does any waterfowl hunters...

nealhunt61 · #1 04-21-2009, 10:40 AM

does any waterfowl hunters hunt pigeons in the off season? my friend does it all the time and and he uses deoys and the whole nine yards. theres actually a decoy company called soar no more that carries pigeon hunting products and they even have a pigeon hunting video out too. has anyone heard or has done this??

kt · #2 04-21-2009, 02:07 PM

cant say that i have ever attempted to decoy them. how ever if i am crow hunting and i find a field that has a lot of spilled grain, pigeons can be a lot of fun. if you can hit them with consistency waterfowl should be easy.
one thing though... i aint gonna eat them!

fabsroman · #3 04-22-2009, 01:21 AM

kt,

I was taken to a French restaurant once for an interview and they had pigeon under glass on the menu. I passed on that too. I don't think the glass is going to help them that much.

kt · #4 04-22-2009, 08:08 AM

yeah fabs, in europe it is the delicasy of choice, they call it squab not pigeon, but then again they are raised for food, not for living under bridges and picking seed out of cow manure!
kt

fabsroman · #5 04-23-2009, 08:23 PM

lol

You do know that geese will eat seed out of manure too. After it snowed, we hunted a dairy cow field where the farmers were spreading manure in. We clobbered the geese.

skeet · #6 04-24-2009, 01:52 AM

We used to shoot lots of pigeons. We baited 'em and decoyed 'em. Bought some paper mache dove decoys and put white paint on . Worked really well. We were shootin a field full of pigeons one day...Had a bunch of tumblers come in. They were right sporting for certain. We actually got paid to shoot pigeons. They were pests around grain elevators and in some towns. Five of us shot more than 100,000 one year. BTW....many of 'em got eaten. They really aren't bad if you eat the young ones

fabsroman · #7 04-25-2009, 10:55 PM

The old ones probably aren't bad either if you are starving.

Mr. 16 gauge · #8 05-02-2009, 05:44 PM

Don't 'hunt' them here, per se.....prefer to use them for dog training instead (when I can get my hands on some).
Quite popular in the U.K.....I believe the species is "wood pigeon", and they are consumed.
I still cant get myself to try one....even though I've held them captive and fed them the best cracked corn money can buy.

skeet · #9 05-03-2009, 01:52 AM

Pigeons aren't bad. Ya just eat the breast anyway so you pick the breast and tear the breast off. Cook 'em like ya would a dove. Or debone the breast and cook 'em in a crock pot with onion soup mix. Oh cut the breast into small cubes...make a gravy and pour the thickened stuff over long grain and wild rice..little broccoli or asparagus and they are great. I also remember my grandmother fixing a depression era dinner of my sister and I and 2 cousins one day. She had a little Remington 22 pump rifle with a smooth bore. She threw out some bread crumbs and shot about 30 sparrows. She breasted them out and fixed up sparrow in gravy with mashed taters and peas. Hey it was reaalllly good. Surprising what turns out to be good when you is hongry.

grayghost · #10 07-30-2009, 04:06 PM

I used to shoot pigeon's here at home when I was in my teen's. We would play like they were ducks. Each different color would represent a species of duck, with the common gray ones being labled as Mallards. Now I shoot them (rock pigeon) in Africa. They can be quite the challenge, but my all time favorite are still the water type fowls. Here or over there.
grayghost