Dove recipies wanted..

[decavo]

Quail season start in a few weeks here so i will do a taste taste... A few of the doves I got were livery but mostly not.

I think I am going to cook the dozen i have in the freezer in a curry sauce.

 

[sparkplug]

The only thing quail and dove have in common is when you shoot them full of holes, they fall to the ground bleeding. Both are delicious.

 

[REKCUT]

I dunno about that. I'd bet just about anything that you couldn't tell them apart in a taste test.

And a tukey and a goose taste the same also

 

[REKCUT]

I dunno about that. I'd bet just about anything that you couldn't tell them apart in a taste test.

And a tukey and a goose taste the same also

I like to soak them in a big bag full of jalapeno juice. The longer you soak the more heat. Then debone and shish kabob them with yellow and red peppers. A little dab of mint jelly when you pull them off will really set them off.

Same works with ducks but will actually wrap the meat around the peppers.

 

[tcb]

the spook the same when you're hunting them.

yall must hunt different in "way down in Deep 13." Dove hunting here involves sitting on a bucket with about a case of shells in a field of plowed under sunflowers... The birds come to you. I've never hunted Dove any other way. I don't usually call it "hunting", I consider it to be more dove shooting.

Quail is a lot more walking and a lot less shooting... typically with some dumb ass dog that tries to get himself shot.

 

[tcb]

I have had both. I think they equally made me gag.

I could live for weeks off of either of them... perhaps you're doin it wrong.

 

[wob]

And a tukey and a goose taste the same also

I've never eaten a goose. Or a tukey for that matter.

 

[wob]

you are kidding, right? Quail is white meat, tastes like greasy little rotisserie chickens.. Dove is very lean dark meat, kind of livery tasting like duck. You are about to lose your southerner card.

The only way I've ever had quail prepared was grilled. Yes, they are a little bit greasy. I guess you are right.

 

[Combat Chuck]

yall must hunt different in "way down in Deep 13." Dove hunting here involves sitting on a bucket with about a case of shells in a field of plowed under sunflowers... The birds come to you. I've never hunted Dove any other way. I don't usually call it "hunting", I consider it to be more dove shooting.

Quail is a lot more walking and a lot less shooting... typically with some dumb ass dog that tries to get himself shot.

Around here, the quail and the doves all hang out in the scrub brush and chapparal, and you have to flush them out. The key difference is that the Doves all light out after midmorning, and the doves stay close by.

Further north, where there are fields and grains, then it's more like a traditional dove shoot, but at home "dove hunting" and "small game hunting" are interchangeable.

 

[tcb]

Around here, the quail and the doves all hang out in the scrub brush and chapparal, and you have to flush them out. The key difference is that the Doves all light out after midmorning, and the doves stay close by.

Further north, where there are fields and grains, then it's more like a traditional dove shoot, but at home "dove hunting" and "small game hunting" are interchangeable.

and where is that? Do you use dogs to dove hunt?

 

[decavo]

my buddy has a german short hair he uses to fetch the dove. when that dog is on he is great, then there are the days when that dog can't find the dead birds... Never eaten a quail i look forward to bagging a few of them

 

[Combat Chuck]

and where is that? Do you use dogs to dove hunt?

the north coast of the great state what looks like a sock, in the hills.

We're on property, and the doves come here without game wardens. We still honor the limits and the seasons (no use killing them all off).

We don't use dogs, the quail or doves just spook easily on their own.
I've found that tossing a burl into the bushes is better than making noise from a distance.
We're lucky, too: 20 miles south of us and all the quail are the protected, pampered, hugged and loved valley quail, they just don't like to come up into the hills.
The doves, on the other hand, have an almost overflowing population, to the extend that they're making their way down out of the hills now. I've begun seeing them in vacant lots in the nearby towns.

 

[splitshot]

Never eaten a quail i look forward to bagging a few of them

Hope you get the chance, think you will enjoy it.