[quote=Stephen Hastie;38827]Bill wood Pigeons are very good to eat there some good recipes for them in most game cookery books. one of my favorites is Pigeon Pate yum yum.
Steve[-- My now late pigeon shootin' pal with the well-worn LeFever Nitro Special grew up in the "Dust Bowl Dirty Thirties" near Terre Haute IN- on a large farm, loaded with "airborne poopsters". His Mother would cook the tender ones she called "squabs" and her test was to straddle the back of the deceased poopster with her hand and squeeze the rib cage, if they sprung back, it was a young and possibly tender birdie- if not, it was an old-timer and was dumped down the old "two-holer" and later dusted with unslaked lime-or fed to the barn cats. With a 12 foot capacity chest freezer in the cellar full of pheasant, ducks, Canadas and venison- eating the pigeons that fall to my 12 bores, not a really pressing issue, for the nonce anyway..
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