breast them out you will see any holes that go into the breast, it will be all bruised and bloody. I usually cut through the hole to an outside edge and this allows me to get any blood or feathers out of the shot tract and the pellets out as well. If you are just plucking them then im not sure how you would do it.
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05-10-2011, 04:08 PM
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What size magnet, and does the meat just lift up to the magnet?
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There's no Magnet,I was just Fooling.... 
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05-10-2011, 04:14 PM
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Ordered one a few years ago from Cabelas, next to useless ended up sending it back. Spent a lot of time tuning it and was lucky to have it work through more than a piece of paper.
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05-10-2011, 04:31 PM
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haha good to know..lol
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05-10-2011, 05:59 PM
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Don't shoot from too close. :-)
(edit: Oops sorry that would be prevention, not removal)
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05-11-2011, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted by whitetail Junkie
There's no Magnet,I was just Fooling.... |
No problem, I liked the mental picture of all the ducks stuck to a junkyard magnet.
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05-11-2011, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by MathewsArcher
Ordered one a few years ago from Cabelas, next to useless ended up sending it back. Spent a lot of time tuning it and was lucky to have it work through more than a piece of paper.
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Thanks guys, this is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind.
Good to know that it's not worth the trouble, though.
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05-11-2011, 01:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by winged1
chew slowly at first, then let them fall to your plate with a little clink.
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Thats funny right there!
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05-11-2011, 03:02 PM
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Metal detector? 
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