Dove hunting - What gun are you taking?

[Dean Romig]

Unfortunately I've never had the pleasure of dining on dove breast.... Someday I hope to.

Are they anywhere near as fabulous as woodcock breast?





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[TxHuntermn]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Unfortunately I've never had the pleasure of dining on dove breast.... Someday I hope to.

Are they anywhere near as fabulous as woodcock breast?





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Wow Dean....If you like Woodcock, or Snipe, you will love dove breast.

[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Unfortunately I've never had the pleasure of dining on dove breast.... Someday I hope to.

Are they anywhere near as fabulous as woodcock breast?





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I guess you either love eating woodcock or hate it. I fall into the latter catagory. I always ate everyone I shot and picked the birds like I do all my birds, but I really didn't enjoy them. I ate them out of obligation. I must admit that my bird dogs loved the woodcock bits I gave them. But what do they know, they also eat poop.

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Unfortunately I've never had the pleasure of dining on dove breast.... Someday I hope to.

Are they anywhere near as fabulous as woodcock breast?





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Taste more like a hawk.

Woodcock and doves have pretty much the same type of meat since migratory. Some people think doves,woodcock and duck are too gamy. To each his own.

Harry deboned and brined his for about 10 mins which really is helpful taking away a good bit of gamy flavor and is excellent table fare for different recipes for the over. Unfortunately when I get a mess of Doves its breast on the bone wrapped in some half cooked bacon over the grill with a sliver of jalapeno inserted into dove meat. I can't seem to get by this one and believe I could eat half my weight with this recipe sans those pesky daily limits.

Those doves by the bird feeder are stacking up and taunting me right now.

[J. A. EARLY]

Took Mosby for his second hunt today. Took with me a Sweet 16 and a mint condition Light 20. Decided on the 20 when I got there at daybreak, with an extra Poly-Choke barrel I picked up at a gun show last year. Mosby got to retrieve all fifteen birds, with my help on about three of them. He sure saved me a lot of wasted time since they are hard to find in a cornfield.

A little over a box for the fifteen birds.