Anyone ever use a Waterfowl Junkie H-2 Bird Hitch to clean ducks or geese?

if you have a lot of birds to clean, especially geese, they are awesome...
once you start, the Tom Sawyer syndrome takes effect and usually others finish up the pile...

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quit wrapping the breast in bacon with peppers

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I get not wanting to waste the time plucking a whole bird, but It's amazing how many people don't realize what simply leaving the skin on the breast does to a duck. Breast them out but please god leave the skin on at least.

If you skin the breast, you are dead to me in terms of cooking knowledge.

Uh, no. I only want the breast. I don’t hunt that much and really don’t like the rest plus it really isn’t that much meat.

Plus stop trying to tell me what to do.

That little strip of meat on the back is the best part of the duck.

I pluck all of them nowadays, if they are full of pin feathers I skin em out

I work so hard to kill ducks that I feel guilty when I breast them out. I typically only breast them out when they are shot up really bad.

I’ve been waxing a lot lately. I waxed 12 specklebellies two weekends ago and they all turned out great. I was excited to have 12 perfectly cleaned birds in the freezer.

They’re just so much more versatile when you have the whole bird rather than just the breast.

Surprised there's not a yeti model

The old timers used to do the wax thing back when they killed plenty ducks. They all swear by it. We’ve cleaned chickens that way too.

I have one my wife bought me 3 years ago and it's never come out of the box. I tried to sell it but couldn't find any takers. I pluck 90% of my birds and breast the rest with skin on save maybe a spoonie or two that get skinned and the rare black jack we might shoot. I keep the hitch I guess in case I ever make the freelance trip to Canada my buddies always talk about or go somewhere to chase white geese but I honestly haven't ever used the thing. Never hunt snows as my wife has about hit her hunting limit by February 1st anyways and it's not worth hearing the complaints.

On a side note a great recipe with skin on deck breasts is to score them, salt the skin, and sautée on a cast iron skillet on a cook top in duck fat. Hard to beat them cooked this way fresh.

We've used one in Kansas. it takes a few birds to get the hang of it. They aren't worth it for just ducks, but when you have 35 big Canada geese to clean and leave a wing on, it is money.

When I shot a mess of birds I will usually pluck a few, and breast out a few. If I do breast them I keep the legs, and slow cook them. My wife does not like whole duck, but will eat the bacon wrapped breast. So i usually cook the whole birds for me.