"Hey! Wait a sec! That's MY duck!"
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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Around these parts the best way to hunt dove is from the back of a pickup truck. just drive along a long row of corn and blast them off the power lines. Of course it isnt legal that way but I have seen it done.
The dove isnt a very big bird and about the only thing worth saving is the breast meat, but it sure is good.
Apparently you videotaped my last hunt! Too funny ... I am wiping tears and the dogs think I've totally lost my mind.
Best one here. Ding ding ding. LOL Just got a new electric deep fryer for my birthday last week and it is oging to work go-o-o-od for dove and venison. Fried up some gizzards last Saturday. Worked fahn! It's a Waring DF200 Professional and big enoungh to fry a lot of meat etc. Heats back up fast.
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Thanks. Don't hunt them, but I'll read the thread and reconsider. Don't bother pinging me on crow though.
Trail smoked dove.
Fire up CHARCOAL grill.
4 doves whole.
Rub with sesame oil.
Dust in order with: garlic powder, McCormick's Season All, Black Pepper.
Place in pan lined with aluminum foil containing 1/2 inch water. Leave aluminum foil open.
Elevate pan off of grill surface with 2nd pan upside down, underneath.
Place a handful of water soaked hickory twigs (or chips) on fire.
Place cover on grill. Repeat chips/twigs in half hour.
At the end of hour, seal aluminum foil. Replace grill cover. Cook for another hour or two.
Serve Texas beans & rice or Corn-on-the-cob & baked potato.
Mmmmmmmm..........
For a truckload I would.
But lets talk grouse. Now that's a meal.
So how big is one dove breast? Is it as big as one chicken wing?
But lets talk grouse. Now that's a meal.
Mmmmmmm. Grouse Breast. Mmmmmmmm.
Lightly boil dove breast in diluted orange juice to kill the gamy taste and dry on a paper towel. Cover the breast with a mixture of orange marmalade and Tabasco sauce and cook over hot coals to caramelize the sugar. Hotter pepper sauces can be substituted, depending on taste.
Recipe 2
Mix soy sauce, water, and finely chopped ginger root. Lightly boil dove breast in this. Vary the amount of ginger root depending on taste. Dry well and pan fry in a small amount of sesame seed oil.
Of course we'd eat them. Have to be careful not to overcook, though.
1) Wrap dove in bacon & broil. Good w/rice & mushrooms.
2) Marinate (20 min or so enough) & stir fry -- can supplement with chicken if hunting wasn't good. I was going to say "if it wasn't a good day", but every day we'd go out hunting was a good day. Over!
And look at that proud Yellow Lab in there . . . he thinks they're ALL his . . .
oooh! looks like someone offended him, lol.
I love that ad -- guy plays the part so well.
Umnnnn.
I have bookmarked all these great recipes.
Have any of Ya'll read the article I posted, and realize the organization wants these recipes?
Gosh, ya'll might win the prize.
Damned bird of peace eaters.
Can you imagine how horrified the pink (code pink) people would be to learn that people actually eat birds? Leetle, leeetle birds of peace, that never hurt anybody.
I'm sure that some of them would cringe at the thought, right after attending dinner with such peaceful, thoughful, historical figures as Hugo Chavez, Brother Fidel Castro, etc., that people actually consume helpless animals with no choice in the matter.
Thanks for all the recipes, fellow freepers. Now I must go and consume an animal, and lots of cruel byproducts (burp)
Umnnnn.
I have bookmarked all these great recipes.
Have any of Ya'll read the article I posted, and realize the organization wants these recipes?
Gosh, ya'll might win the prize.
Damned bird of peace eaters.
Can you imagine how horrified the pink (code pink) people would be to learn that people actually eat birds? Leetle, leeetle birds of peace, that never hurt anybody.
I'm sure that some of them would cringe at the thought, right after attending dinner with such peaceful, thoughful, historical figures as Hugo Chavez, Brother Fidel Castro, etc., that people actually consume helpless animals with no choice in the matter.
Thanks for all the recipes, fellow freepers. Now I must go and consume an animal, and lots of cruel byproducts (burp)
The proud Yellow Lab did the hard work.
So, they are all his .
8-)
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"Hey! Wait a sec! That's MY duck!"
Nice picture.
It is his duck !
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