You'd be dead within minutes if you ate a merganser. We had a slow morning on the lake, only killed one longtail hen. I'm proud to say I was 1-1, my boat mates couldn't hit a cow in the ass with a snow shovel! There are probably a tenth of the birds I'm used to seeing out there. Maybe wind out of the north a couple days will bring more down? I got checked by the dec on the way out, that's my first time in 22 years hunting