Best Eating Duck?

[HereDuckyDucky]

Canvasback first.

Wood duck a distant second.

GWT and mallards after that...

RW

[Quackwhacker]

Corn fed greenheads!

[Bharlan]

I shot some brant and buffleheads last month for the first time.  After searching the interweb for whether folks ate them, I ran across this thread and became very apprehensive.  Then I ran across the link below that said that you can make meatballs out of "junk" ducks.  Just finished my SECOND plate of spaghetti and thought I'd share the link.  They are good!  I no longer fear the taste of any "bad" waterfowl, and will take whatever my buddies don't want. Heck, this treatment might make polecat taste palatable. 

http://honest-food.net/wild-game/goose-recipes/breasts/wild-duck-meatballs/

BTW, the meat department at the grocery store gave me the pork fat for free when I asked if they had any for sale.

[Blacktail135]

 Thanks for posting Bharlan. Will have to make some of those.

[Madison]

I'll take a corn fed mallard over anything.
The Cans I have heard are the best but in a side by side comparison with a mallard, the can was 3rd.

[dirty24d]

I shot some brant and buffleheads last month for the first time.  After searching the interweb for whether folks ate them, I ran across this thread and became very apprehensive.  Then I ran across the link below that said that you can make meatballs out of "junk" ducks.  Just finished my SECOND plate of spaghetti and thought I'd share the link.  They are good!  I no longer fear the taste of any "bad" waterfowl, and will take whatever my buddies don't want. Heck, this treatment might make polecat taste palatable. 

http://honest-food.net/wild-game/goose-recipes/breasts/wild-duck-meatballs/

BTW, the meat department at the grocery store gave me the pork fat for free when I asked if they had any for sale.

Good first post. Welcome to the site! 

[MP123]

That sounds like a good recipe and I've got some bluebills to try it with.  Thanks!

ANd welcome to the site

[sakoshooter]

Actually shot a merg a couple years ago and dressed it out. Was going to eat it but everyone I talked to told me not too, wish I would have though. Try everything once right?

I shoot quite a few Mergie's. Most just get breasted and into the bulk bag for sausage but I have eaten my share and so have my hunting partners. One even commented that after I talked him into trying it, he couldn't tell the difference between it and the mallard he cooked with it.
Teal are my fav

[jason4429]

I have eaten almost all kinds of ducks.I've only had one duck that tasted bad and it was a shoveler.It wasn't taken care of properly,so that may have been the problem.

[1morebuck]

Here on the salt, I seem to have good eats with the Widgeon. Stripped and cracker crum fried. YUM!

[GoldTip]

Best eating duck is farm raised......

[lokidog]

Here on the salt, I seem to have good eats with the Widgeon. Stripped and cracker crum fried. YUM!

That's funny, the only duck I have ever thrown away was widgeon, from the salt....  I even quit shooting them when they would land in my decoys.  I was down in Coos Bay and after about the third week of the season they started tasting nasty whereas they were quite good to begin with.  All I could figure was they started eating something in the bay that made them taste bad after they had been there  a while.

I liked the widgeon I shot down by Chehalis better than the mallards, though they were good too.