2018 Wicked year of hunting

Hey folks, hope you all had a great hunting season. This year was one crazy year with a bunch of lifers. Earlyer in the winter months, I got permission to thin out some pigeons at a farm near Englehart, and ended up getting a few and they tasted really good. Around Feburary myself and a few friends whent down to Oshawa to hunt pheasants at a game farm and were successful, lots of hens but not many roosters released that day. Myself and couple friends booked a hunt for snow geese with St Laurence Outfitters and while we had a few tough days, we had a good day and had some nice delicious snows for the year too, plus I also got a bonus band too.

Around spring I moved down south to the Midland/Wasaga beach area for work. I checked out some of the simcoe county lands and got a few European Starlings. Closer towards fall when I was scouting areas for ducks, I got a big ol porcupine, man are they ever tasty. For a good portion of late September/ early-mid October I was hunting Eastern Grey Squirrels and was pretty successful once I figured them out, lots of the black phased but grey phased was pretty rare, luckily I lucked out into one. Surprised not many people hunt them anymore as they are really tasty. Managed to do some waterfowling down there and got a male lesser scaup which I was wanting for sometime. I also booked a gamefarm hunt for chukars and quail at Highpoint Hunting Preserve and had a blast plus I got my male pheasant finally. I also tried Luther Marsh for first time with family, nothing to crazy I got one male greenwinged teal which had beautiful colors. Before I moved back north, I hunted hard for cottontails managed to get a few from the Simcoe county lands. In overall this was an awesome season, hope u guys had an awesome year like I did.

New Species:

Rock Pigeon
Pheasant
Snow Geese
European Starling
Porcupine
Eastern Grey Squirrel (black and grey phases)
Chukar (gamefarm)
Bobwhite Quail (gamefarm)
Eastern Cottontail

Other goals:

Sora adult
Lesser Scaup drake
Greenwinged Teal drake

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You've been a busy lad , way to go. Good on ya for eating the porky too. Are you using an air rifle as well?

Cheers

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Originally Posted by smitty55

You've been a busy lad , way to go. Good on ya for eating the porky too. Are you using an air rifle as well?

Cheers

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12Ga all the way

Great season. Good for you. Seems like there’s something to hunt if you take every opportunity

You have certainly had some interesting meals on the table - lol. I can't believe you didn't get a racoon or a yote. Congrats.

What does porcupine taste like?

Quite frankly, its never occured to me to eat one, and on the occasion I have to shoot one thats chewing on the porch I just might next time.

Porky is actually pretty tasty. I tried it dusted in Italian bread crumbs and pan fried in a bit of butter. I'd say it was kind of like pork chop/cottontail flavour. I'd take it over snowshoe hare any day. Young groundhog is just as good as cottontail IMO if you bread it and butter fry it. A bit of a turn off when you gut a pine pig, as their intestine is usually completely packed with tapeworm. Nothing is transmissible but the worm load is kinda gross.

cool pics. thanks for posting.