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Old 04-14-2019, 03:08 PM
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Default Cranes!!

While everyone was busy arguing about bear baiting sites I went out for some snow geese. Little did I know that we would find ourselves smack dab in the middle of a huge crane migration, what a great thing to see so many huge birds.
I’m not much of a spring time hunter, for obvious reasons so I haven’t seen them like that....very cool.
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Old 04-14-2019, 03:57 PM
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I just saw the first cranes of the year on my way home from the Consort gun show.
I kind of wish they stuck around, instead of just pass through. I enjoy watching them.
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Old 04-15-2019, 06:44 PM
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I just saw the first cranes of the year on my way home from the Consort gun show.
I kind of wish they stuck around, instead of just pass through. I enjoy watching them.
I have resident Sandhills nest here every summer,no need for a rooster to wake up early they make a helluva racket at dawn every day,lol
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Old 04-16-2019, 09:07 AM
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They show up here in WA every year in the fall.

Would love to eat one to see if they live up to the hype!
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Old 04-16-2019, 11:06 PM
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They show up here in WA every year in the fall.

Would love to eat one to see if they live up to the hype!
Ribeye of the sky 😋
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Old 04-26-2019, 12:00 PM
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i have seen 3 pairs nesting down by a little lake north east of Caroline
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Old 04-26-2019, 12:19 PM
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Ribeye of the sky 😋
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Old 04-26-2019, 12:30 PM
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Found this pair hanging with a whitetail the other night.

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Old 04-26-2019, 12:36 PM
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They shattered the silence in the Castle last weekend and there were only four pair. You could hear them for miles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z08hSkfXbdw
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Old 04-26-2019, 01:10 PM
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Ribeye of the sky 😋
Only if you shoot the young ones with feathers on their head still and the brownish colour. The old ancient grey coloured ones with the bald heads you may as well throw a rock and the big old Crane breast in a slow cooker together. Once they have cooked for 8 hours throw out the Crane breast meat and eat the rock it will be more tender. However the old ones do make some nice jerky. When we hunt them we usually target the young ones like I said they will be light brown colour with feathers on the head still.
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Old 04-27-2019, 01:48 AM
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They show up here in WA every year in the fall.

Would love to eat one to see if they live up to the hype!



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Ribeye of the sky ��
to me personally I think they have the same taste as the under side of a frog
but a lot of others really like them
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Old 04-27-2019, 11:43 AM
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Watched a hundred thousand fly over north of Wanham a few years ago. Hundreds overhead at a time, nearly all the time, for days I had no idea. Ribeye of the sky? People tell me they are absolutely terrible table fare.
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Old 04-27-2019, 02:02 PM
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Watched a large bunch of them in Sask a few yrs back, maybe 1500, while hunting spring snows. We had them almost on our blinds they came in so nice, 6 ft above us. Watched them jink down from maybe 3-500ft right in to us. Then watched some hitting thermals and making like eagles, climbing to maybe
to 3-5000ft with the sun highlighting them against the dark clouds and them hitting open sunny spots up between the clouds behind them. Had to use binos to see them, but that impressed me. They can certainly fly with grace and agility when they want to.
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Old 05-05-2019, 08:27 AM
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The rib eye of the sky part is in looks only. The breast fillet looks like a rib eye steak. Till you cook and eat it, that's were the two are way different.
What do you expect when it eats fish, frogs, grass hoppers, and anything else that come within reach.
We used to shoot behind them and make them **** all over the other duck hunter group. But it goes both ways!!
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