Third one this spring

nice going. some good eatin right thre. only wish that we could hunt doves in Massachusetts, but sadly no

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Tons of them in my area, invasive species on the feds list. I do my duty as a responsible citizen and try and eliminate 1 every chance I get. A mess of them breasts in a crock pot, ya buddy!

I’m keeping my eye out for them just South if you in Missouri. I’ll try to do my part. What the best way that you’ve found to prepare the breasts? Thanks Seth. 

I imagine these taste the same as a morning dove? I use the saying loosely, “I wish they were in my area” so I could shoot some but we have enough invasive species around here so we don’t need any more. We can’t hunt morning dove in Michigan so I don’t get to eat them too often. My favorite recipe for them is dove breast, bacon wrapped jalapeño poppers, you should give it a try. 

Yeah, sounds like a decent recipe. Mine is similar, fry up the diced dove in oil, add to a stir fry vegetable mix with rice, soy sauce. Good stuff right there.

Teds pigeon pie recipe is dang good and easy. I put my own spin on it but i use it often on dark meat birds.

Is that the type of dove that is near pigeon in size ? I see them sometimes in NorCal but mostly morning doves. You guys are making me hungry with all this preparation talk. I've had morning dove long ago where they were marinated in sherry, garlic, olive oil, pepper, salt and a liitle honey. Then grilled just till done. They were excellent! Only drawback was they were taken with a shotgun. Had to watch for small lead shot. With all rain we have gotten I'm seeing a lot of pairing Valley Quail. They are the main reason I bought my Sig ASP20. The Valley Quail is my favorite eating game bird.