Dave , Most beaches that have horse clams have butter clams if you look around a little. They are way better for chowder and great if you spit them in half and fry them in the half shell. Horse clams are tedious to clean and yield small amounts of low quality meat.They just doesn't have the flavor of butter clams. Even if you scald the necks the skin doesn't peel off like a geoduck neck and you end up spending too much time scraping them. I probably should just shut up and be glad some are happy with horse clams and leave the others clams on the beach .