Re: Finishing Silver's Recoil Pads Archived Message
Posted by MarketHunter on November 9, 2006, 5:26 am, in reply to "Re: Finishing Silver's Recoil Pads" |
Bringing ducks back isn't that hard once you get the procedure down pat. You have to fill out an imporation form for the USF&W. I just stop at the station and get a few every once in awhile so I'll always have some on hand. Usually, if I've got my form already filled out, they don't even stop me. I just pass it to them through the window, they ask a few questions, and thats it. I put the ducks in the back of the truck so they're readily visible. And as far as the guns go, you just have to fill out a form in triplicate and pay $25. It's good for 60 days from the day of issue. You tell the border guard you've got guns, they stick a little tag on your windshield, you go park at the main building, and they do the form inside. I download and print the blank forms from the internet so I'll have them already filled out to save time. Usually they don't even want to see the guns, occasionally they'll check them to compare the serial numbers to the form but that's about it. Maybe I've always been lucky but I've never had a hassle at the border. I just smile, call everybody sir and mame, and don't fuss about anything. Those border guards can make your life rough in a hurry so being nice is the order of the day. I take all my cartridges over there with me so never have a problem with that. You can normally only buy steel shot in Canada, bismuth and tungsten isn't readily available. There's some sort of limit on how many shells you can cross the border with but I've never got over 50 and I know the limit is higher than that. Actually I've never even been asked. They're much more worried about alcohol and tobacco, they always quiz you about that. I've had to pay duty when I was taking over a load for a seasons end party. But even with duty it's still cheaper than buying it over there. What we do with the ducks depends on what kind they are. Rough ducks like bluebills and stuff we usually just breast out. But good ducks like mallards, canvasback, redhead, etc we usually pick. My friend had a picking machine so that makes it easy. For good ducks I just pan roast them after a quick par boil. Usually do some rice or potatoes with them. I also like to slice up the breast meat in strips and fry it slow, that makes a nice duckblind snack actually. There's a chinese restaurant in Wallaceburg that offers a nice service. If you take them cleaned ducks the day before they'll put on a big spread for you of all kinds of different dishes. We do that a couple times a season, everybody throws in some cash and we have a big feed. We fillet out the meat off the breast and legs of a lot of our geese. Then at the end of the season my buddy takes it all to a packing plant and has a big batch of sausage made. We pick a few geese too, and I roast them up the same as the ducks with just a longer parboil. Stuffing some apples and onion up inside during the roasting takes some of the gamey flavor out as well.
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