Morrell hunting

[Smashby59]

I dont know if this counts as hunting, but I always take an air riffle with me when I head back to the woods. I don't know the range of these for sure but I've been told from Pennsylvania to the eastern part of Kansas. I live in Missouri and hunt them on the farm every year they are a delicacy around here and my favorite part of the spring.

I brought home 42 and left probably a dozen at least out in the woods because they were so small. 

 

[wethy]

I'm in Indiana, I've been hunting those units for fifty years. Love em. My favorite way is bread them in crackers and cook in real butter. good stuff

JPW

 

[davelarson]

That’s definitely hunting! And really good eating too. Nice bag!

 

[DonC]

I really enjoy them. High end prices if purchased at exclusive restaurants.

 

[AlaskaAirgunner]

My favorite hunting!

 

[Kevin23]

Awesome pictures! They have me itching to get out there! We have another week maybe two here where I am in Iowa before the small ones just start to come up. Last year I wished i would have taken an air rifle with me almost every trip, the endless sparrows and starlings! This year I will have a rifle over my shoulder 

 

[DadsKrag]

We find them regularly here along the Canadian border in NY state and I know that they are quite common in Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan..

 

[Smashby59]

Thats awesome I didn't realize that went that far north or east. Looks like u found quite a handful of them too.

 

[Quad82]

Mother’s Day weekend up north and a couple weeks sooner around my place. 

 

[DadsKrag]

Thats awesome I didn't realize that went that far north or east. Looks like u found quite a handful of them too.

I opened up my old decrepit laptop and found some pictures taken a few years ago. All found within walking distance of my place near the Canadian border. When we 1st moved here we didn't know they grew this far North nor did/do the locals know about them much (at the time). My Ex found one at the edge of our yard while mowing and then my son came home from fishing the river behind the house with his tee shirt full of them. We started hunting them from that point on.



That's Canadian beer BTW. Labatt Blue Lite







My Granddaughter was 6 years old at the time when this was taken on May 15th of 2015







All set to be dipped in egg and dredged in flour.







Ready for eating.







This picture was taken at a local IGA in Morgantown, Indiana, just a few miles down the road from where I lived until June of 1998. Note the price! $70 a pound! There's quite a market for fresh Morels in the Midwest.

 

[DadsKrag]

Mother’s Day weekend up north and a couple weeks sooner around my place.

Yep, 1st or 2nd week of May here depending on the weather.

 

[Nutcracker]

 Lat year here had a bumper crop. This year is starting off bad, dry. One time about 45 years ago, when I would do anything. A friend & I got ran off a piece of prime morel property. In our defense the person who ran us off, never owned the property either. Well we left & drove down the road about a mile. I stopped the truck & my friend ask what I was doing. I said that lady ain't going to eat those morels & I don't see any sense in them rotting into the ground. So we hiked up a mountain to a bench & hiked backtrack a mile, repelled down a cliff right under her nose. We got over 500 in a hour. The worst part was getting back up that cliff. To old fat & more respectful for that kind of stuff nowadays.

 

[JohnnyPDX]

Geeze Man that's quite a haul and what a delicacy.

I immediately pictured a fat beef rib-eye with those cooked in BUTTER and all over the steak with a piece of rustic french bread.

 

[DadsKrag]

Geeze Man that's quite a haul and what a delicacy.

I immediately pictured a fat beef rib-eye with those cooked in BUTTER and all over the steak with a piece of rustic french bread.

IMO. they're better dredged in flour and cooked crispy in HOT oil. It allows the flavor to come through without the butter masking it. They are good either way though. Don't forget to soak them overnight in saltwater to drive out the slugs and bugs.

https://youtu.be/X1funFoCVpc

 

[JohnnyPDX]

Geeze Man that's quite a haul and what a delicacy.

I immediately pictured a fat beef rib-eye with those cooked in BUTTER and all over the steak with a piece of rustic french bread.

IMO. they're better dredged in flour and cooked crispy in HOT oil. It allows the flavor to come through without the butter masking it. They are good either way though. Don't forget to soak them overnight in saltwater to drive out the slugs and bugs.



https://youtu.be/X1funFoCVpc

I trust your judgment and gladly volunteer to prove you are correct!

 

[DesertSilver]

Hey, vegetarians like to hunt too!

 

[Corvid_hunter]

Cooked in a cream sauce with a tiny bit of dill over perogies as part of the traditional Christmas Eve supper is how I remember them.

 

[rob_g]

We have morrells up here in Canada too. The best ones I ate were as a kid with my buddy beside a trout stream about 2 weeks before the season opened. Nothing like trout fresh from the stream with a side of morrells.