Hunting DOVE for FOOD.....Emmmmmm!

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

First day of Dove season. HOT and HUMID. I mean sweat dripping HOT!
Started at 12pm. No Doves until 4:30 - 6pm. Hunted our Corn field and then went to the Millet field.

You were right WDH....they were coming in behind me.  :D I had to turn around. 

Paul and I managed to get 12 birds. We always clean and give one to our dog Emma. She loves them.

Cleaned them, split them open, stuffed with cream cheese and peppers. Then we wrapped Bacon around them and covered them with Texas Pete.

They're are in the oven right now.......can't wait.


 



  

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[julio]

that lookn better than the chicken

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

that lookn better than the chicken

need you here!

[julio]

wish I was  smiley_horserider

[WDH]

DanG right you need him there!  That Julio can cook ;D.  David, you do pretty good with the eatin' part.

[thecfarm]

I was in PA one year and there was a line of hunters in a small store. I asked what is going on. Doves season was the answer. I think we have them in Maine,but noboby eats them or hunts them either. Good hunting there you two.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I wish Julio and the rest of you were here. These DanG Dove breast are good.
I tried a new BBQ sauce on them I got in another state.  ;D

Had green beans and Pickled Peaches with my Dove.  Don't hit me Raider.



 

[SPIKER]

Have not hunt them since the season first got started way back when in Ohio...   Ate a LOT of them when we were younger our diet was 50% or better wild game & fresh fish..   Raised and ate a lot of Pigeons too just as good and more meat on them ;)

Mark

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Have not hunt them since the season first got started way back when in Ohio...   Ate a LOT of them when we were younger our diet was 50% or better wild game & fresh fish..   Raised and ate a lot of Pigeons too just as good and more meat on them ;)

Mark

I've never tried Pigeon Mark. How do you cook them?

[julio]

I hope RAIDER don't see that it could be a road trip

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I hope RAIDER don't see that it could be a road trip

At least Raider would stay a few days. WEEKEND SAWYER would show up, eat my Dove breast and leave.  :D

[WDH]

I sure hope that you get Raider Bill some pickled peaches.  You don't want him knocking on your door with his goose gun. 

[julio]

If Raider comes Im coming to just listen to the 10000 stories

[julio]

He was pretty mad

[WDH]

David, I would fix this problem ASAP if I was you  ,.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

David, I would fix this problem ASAP if I was you  ,.

Your my personnel Administrator.......fix it for me.  :D...........before it's to late. 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Uh Oh.......Wild Bill just showed up! 

[WDH]

You are on your own with this one.  You got yoreself in it, now get yoreself out of it. 

[wildbill]

dad and i are taking a road trip to SC?  never been there before.  sounds good to me.  never tried pickled peaches

[julio]

the little dog is going to wake up big DOG >:(

[WDH]

Hurry, David, hurry. 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

 Today:      Tomorrow:  smiley_angel02_wings

[julio]

they are on the way  see how quite little Bill is

[WDH]

On no.........I hoped that this would not happen. 

[Al_Smith]

I used to knock them  off of power lines when I was kid with a slingshot but never thought of eating one .The cats seemed to enjoy them though .

[WDH]

One of my favorite wild game meats.  The breasts smothered in gravy and slow cooked in the oven and served over rice, Mmmmm. 

[SPIKER]

Have not hunt them since the season first got started way back when in Ohio...   Ate a LOT of them when we were younger our diet was 50% or better wild game & fresh fish..   Raised and ate a lot of Pigeons too just as good and more meat on them ;)

Mark

I've never tried Pigeon Mark. How do you cook them?

Pretty much just about anyway ya want, fry em with a light coating of flour//pepper mix or maybe some shore lunch mix seemed good to me.   The Bake nice too with seasoning on em just about like the Dove above...   Never tried the Bacon Wrap tho anything "Bacon Wrapped" has to be awesome 8) 8) lol   Most times we pulled out the breast meat and tossed rest to the cats or used em for catfish bait...

Mark

[Den Socling]

When I was a kid I had a flock of big white pigeons. And I had a grandmother who was a long time poultry farmer. Every now in then I'd find a bunch of my pigeons on the dinner table.  :( I guess they were good but I didn't like eating my pigeons or rabbits. When I went out and shot wild pigeons and rabbits, that was a different matter. I loved the wild fish and game I could get.

[drobertson]

One of my favorite wild game meats.  The breasts smothered in gravy and slow cooked in the oven and served over rice, Mmmmm.

