Eating Eurasian Collared Doves

[Carl 9.3x62]

Anyone eat them? I've got a pile in my trees. Too many houses around for shotgun work but pellet gun could be fun.

 

[Nick87]

Taste the same to me. Let em have it.

 

[Lmartin5]

I've had them...very good fried or grilled.

You can also remove the meat from the breast, wrap in bacon with jalapeno and cream cheese.

Make a dang good popper!

 

[LuketheDog]

Anyone eat them? I've got a pile in my trees. Too many houses around for shotgun work but pellet gun could be fun.

They're tasty!

 

[Rack Daniels]

Paging @Big Fin
Haha!
They always live in places I can’t seem to use any kind of projectile! I’ve heard Randy say they’re delicious in videos!

 

[Big Fin]

They are great. I eat them whenever they show up around my place south of town. We've shot a few in Nevada and Arizona.

If they were hanging out near my place, they'd be converted to a meal. Thin slice their (already small) breasts and make a small batch of fajitas with them.

 

[huntin24/7]

We have lots in town but I never see them out of town even dove hunting a mile from town. I’d assume they taste just like mourning doves though.

 

[Drake4]

Piles of them around my place all year round

 

[Bigjay73]

Just as good as a white wing or mourning, wish I could shoot them with a pellet gun where I live

 

[mtmiller]

Just as good as a white wing or mourning, wish I could shoot them with a pellet gun where I live

Shoot, Sauté, Shut up

 

[D4570]

Just like chicken

 

[brymoore]

I shoot them when they fly by my dive spot. Taste the same as morning dove to me.

 

[Potsie]

.22 pistol with a can and subsonics works well in semi rural locations, or so I’ve been told.

No first hand experience.

 

[npaden]

Agree with everyone else. Taste is identical to mourning dove but about 30% bigger.

 

[R.K.]

Fantastic. Cook to medium rare.

 

[Hunting Wife]

Invasive species. Eat as many as possible. Do your mourning doves a favor

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Might have to give them a shot then.

 

[mdeerjunkie]

Shot one in the backyard and cooked it up for breakfast this morning. Pellet guns work fantastically.