… I’m gettin some Norman bates vibes here lol

Used to get some dove hunting, not bad but dang tough, we'd cut breast of dove and pigeon and toss them in marinara to simmer all day.

I like them better than dove, and easier for me to shoot.

I don’t eat them, Les I am…I shoot them off the peak of my building though…

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I have eaten more pigeons than dove. They were country pigeons and the few doves we have usually leave about the time season opens Sept. 1

In Grade 9 a friend of mine came to school with pigeon sandwiches for lunch. Grossed me right out!

He insisted they tasted like roast beef.

The next day, pigeon sandwiches again! C’mon!

I tried a bite and son of a gun it does taste like roast beef! Good, but freaked me out.

Never tried it again.

They build their nests out of grass and such and cement it together with their guano. Lots of it.
Can't do it.

My Grand mother fixed it for us 1 time when I was a kid. Guess it was a treat. I didn't like it. Called it squab. Mom said it came from the farm. Her grandparents place.
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Ate them when I was a kid. Back then you ate what was put on the table or you got nothing.

not awful. taste like dove to me. some states only non game animals can be used for bait. get a meal and bobcat attractor.

My dad raised them to eat when he was a kid. I have never tried them. I should pop a few at the farm and try them out.

We've got a homing pigeon guy here at work that gets all bent out of shape any time you mention shooting pigeons.

I have eaten bushels of them, but it's been years since I last had any. There was a dairy farm across the road from where I grew up. I whacked them often.....even going to the work at times of using decoys in the pastures and fields (homemade decoys, as well as propped up dead ones shot early in the outing). My mother cooked them in various ways. As for them being disgusting and unclean......ever eat chicken??!!!!!!

Sure.

I have ate some, but after getting where they were thick, I'll pass on eating them. Something about where and how they live at times doesn't make me hungry. It seems like this was 324 shot by two of us with pellet rifles. It was a five hour shoot and pick up.

Let's staaht a ..Go fund me page ..for Sam.

Them kids must be eating him out of house and home !!

I have eaten hundreds of them.Grain fed country pigeons are fine eating.Bigger breast than a Dove.

Always viewed by our family as a bonus bird while shooting doves in wheat fields….

Just a dove with bigger breast. Wrap in bacon and grill.

Here is a mix from a king pigeon my daughter got from Keith c and a wild one young one we caught on some clips on the same trip.

The female wouldn't get along with the king pigeon male and took to the wild one.