Weirauch HW80K vintage???

Duck is good. Pigeon is not bad either, just a pity there is so little meat on the breasts for the amount of work you need to put in to get it.

Whats your take on pukeos? I only tried it for the first time a few months ago, but I was really impressed with it and would happily eat it regularly if they were not protected with a closed season.

Rabbit is good, and there is no shortage of rabbit around here. I could supply my family with an endless supply of fresh rabbit meat, but after my 12th experimental rabbit dish I was banned from bringing any more rabbit into the house...

Hare is flippen delicious! I came up with a Hare and Coke recipe in the slow cooker, served with some mash... excellent!

We should ask Nunga to start a "Recipes" section where people can post their "Game and Pest Recipes"

A thread on eating our quarry and recipes etc sounds like a good idea.

I've never shot Pukeko for the pot only culled a few. I was put off by the old joke that you cook Pooks with a Maori adze head and boil it for three days and three nights. And then eat the adze head.

Maybe I should try them, but technically it takes a game bird licence and the 12 gauge I think. Are they still listed game birds? I've not shot a bird season for a few decades and the licence is getting pretty dear unless you're doing a lot of bird hunting - which requires a dog.

Yeah I'll happily eat pigeons but the two Doves I nailed were so tiny under their feathers with a very skinny breast - you'd need 4 for a feed for one. And so tasteless I wouldn't bother again.

I love rabbit and I'm sure people who don't know better would swear it was chicken. 

I usually cook smaller birds like me Mum cooked quail - skin and clean them and stuff them and wrap a rasher of bacon around each bird. Then cook them long and slow with lots of basting so they don't dry out. The butter rich moist stuffing helps too... I do the same with rabbit back legs. The tiny back steaks are good for stewing but you need a few of them.  

sh*t Pauly find a place that has owls an hawks, falcons, recovery. They might be into the meat. Even the zoo?

Head shot only?

Pauly, you don't know what you're missing mate...love those bunnies.
Man this lead poisoning business is getting PC and out of control I reckon. I must have eaten a lot of no. 8 Quail shot in my time, let alone the no. 5 duck and pheasant shot.

Maybe I should be dead...I can understand keeping it out of waterways because it will stay there but the odd bit of shot or pellet never killed anyone. I think. Surely all the lead on roofs keeping rain out that went straight into the house water tank back in the day didn't kill anyone?