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Unread 06-14-2012, 05:12 PM   #11
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Shooting pigeon's ? I get the nuisence part , but do you fella's eat them ?.... if so ,how cooked ? .
Just curious ,the only thing I've ever used them for was tightening up the pup's.

Plus we don't have the amount's up here that would cause an issue.
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Unread 06-14-2012, 06:31 PM   #12
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We tried to eat a couple we killed when I was a kid. They were tough as bullwhip leather. I think there's a good reason people think so highly of the squabs, they've got to be a lot more tender.


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guess theres no use me trying to eat some piegons since you boys done tried it...aint got false teeth yet but if them things are tuffer than bull whoop leather id soon be wearing some... charlie
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Pigeons are excellent table fare, when properly prepared. They are essentially just large doves. If your results are tough, or liver tasting, they are over-cooked.
Try filleting the breast meat, and stir frying in garlic butter sauce. Cook fast, high heat, serve slightly rare. (pink inside)
Tender and tasty!
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Gentlemen,

One should not eat pigeons that eat from a field of crap. We shot pigeons near chicken coops.

Pigeons that feed on grain would be excellant eating.
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I've shot geese that had been doing the same thing, picking corn out of the cow piles. We gave those away.....

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yep my grandpa said he quit eating possums when he saw that one coming outa of a dead cows belly one night while hunting...charlie
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Poppycock!! In Vermont the turkeys we shoot in springtime have spent the winter hanging around the manure piles at the dairy farms pickin' corn kernels out of the slurry.

Roy tells us he has a 'herd of turkeys' of around 140 birds that spend the months of deep winter right at his barns.

There is absolutely no difference in flavor and I ain't dead yet... (operative word, "yet")
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I routinely kill doves over spread manure. 40+ years of ingestion, no problems and I'll bet you if tested, they are have less harmfull bacteria than most of the restaurant food you consume. But most of all they are deeelicious.
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Dean and Daryl,

So that explains it!

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