Yes, it's awesome. After you've done that, smoke a duck and make a gumbo with it, if you haven't already. My uncle always makes a ton of smoked duck gumbo after the first weekend of hunting season.
Same - I grew up eating poultry/sausage or seafood gumbo. I also like file in my seafood gumbo. My uncle is deathly allergic to shellfish so we didn't eat seafood gumbo often, because we always made enough gumbo for big family gatherings. And it's so damn expensive to get enough seafood to make a big enough pot. ALTHOUGH a few years back, in what is possibly the most southeast TX thing that's ever happened, my dad was riding his bike down Gulf (the street) behind a shrimp truck and a 75-lb bag of flash-frozen shrimp fell out. The driver didn't notice, so he waited a few minutes and when the truck didn't come back around, he went home, got his truck, went back to the bag (it was about a block from home), loaded it up and brought it home. The shrimp was still frozen so he and my mom spent the evening bagging it all into 5-gallon ziplocks and putting them in the deep freeze. They brought us several bags the next time they came to town. So that's one way to make affordable seafood gumbo.