wanta kill swan

[Justin Mcdonald]

I'm thinkin about starting a guide service that focuses on divers and swans in the north eastern part of North Carolina. And I was wondering if you guys would have any intrest or even be willing to pay to shoot swans and divers.

[Killer Miller]

Divers? Personally, I shoot plenty of them on the Mississippi with my dad? Swans? I would love to shoot a swan for sure. That would be awesome!

[Richie]

Well considering i go to Va. every year for both, why not. I'm game. I got my tundra swan permit in the mail today.

[kingkilla]

do you have to tag swans or what. cause we cant shoot em hear in iowa. how do you decoy swans? do you put out flamingo decoys or what? :D lol

[Richie]

If we get 1 in Va. we have to stop what your doing, fill out the tag, wrap the tag on the leg and then notify whomever needs to be notified. Kind like a deer but without having to make a call. As far as decoys, we use swan decoys, put maybe 2-3 out and hope for the best. Last year my guide got 4 people to shoot 4 of them.

[Justin Mcdonald]

Hey kingkilla, yes you do need to have a swan tag but there not to hard to get. all you have to do is enter in a drawing for state residance and whats left over is for out of state residance.

[Justin Mcdonald]

Richie, I do use swan decoys made from trash bags and white poles and yes swans are that stupid and will decoy to that. Only if they feel confidant to do so.

[Tripp_kilntime_Carraway]

Justin,

What part of NC are you from? I use to guide in Hertford Co. I have killed many swans down there. They are a beautiful birds, however they are dumb, and they fold up really easy. LOL Shoot me a e-mail or something, i still have some pretty good places down that way.

[Justin Mcdonald]

Tripp,

I currently live in chapel hill, but not becouse I chose to be, my parents sent me theree for the school systems, but I am origanly from swan quarter and used to hunt lake mattamuskeet and the pamlico sound but all my old contacts have eather mooved,died or just stoped pickin up the phone so finding prime swan feilds has become a strugle yet I have managed to find 2 feilds about 1 mile long by 2 miles wide and there between new lake and lake mattamuskeet. If you know any any good places feel free to speak up.

[SMOKE]

just saw the nock em down guys shootin swans on chasin the flight the other night. u gota have some kind of special permit i gathered from the show. and for decoys they just had some swan floaters. one of the guys shot a big swan. hell they had swans landin in the decoys while they were puttin them out.

[Tripp_kilntime_Carraway]

Shoot me a pm or e-mail. We might be able to work something out.

[kingkilla]

do swans eat? are they good or bad tasting?

[Tripp_kilntime_Carraway]

I have eaten swan before. Its all on how you cook it. We breasted one and put it through a meat tenderizer and the grilled it, it was some of the best fowl I have every eaten.

[njhonker]

I'm just heard that swan tastes somewhere in between very bad and horrible and has the consistancy of an old tire....

your right though...its all in the preparation....

[corey carston]

Ive had black swan pattys and there not as bad as they sound.Lots of guys over here paint flambeau converter head floaters black with a red beak and they are devistating.