Doves skinned and wrapped in bacon with a small slice of Jalapeno inside are super eating when put on a hot grill. When the bacon is crisp they are ready to eat IMO. I like to cook them medium with a some pink inside. Regarding taste, I think they don't taste like anything else out there. I serve them with wild rice and grilled squash.

Tom,What about the wine,red or white. J.J.

doves are good with bacon wrapped around them on the grill but they are also really good with a batter of flour on them and deep fried really good they are...charlie

No dove hunting in Vermont. In my neighborhood they all seem to be local birds and I jump them regularly. I do think that if they had a season around here they would be cleaned out fairly quickly.
I do wish I was going south though for an opening day shoot.

[QUOTE=Dean Romig;199638]Gary, what other bird would you compare the flavor of dove breast to?


Dean: I've dined on my fair share of all three. I'd rank dove a bit right of crow and a bit left of owl. :whistle:

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Yesterday, exercised my 16 month old setter at Crane WMA (E. Falmouth, MA) and came across hundreds of dove. Too bad no dove season.

It would be interesting if they put bands on doves. Some of the ones I killed last week still had pieces of the egg shell on them. However, I love shooting them at Christmas time each year when the season comes back in. I had a shoot of the limit in the snow one day and that was a hoot, since you could not lose them.

Some of them have NY and MA stickers on their luggage as they hit the snow in December and are very plump!