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[DodgeRover]

don't you have to let game such as pheasant hang for a week or two before eating anyway?

Only if you have something to eat that night already...

[Lacquer Peel]

It sort of demonstrated that supercharging a dizzler wasn't any better than turbocharging.....

Little to no lag, in theory.

[loserone]

I had pheasant for the first time last week, because it fits neatly with my wife's New year's resolution to be mostly* vegan. (For environmental reasons, and someone bought us it so it needed not be wasted)

 

It was delicious and the only disappointment was that the carcass had to be binned once stripped because feeding birds to our chickens† doesn't seem sensible.

 

* See next footnote

 

† our chickens and their eggs don't count, we grow or would otherwise waste nearly everything they eat

[dollywobbler]

Mrs DW does love a roadkill pheasant. One went under the car in front of me the other day, but the hardy bugger just flew off.

[puddlethumper]

I'm sure I read or saw something about, I think, a small new car 

with a small supercharger and a turbo. 

Supercharger works till the turbo kicks in. The engine was 1000cc

or possibly less. Maybe I dreamt it.

[3VOM]

I'm sure I read or saw something about, I think, a small new car 

with a small supercharger and a turbo. 

Supercharger works till the turbo kicks in. The engine was 1000cc

or possibly less. Maybe I dreamt it.

March (=Micra) Super Turbo did that.

[vulgalour]

Rover had a flat battery today.  Last time I put it down to lack of use - 30 miles in 2 month - so I was a bit concerned that a very recent long drive about wasn't enough to charge it up.  Connected jump leads to the Princess again and... why are the headlights on?

 

Well.  That would explain the flat battery then.

[richardmorris]

I had pheasant for the first time last week, because it fits neatly with my wife's New year's resolution to be mostly* vegan. (For environmental reasons, and someone bought us it so it needed not be wasted)

It was delicious and the only disappointment was that the carcass had to be binned once stripped because feeding birds to our chickens† doesn't seem sensible.

* See next footnote

† our chickens and their eggs don't count, we grow or would otherwise waste nearly everything they eat

I made stock with the carcass and then did a risotto with it, waste not want not

[dollywobbler]

March (=Micra) Super Turbo did that.

 

HONK

https://youtu.be/7iEfh3M_fwg?t=9

 

Very silly.

[Talbot]

A close family friend gets phesants from a shoot that happens locally to us. Over the phesant shooting season there are *thousands* of phesants shot, and they are all available.

 

They get fed to dogs, stripped for meat, frozen and kepts for a bit, etc.etc. There are always more than we can deal with.

 

If anyone localish wants any (next year now) then they are welcome to some birds. Rather embarrasingly we had to bin a depressing number this year as they weren't stored properly and went manky.

 

Got a fair few frozen ones too.. could bring to shitefest for an impromptu barbecue.

[dollywobbler]

Ugh. Don't get me started on pheasant shooting. How clever people must feel pitting themselves against one of the stupidest animals ever to exist armed only with a powerful gun.

[richardmorris]

On the subject of wild birds, this has been circling overhead for a while. Red kite I think, or possibly a buzzard. Edit, it’s big, I mean really big in a -that won’t fit in the oven big

[3VOM]

Red Kite I think. Buzzards aren't that big.

[New POD]

My dad used to bring pheasants home that " the car in front ran over " .

.

 

Of course it did father. Liar liar pants are on fire.

 

We live about 2 miles from Great Altcar, where they used to do the hare coursing.

They've reinvented themselves as "pheasant shooting"

 

This means that there are 100s escaped into the wild.

 

I was behind a car that emergency braked for one yesterday. Luckily I'm giving more distance to the car in front than ever, because getting older and wiser.

[BorniteIdentity]

A chum of mine had a bunch of fellas on his land yesterday and decided against telling them to FRO and instead made quiet enquiries with fellow farm friends.

 

Apparently there’s a stag around that some geezer has put a price on the head of. So there are now up to 20 blokes driving all over Bedfordshire trying to hunt it.

 

I can’t really judge I guess - but it does seem terribly brutal and backward to me.

[Guest Hooli]

On the subject of wild birds, this has been circling overhead for a while. Red kite I think, or possibly a buzzard. Edit, it’s big, I mean really big in a -that won’t fit in the oven big

 

If it's making a really lonley screaming cry as it circles about then it's a Red Kite. It's amazing how lonely their call sounds!

 

We used to have them over the house where I used to live, lovely things to watch.

[richardmorris]

If it's making a really lonley screaming cry as it circles about then it's a Red Kite. It's amazing how lonely their call sounds!

