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Re: Pigeons hunts in North Texas

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Eurasian doves are identified as an invasive species and can be hunted with no season and no bag limits. You can check the Texas Parks and Wildlife website for details. Same rules apply that have been mentioned above (need a hunting license and landowner permission).

Also, there is abundant Public Hunting Land around the DFW area (mostly north). This information is available on the TPWD wedsite as well. I think the permit to hunt these lands is about $50. I used to dove hunt up around Krum on public land and duck hunt around Ray Roberts Lake on public land.

The Eurasians are bigger than mourning dove but about the same size as white wings. They can be tough to identify if flying fast.

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You can hunt these without a license. ;-)

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WildBill wrote:You can hunt these without a license. ;-)

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I've killed a bunch of those things...

Never can get them to taste right no matter how I cook them...
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WildBill wrote:You can hunt these without a license. ;-)

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Seriously, you'll still need landowner permission to hunt those...
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RJGold wrote:
WildBill wrote:You can hunt these without a license. ;-)

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I've killed a bunch of those things...

Never can get them to taste right no matter how I cook them...
Just like anything else ... Wrap them with Bacon! :drool:
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True...

...aaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnndddd we're back to Bacon....
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Blackfoot Outfitters in Lubbock runs pigeon shoots. I don't know of anything in DFW area.
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RJGold wrote:Eurasian doves are identified as an invasive species and can be hunted with no season and no bag limits.

Can you point to where you found this information? Because all I can find on invasives is this:

Remember, all birds except Rock Doves (Feral Pigeons), Starlings, English Sparrows, Grackles, Ravens, Red-winged
Blackbirds, Cowbirds, and Crows are protected under state law and the fine for shooting a protected bird can be
from $25 to $500 per bird. Check federal laws for additional regulations.
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Bacon???
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03Lightningrocks wrote:Bacon???

I shoot, you pick it up. You are free to do whatever you wish with it.
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Beiruty wrote:
03Lightningrocks wrote:Bacon???

I shoot, you pick it up. You are free to do whatever you wish with it.
I bet you could wrap a rock in bacon and make it taste good! :mrgreen:
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03Lightningrocks wrote:
Beiruty wrote:
03Lightningrocks wrote:Bacon???

I shoot, you pick it up. You are free to do whatever you wish with it.
I bet you could wrap a rock in bacon and make it taste good! :mrgreen:
Lamb/Goat fat, would do that too. In my home country, goat/lamb fat is extracted and made like a shortening for food, when cooked with said fat, food is as good as a Lebanese food can be.
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Beiruty wrote:
03Lightningrocks wrote:
Beiruty wrote:
03Lightningrocks wrote:Bacon???

I shoot, you pick it up. You are free to do whatever you wish with it.
I bet you could wrap a rock in bacon and make it taste good! :mrgreen:
Lamb/Goat fat, would do that too. In my home country, goat/lamb fat is extracted and made like a shortening for food, when cooked with said fat, food is as good as a Lebanese food can be.

I cooked lamb on the grill a few years ago. It was a hind quarter/ham. My son ate it like he had lost his mind but to me it seemed a little "greasy"? . It was probably the way I cooked it.
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Dirthawking wrote:
RJGold wrote:Eurasian doves are identified as an invasive species and can be hunted with no season and no bag limits.

Can you point to where you found this information? Because all I can find on invasives is this:

Remember, all birds except Rock Doves (Feral Pigeons), Starlings, English Sparrows, Grackles, Ravens, Red-winged
Blackbirds, Cowbirds, and Crows are protected under state law and the fine for shooting a protected bird can be
from $25 to $500 per bird. Check federal laws for additional regulations.
I have seen it in several places on the TPWD website as well as the booklets they publish...

This link should take you to the first article that comes up if you search "eurasian dove" on the Hunting Tab of the TPWD website. Scroll down a few paragraphs and it talks about them:

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/l ... dove.phtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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RJGold wrote:
Dirthawking wrote:
RJGold wrote:Eurasian doves are identified as an invasive species and can be hunted with no season and no bag limits.

Can you point to where you found this information? Because all I can find on invasives is this:

Remember, all birds except Rock Doves (Feral Pigeons), Starlings, English Sparrows, Grackles, Ravens, Red-winged
Blackbirds, Cowbirds, and Crows are protected under state law and the fine for shooting a protected bird can be
from $25 to $500 per bird. Check federal laws for additional regulations.
I have seen it in several places on the TPWD website as well as the booklets they publish...

This link should take you to the first article that comes up if you search "eurasian dove" on the Hunting Tab of the TPWD website. Scroll down a few paragraphs and it talks about them:


http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/landwater/l ... dove.phtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
We called them ring neck doves and the white doves you see in magic are related and even the white ones had a faint neck ring. We had about 50 of them and some of their offspring would be the normal color.
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