Close to the same here, floured up cooked in butter, covered with the lid, then the gravy and rice,  that bacon wrapped did look pretty good too,   david

[Texas Ranger]

Breast out, jalepeno in the cavity, wrap in bacon, cook over mesquite fire.  Um um um.

[drobertson]

Breast out, jalepeno in the cavity, wrap in bacon, cook over mesquite fire.  Um um um.

I was wondering, how do you get crispy bacon and keep the meat from over cooking?   I wrap allot of deer in bacon but often have the meat more done than desired,   thanks,                david

[beenthere]

Don't think the bacon gets crispy..... ;)

[sandhills]

That sounds really good TR, David I like my bacon crispy, I'd throw it on the grill for a few minutes each side first then wrap the meat and put it back on, I like it real crispy though  ;).

[Compensation]

I like mine how Texas ranger does but with BBQ. IMO dove is some of the best meat to eat. You have to be careful though, its a little addicting. Might kill a power line or two.

[Holmes]

I believe pigeon is also a dove.

[beenthere]

I suspect the hunting for mourning doves would be more correct. WI now has a season for hunting mourning doves, and it doesn't include barn pigeons. Pigeons tend to be larger than the dove around here.

http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/WildlifeHabitat/documents/dove.pdf

Getting a dove season in WI was a very traumatic experience for a number of "dove" lovers. Our bird of peace was going to be blasted out of the sky.  They are the "pigs" of the bird population IMO.  ;)

[drobertson]

I remember growing up down south, my dad would take us boys with his group friends to a large farm in Camden, SC.  Lots of birds, great hunts, never will forget those hunts, especially how I was put between two older guys, both with dogs,  I laugh about it now, but not back then, they would rob my birds, and I could hear them laughing at me :D   at the end of the day all birds were divided up anyway, but as a youngster, we all wanted to show off a full vest,   david

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I hope RAIDER don't see that it could be a road trip

At least Raider would stay a few days. WEEKEND SAWYER would show up, eat my Dove breast and leave.  :D

Yep, I would! But I might leave you a pickle or 2! 8)

[Raider Bill]

I hope RAIDER don't see that it could be a road trip

At least Raider would stay a few days. WEEKEND SAWYER would show up, eat my Dove breast and leave.  :D

Yep, I would! But I might leave you a pickle or 2! 8)

Road trip with free food at the end I'm in!!!! 8)

[WDH]

I have had one of those pickles.

[julio]

Pickled Peach's I see

[Texas Ranger]

I have been in a pickle. :

[WDH]

Nope, not a pickled peach.  They are scarce I hear. 

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I do not believe in the existence of pickled peaches.
I think it's all rumor.
I knew a guy who had a cousin whose aunt knew someone who heard about them too. :

[Raider Bill]

Wish I had a poston pickled peach

[Weekend_Sawyer]

If Poston picked a peck of pickled peaches
how many pickled peaches would be in a peck?

[drobertson]

A pile of pickled peaches in a peck,
are better than one, what the heck,
it will be enough for sure,
to satisfy anyone's urge,
this is about dove for sure,
but if dessert is required then give me a serve,
david

[julio]

If Poston picked a peck of pickled peaches
how many pickled peaches would be in a peck?

ZERO 8)

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

If Roy Rumpus road a Raw-bone racer,
Where's the Raw-bone race Roy Rumpus road?

In S.C. eating Pickled Peaches.  :D :D :D

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I took my lady Ruth for a ride one day,
I at 65 i hit a bump and rode on Ruthlessly.
Pickled Peaches.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I took my lady Ruth for a ride one day,
I at 65 i hit a bump and rode on Ruthlessly.
Pickled Peaches.

65?    You don't look a day over 40.  ;D

[Raider Bill]

If Poston picked a peck of pickled peaches
how many pickled peaches would be in a peck?

ZERO 8)

Correct answer.

[julio]

Raider it time for the road trip to check this out. I really want to see these pickled peach Poston was talking about.

[WDH]

If Poston picked a peck of pickled peaches
how many pickled peaches would be in a peck?

ZERO 8)

Right!  They don't really exist.  They were just a made-up illusion to confuse us, obviously.  If they were real, Raider Bill's mouth would have puckered up by now  :D.

[justallan1]

For those who have never had pickled peaches. PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!!
I was in a foster home as a kid with the sweetest, warmest Christian folks I have ever known who were from Arkansas.
When at the supper table and there was only one peach left they seemed to start holding the silverware a bit different and get real concerned looks on there faces.
I was a big kid and a big fan of my moms cooking, but sometimes you just get out of the way.

Allan

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

  Good story Allan. Thanks for sharing.