sombody educate me on Pigeons

a j cave said:
I shoot lots & you can have mine!(shipping extra). Like stated they are at best cat food.
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Yup...I shoot one every day for my barn cat.

He eats the head first. :eek:

Pigeon shooting is good practice...on a windy day, they are some of the toughest targets you will ever shoot at.
 
kastles said:
How 'bout "sort of eating crow shot anywhere" :)
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what do you think rook rifles were used for? One species of crow was shot for food in England up until around WWII. They were shot out of trees just about the time they were fledged and before they could fly. I gather there were more or less picnic outings to shoot them

cheers mooncoon
 
So most seem to use shottys to shot pigeons...how many have done with with a .22? There's planty of them along the tracks here, probably eating spilled grain.

When I was a kid, my friends and I would raid the hayloft at night with a flashlight and a fishnet, cram them into cat carriers, and sell them to the local orientals for $5 ea.
 
I used too have a shop on Schoolhouse Rd in Coquitlam the rafters were full of pigeon they would roost at night there s**tting all over the drywall that made up the ceiling (major health hazzard actually) and they would fly over to Shadowlines during the day to pick up the grain from the transport trucks.

Every year my uncle and his family would come over climb up into the attic that the hundreds of pigeons roosted in and with a straightened out cloths hanger with a hook on the end would score the young pigeons they were fully grown but still unable to fly out of their nests.

He would take home over 100 at a time...

He said they were awesome about the best meat he had ever eaten.
 
I have eaten rock doves (pigeons) in the Fraser Valley farmland areas. The ones we got there often had a hint of "silage". I have taken quite a few while hunting upland birds in southern AB, and they are very nice to eat. Best is to bone out the breasts and grill them hot and fast to medium rare on a propane grill.

Okay, now I am hungry.
 
i'm trying to find'em here in alberta, but haven't been successful yet... there's a myth about pigeons being rats, which i personally disagree with... i've hunted and eaten pigeons a lot abroad, and there's nothing wrong with them....
good luck find them... try some farm lands and some crop gathering areas... might be ur best bet
 
They are non-protected wildlife in Nova Scotia. (Any number, any time, anywhere.)

I haven't eaten them. (Yet.)
 
we ate them growing up on the farm .generally caught at night in the barn hay or straw mows using a flash light when they are roosting . they are good eating .
 
When I was in my early 20's I worked for an oil company that had a distribution terminal and tank farm at the edge of town. There was a huge pigeon problem there. Some dude almost fell off a catwalk one night as he spooked some roosting birds.

One day my manager approached me as he knew I was an avid duck hunter. He asked if I would consider bringing my shotgun to work as a permit was given by the local police to "dispatch problem pigeons". Better yet, they would buy all the shells I needed to get the job done.

Almost could not contain my excitement. Next day at work I was met by a case...those days that was 500 rounds... of Peters Blue Magic trap loads at my locker. I can clearly remember the number of kills that evening...176 birds. Also believe it or not pigeons get smart rather quickly. Think I killed 700 plus that summer.

Those were the good old days fellas! How's that for a pigeon tale?
 
M12shooter said:
When I was in my early 20's I worked for an oil company that had a distribution terminal and tank farm at the edge of town. There was a huge pigeon problem there. Some dude almost fell off a catwalk one night as he spooked some roosting birds.

One day my manager approached me as he knew I was an avid duck hunter. He asked if I would consider bringing my shotgun to work as a permit was given by the local police to "dispatch problem pigeons". Better yet, they would buy all the shells I needed to get the job done.

Almost could not contain my excitement. Next day at work I was met by a case...those days that was 500 rounds... of Peters Blue Magic trap loads at my locker. I can clearly remember the number of kills that evening...176 birds. Also believe it or not pigeons get smart rather quickly. Think I killed 700 plus that summer.

Those were the good old days fellas! How's that for a pigeon tale?
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That would have been a lot of fun. I use a Condor air rifle and can pick them off the top of an elevator. It takes a shot ot two to figure out the elevation though.
 
Awesome story M12...

My funniest was the same pigeons that my uncle would cull except we also used to shoot them with a pellet gun.

One of the ladies that worked in the same building was an anti everything one day I stuck my head up into the attic area and saw the largest pigeon that I had ever seen around there I let it have it with a pellet.

That bird flew out of the and sailed right down to the end of the building where it fell dead at the feet of this anti...

It was such good humour she didn't know what happened to the bird so she just bent down picked it up and thru it into the garbage bin.
 
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