 

We used to have them over the house where I used to live, lovely things to watch.

Yes, definitely shrieking. As was I when I nearly fell out of the window taking the photo.

[Skizzer]

It’s a red kite, you can tell by the forked tail.

 

Can I suggest we just don’t go there with a debate about the merits or otherwise of bloodsports, at least not on the main forum.

[Guest Hooli]

 

Can I suggest we just don’t go there with a debate about the merits or otherwise of bloodsports, at least not on the main forum.

 

Aye, knowing where such threads have gone before that's a good call.

[Hertz]

A chum of mine had a bunch of fellas on his land yesterday and decided against telling them to FRO and instead made quiet enquiries with fellow farm friends.

 

Apparently there’s a stag around that some geezer has put a price on the head of. So there are now up to 20 blokes driving all over Bedfordshire trying to hunt it.

 

I can’t really judge I guess - but it does seem terribly brutal and backward to me.

 

What colour is he after? I'm sure we can help him find a good one...

 

[Cheggers]

On the subject of wild birds, this has been circling overhead for a while. Red kite I think, or possibly a buzzard. Edit, it’s big, I mean really big in a -that won’t fit in the oven big

I'd say Red Kite. We used to see loads when I lived in Wokingham as they were reintroduced just South of Henley 20-odd years ago and have been breeding like rabbits ever since.

 

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[DodgeRover]

A chum of mine had a bunch of fellas on his land yesterday and decided against telling them to FRO and instead made quiet enquiries with fellow farm friends.

 

FS ring the police on 999 they like* an armed trespass, as in they'll go postal with the twats.

From experience of being mistaken for someone lamping on the golf course rather than dog walking at night I can say that a full on armed response unit taking them down will create a lasting impression.

 

Nothing against shooting, but going onto someone else's property to do it is absolutely out of order, they don't deserve any sympathy.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

On the subject of wild birds, this has been circling overhead for a while. Red kite I think, or possibly a buzzard. Edit, it’s big, I mean really big in a -that won’t fit in the oven big

 

 

That's a red kite.  The tail is the giveaway.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Ugh. Don't get me started on pheasant shooting. How clever people must feel pitting themselves against one of the stupidest animals ever to exist armed only with a powerful gun.

 

Pheasants are specifically bred to be so stupid that the upper classes - after multiple generations of inbreeding - stand at least some chance of outwitting them.

[richardmorris]

It’s a red kite, you can tell by the forked tail.

Can I suggest we just don’t go there with a debate about the merits or otherwise of bloodsports, at least not on the main forum.

I wasn’t suggesting shooting it

[anonymous user]

On the subject of wild birds, this has been circling overhead for a while. Red kite I think, or possibly a buzzard. Edit, it’s big, I mean really big in a -that won’t fit in the oven big

Watch out, Prince Phillip will eat it.

 

One of my favourite Prince Phillip quotes is when someone once asked him what Swan tasted like and he responded "Very much like Osprey"

 

I'm pretty sure he was joking.

(I bet it tastes more like Seagull)

[richardmorris]

I’ll ask him if he comes over. To my knowledge I’ve had grouse, pheasant, quail and pigeon. Quail was a faff and not much meat, but the wood pigeon is very good. All sustainable, free range and hormone free.

 

At the moment I have about forty Canada geese in the field outside making a racket. No one seems to eat those though, but I don’t know why.

[anonymous user]

I remember Rupert, a family friend, describing what we eventually worked out was probably quail served to him in France.

"It was like a bloody starling, with its feet in the air" at another venue he was convinced they served him axle grease on toast. Rupert was a Pembrokeshire farmer who had reached his seventies without ever travelling more than 30 miles from home. When he finally retired he decided to visit friends who had bought a winter villa in Spain. He did not like the idea of flying so went by car via ferry. He took a sack of potatoes with him, in case they didn't have any in Spain. He was a damn sight more adventurous than I am.

[MarvinsMom]

no one eats canada geese cos no one, except Jaws,

has, erm, teeth and Jaws strong enough to shew through it!

 

known why its called Canada Goose? cos its flown all the flippin' way here from Canada.

 

we, well my folks got given one for christmas once, and not even the bloody dog could eat it.........

[paulplom]

On the subject of wild birds, this has been circling overhead for a while. Red kite I think, or possibly a buzzard. Edit, it’s big, I mean really big in a -that won’t fit in the oven big

Even if you could get it in the oven, I doubt it would taste very nice. You'd be better off with an owl of some sort.