No dove season in Massachusetts?

[tom tutwiler]

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.

[JJ Roberts]

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

[charlie cleveland]

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

[gman]

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.

[TOOL MAN]

[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.

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[Wilmurt]

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

[J. A. EARLY]

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!