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STAN! STAN! Calm down Dude! We gonna have to get you on some meds, son! We were gonna start cutting wheat today, but had a light rain so couple more days..We do have a LOT of local doves here, way more than usual, in addition to the collared kind. Got my garden in, Destroyed the car on the way back from a Rodeo inn Kacee Wyoming..I MEAN destroyed it..Hit a herd of deer at 80 MPH. If I was younger, I woulda said, jes a Rodeo Saturday nite..

I'm calm.

I'm just extremely focused.

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SRH

I'm with you Stan. To me, September 1st is one of the best days of the year.

Goillini, tell your dove field man to replant the field with brown top millet. It will make in about 60 days, and doves love it. No fertilizer needed. That was all we planted for many years until we began with sunflowers in the late 70s. The trick is to have a fairly sparse stand of it so the ground will be bare in places for the birds to land. The only other way is to plant it thick, mow it and windrow it after it matures, then bale it, or burn the windrows. The mowing and windrowing will leave a majority of the seed on the ground for feed.

SRH

Thanks Stan. I will tell him.

The fields I've hunted make use of brown top as well. Crop manipulation, including burning, is legal for doves but will land one in big trouble with ducks. Gil

Let's hear about some good dove recipes. I took my skeet shooting buddy dove hunting last year, then after the hunt I cooked some rare on the charcoal grill. My buddy started gagging..... he didn't hurl, but it was a close call. ;-). I thought they were o.k., but not all that great. Sure not quail or grouse. I'm guessing there's a way to make them tasty, but I just haven't figured it out?

Breast out the doves, soak the breasts in cold water for three days, change out the water daily.
Use aluminum foil on the grill to prevent hot air from drying out the meat.
Sprinkle the doves with Tony Chacherre's Original Creole seasoning.
Cook to medium rare.
Serve with wild rice, green beans, and raspberry sherbet.
Mike

p.s. remember they are DARK meat, do not try to treat them like light meat.

p.s.s L.D. Pleased you are OK and posting after the deer run-in

DOVE RECIPE! BACON WRAPPED POPPERS
use only the breasts and let them soak in salty, icy water for three days...change out water each day.
filet the pure meat from each side of breast leaving two pieces of boneless meat.
pkg of thin, smoked bacon...cut each slice into two pieces.
lay one side of a dove breast on a bacon piece, place a piece of onion, a slice of jalapeno, and a slice of water chestnut on the dove meat, wrap the bacon around it and secure with a toothpick...no other seasoning is required, but you can certainly do so.
These are very good grilled, but are superb cooked on an electric smoker. You must use thin sliced bacon; if thick cut bacon is used, by the time the bacon is fully cooked, the dove meat is overcooked.
When these poppers are almost done, bathe them in any good BBQ sauce that has been thinned down to a soupy consistency and let them finish cooking until the bacon is crispy....the sauce glazes on the popper and gets down around the ingredients.
My BBQ Sauce: Sweet Baby Ray's sweet & spicy brand - pour into a pot, add some water to thin it, a little vinegar, some Tiger Sauce, a dash of lemon juice and a few shakes of Tobasco sauce and heat.
Appropriate liquid refreshment and a good after dinner cigar enhances the experience of these finger-lickin' good dove poppers. NOTE: this recipe works equally well with chicken, deer backstrap or tenderloin, fajita meat, etc. etc.

Those recipes do sound good. Gary, ever tried thin prosciutto ham with your recipe instead of thin bacon? I bet that would be good too and prosciutto is very thin. Sams Club sells prosciutto btw if you want to try it.