If you can get someone to give you a sandhill crane breast, you will very much enjoy the result. They tast-more or less-like 70% roast beef, 25% turkey, and 5% crane. Absoultely the best tasting big thing that flies.
I haven't hunted crane in several years. It's a hoot, but if you ever wound one, make it dead before you approach it. And leave the dog at home. I met a guy who was going to wring the neck of one with a broken wing. The beak hit him on the cheekbone, luckily missing his eye. Knocked him flat. He got up and shot the bird in the head. (I had noticed the scar and it was so unusual I asked about it.)
Several years ago the OK wildlife folks netted a flock of cranes for tagging. One put its beak through the bicep of one of the workers, and it required medical folks to get out.
But they do taste good. Sort of like a combination of bald egal and whooping crane . . .
I haven't hunted crane in several years. It's a hoot, but if you ever wound one, make it dead before you approach it. And leave the dog at home. I met a guy who was going to wring the neck of one with a broken wing. The beak hit him on the cheekbone, luckily missing his eye. Knocked him flat. He got up and shot the bird in the head. (I had noticed the scar and it was so unusual I asked about it.)
Several years ago the OK wildlife folks netted a flock of cranes for tagging. One put its beak through the bicep of one of the workers, and it required medical folks to get out.
But they do taste good. Sort of like a combination of bald egal and whooping crane . . .
