Posted on 08/28/2006 1:32:10 PM PDT by girlangler
Show Us Your Dove Recipes and Prove Anti-Hunters Wrong- (08/28) Michigan Join our e-mail alert list
In their quest to ban dove hunting in Michigan by ballot in November, anti-hunters have stated repeatedly that doves are not eaten by hunters, giving the impression that they are left in the field to rot.
The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance wants sportsmen across the country to prove the anti-hunters wrong by submitting their best dove recipe and perhaps winning a sportsmen’s prize package for doing so.
Anti-hunting groups in Michigan have created a campaign of misinformation designed to win the votes of urban-dwellers and non-hunters across the state. Within every treatise they print or email about why dove hunting should be banned, they state that doves are nothing more than live target practice. There isn’t enough meat on them to make eating them worthwhile. And in fact, they give the impression that no one eats them.
As any sportsman lucky enough to bring home a limit of doves knows, there is a reason that doves are the most popular gamebird in America. Beyond the fact that doves routinely challenge the shooting skills of even the best wingshot, they just plain taste good. Whether it’s grilled, fried or roasted, doves are at the top of the pile when it comes to good wild game fare.
In response to this falsehood by the anti-hunters the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance is asking sportsmen for their best dove recipe. For a gamebird that no one eats, there sure are a lot of recipes for preparing them and the USSA wants them all.
Send your best dove recipe and it will be posted on the USSA website. Show the anti-hunters in Michigan that, in fact, sportsmen do eat doves. There are as many recipes for preparing them as there are hunters fighting to continue hunting these great gamebirds.
Send your recipes, along with name, address, email address and telephone number to info@ussportsmen.org or to Dove Recipes, U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance, 801 Kingsmill Parkway, Columbus, OH 43229-1137.
All recipes will be posted, along with the name and state of its contributor. All who send in a recipe will be eligible for a sportsmen’s prize package featuring a Gerber knife, a Streamlight flashlight and USSA travel mug, shooting shirt and camo and blaze orange cap.
All who contribute a recipe will be eligible. Please send as many recipes as you wish, however only one entry will be submitted in the prize drawing per contributor. Only one prize package will be awarded. The winner will be chosen, at random, on October 1.
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When I was home on leave from the service I dusted off the old 12 bore double barrel and got a bunch of pigeons from the harvested corn field acroos the road. Just plain roasted with salt & pepper, they tasted fine.
Years later, in about 1970, I was working (and had living quarters at) a night club on the East Side of Manhattan. I looked across the street one day and saw about fifty pigeons flocked on the sidewalk, eating who knows what. Suddenly a guy jumped out of an alley wilh a big net and scooped up a bunch of them. I assume he baited them
I love to cook as well, although my kids still have a hard time trying wild game.
We keep at it~
Give me a nice big, bird like a goose, pheasant, or turkey, any day. I can hit them.
Dove hunting is my favorite. I'm pretty good too. I started hunting with my grandpa when I was 10 years old and that's the one hunt that I still like to go on. I like the challenge of knocking them out of the air. We've got lots of Dove in this area. In fact, I can step out into the country behind my house and scare them up most any day. Of course, there are quail too, and I like to hunt them as well. I had then and still have a 410. That's my bird gun. Bird season is coming up in September. :o)
Hey, fried squirrel is great with home fries.
In fact, it's almost as good as fwied WABBIT!!
Sounds good! Doves are more appropriate than chicken, too. IIRC cacciatore is Italian for hunter.
Dang George, them birds look too big to be doves (grin).
I think everything was covered in mushroom soup in the 60s...
I wish I had a plate of dove and quail & my Mom to share them tonight!!!!!
"Wait outside of UN for Doves to appear. On any given Sunday there could be dozens of them. Laugh hysterically at them, call them code pinkos and go to Blarney Stone for some beer and bangers."
LOL -- sounds like my kind of huntin'.
Texas Dove, the only creature that God stuck an afterburner up their ass.
I buy a dozen every now and then for dog training purposes.
Your mom can make peach ice cream out of doves? Move over Emeril!
That's the way I always do them. I've done the sautee route, but I like the grill method best.
..........no kidding.
doves are the F-16s of the avian-world.....
....quail (hmmmm white meat) are slow....sadly, that's one reason the fire ants get to them....nest on the ground...slow flight..
Slice of jalapeno between breast and breastbone on both sides, wrap in bacon, cook outside on the grill.
Well, hey, ninety five percent of folks don't have a clue where their food came from.
Put the average city slicker in a dairy barn for five minutes, he'd heave his guts out and go to his grave without ever drinking another glass of milk!
I still prefer quail and pheasant, though.
-ccm
Season with salt and pepper. Wrap with a slice of bacon, and wedge a slice of jalapeno pepper between the bacon and bird. Grill.
That's the way I always do them. I've done the sautee route, but I like the grill method best.
Good eats, Dog.
Friend of mine ate pigeon eggs once. Tasted like eggs.
their called tree rats down this way , mitey fine in a brown gravy w/biscuits
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