Don't care for the taste of duck, do ya?
Words By: North 40 Outfitters
Posted: October 12, 2010

I've been hearing how people don't hunt ducks because they don't like to eat them since I could walk. So last year a friend of mine who works at for the Reno Fly Shop invited my girlfriend and I to stay at his cabin at the Canvasback Duck club near Fallon, NV. I was probably more excited than my girlfriend about the opportunity.
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This place is more than a standard duck club, these guys take waterfowl hunting to a different level. We stayed in a 400 square foot cabin with 7 black labs. There are decoy rooms, calls everywhere, duck boats, duck mounts, cleaning rooms, kennels--it is a duck hunting community of about 100 cabins. The streets are named after ducks.

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4 am the sirens go off to meet at the town hall where we there is a Powerball that decides your duck blind fate for the day. Sirens then sound at shooting light and it's game on. However, in the evenings the harvest is taken to the kitchen for a true taste of how duck is supposed to be cooked, and it's simple. My girlfriend, also undecided on how stoked she was for the single dinner option of BBQ duck was also floored by how great duck is when cooked properly.

Instructions for enjoying your duck:

  • Get duck breast from duck
  • Roll in olive oil
  • Roll in rub (the best I have ever tried is Duck Commanders Cajun Rub 3.99 @ North 40 Outfitters)
  • BBQ about 3 minutes on each side on the grill between 350-400 degrees
  • DO NOT OVERCOOK DUCK

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This will be the best thing you have ever imagined (maybe an exaggeration) it is seriously amazing. However, I will say that opening day Jesse Ova who is manager of the Havre store came down for one of our Duck BBQ's and his exact quote was this, ''I hate to admit this, but that was the best duck I have ever had." My head grew in size after that experience but I can't take credit. Dave Stanley and Mario Walther from the Reno Fly Shop have changed my opinion on duck and hopefully you can try this at home. Duck Commander Cajun Rub is in stock at Colville, Havre, and Great Falls North 40 stores. - Sam Wike