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Air Gun Home Forum Index » Hunting, Pest Control, Varminting » first kill in a while Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4  Next    View previous topic :: View next topic  first kill in a while   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:10 am Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 It was a funky, cold and rainy day in Phoenix yesterday. The doves seemed to have found their way back to my neighborhood and were hanging around my house trying to stay out of the rain. I hadn't shot a bird in about two months, but I grabbed the talon and loaded her up with a dome and took aim the bird at about 8 yards. I put the crosshairs on its belly since I knew I'd last been shooting about 2 inches high at that range. I fired and it dropped like the life had been sucked right out of it. Turns out the pellet passed through it's ribs exploding its heart and exiting out its shoulder. The bird was dead before hitting the ground. And of course I cooked it up for dinner as well. Not a bad job considering I managed to make a 2 month old cold bore shot and get an instant kill. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:23 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Not that airguns get really hot. _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:44 am Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 To coin a phrase, broom. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:11 am broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands A wonderful phrase, on that. Cheerio and what not. How was the bird by the way? Stewed it? _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:17 am Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 I just baked her at about 400 for 20 minutes. Came out perfect. It's only a few bites, so no sense and dressing it all up crazy with seasonings. It has enough natural flavor any way. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 10:00 am dummyracer36 Senior Member Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 723 Location: St. Louis, Missouri just out of curiosity, how do you clean a dove? do you skin it? or pluck it? not that i have many doves around, and i KNOW my wife wouldnt eat it. _________________ "not tonight dear, i have a race in the morning"   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:17 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 You essentially rip the breast meat and sternum from the rest of its body, and then you remove all the skin and feathers as well so you are left with a perfect section of breast meat. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 3:47 pm broommaster2000 Moderator Joined: 10 Mar 2007 Posts: 5714 Location: City of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands You often see fried chicken with the skin baked crisp still on. Germans are known for their half fried roosters, also with skin. Not a good idea on doves? _________________ BIG GAP   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:39 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 No, small birds like doves or quail you can skin and cook. Dove more so than quail because doves are naturally a dark, greasy meat, but quail are dry and white like chicken. A dove breast can be baked, as is, and come out fine. I've wrapped it in bacon before when cooking it as well. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:02 pm Crosman140 Senior Member Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Posts: 663 Location: USA I've never heard of eating a dove. Very nice. I see there is a whole undiscovered world out there for me to enjoy. _________________ My Critter Gitters .22 Crosman 140 (1955) .177 Crosman G1 (2009) .177 Crosman 1377 (2009) .177 Daisy 880 (2019) BB Daisy Red Ryder (2012) BB Daisy Buck (2019) BB Crosman 1600 (1980) BB Marksman 1010 (1979)   Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:07 pm Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 I hadn't either, but I guess only certain states are known for dove hunting. Mine is one of them. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. Never needed any minister to figure my divinity.   Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:02 am cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 Dummyracer, so your wife doesn't like skyrat (that's what they're called around here)? I don't think that I could get mine to consider eating one either. I shoot a lot of doves/pigeons (even in the winter months), but would never think of eating one.   Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:10 am dummyracer36 Senior Member Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 723 Location: St. Louis, Missouri no cw, she wont eat anything that isnt prepackaged and processed. but my neighbor loves them!! i havent eaten meat of any kind in something like 16 years, but i do enjoy a good hunt, as long as theres someone around to eat what i shoot. well except for those swamp rats that invade my yard and trash cans every morning lol. i do keep the squirrel tails and pelts. _________________ "not tonight dear, i have a race in the morning"   Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:58 am cw Banned Joined: 10 Feb 2008 Posts: 1771 I haven't eaten red meat for 32 years now (I do eat freshwater fish and foul that I harvest). I donate my deer to local food banks every year.   Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:10 am Rogerflat Silver Status Member Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 2051 You'll live till your 90 then cw. Red meat is indeed bad for you over time. _________________ I done been assisted by the trees and rivers. 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