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Shooting pigeons for food.

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MegaVovaN

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Hi all, my friend is an exceptional cook.

He says pigeons are damn tasty, but on the market they cost $6 each, which we think figures around $12 per pound!

So we want to take pellet gun with decent scope and 1000 fps velocity (0.177 caliber, aka 4.5 mm) and go shoot some pigeons TO COOK AND EAT.

Question is, where to do that? Don't want to do it in public - police may take away the gun/stray pellets may hit people.


cliffs:
pigeons = tasty but expensive
want to shoot for free
to cook and eat.
Where to shoot?
 
I hope you and your friend eat them raw so as to ensure your painful and public death that will then nip this nascent urban sport in the bud.
 
1. Set up bird feeder in the suburbs (your backyard for example).
2. Set up backstop behind bird feeder (concrete, thick wood)
3. Shoot pigeons that come.
4. Profit$$$
 
I wouldn't try to eat city pigeons - they are essentially disease carriers with wings.
Now, pigeons grown on a farm specifically for cooking - that's another story.
 
Hm... I don't think you would want to shoot random pidgeons. The young ones make the best "squab" meat and certain breeds are going to be better than others.
 
Why not start up your own urban pigeon control business and get paid by the city to hunt them?

As far as eating them goes, I would imagine that they taste similar to a mourning dove when properly prepared, which is quite tasty.
 
Check with your state's fish and game agency to find out where and when you can hunt them. Also unless you're hunting on your own land you'll need a hunting license.
 
Originally posted by: paulney
I wouldn't try to eat city pigeons - they are essentially disease carriers with wings.
Now, pigeons grown on a farm specifically for cooking - that's another story.
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Yup. However, some enterprising souls sometimes go out and capture a bunch of city pigeons, cage them, then sell them.

Pigeons used to be considered an excellent food. It's only due to the association with city pigeons that people turn their noses up at them.
 
Originally posted by: Perknose
I hope you and your friend eat them raw so as to ensure your painful and public death that will then nip this nascent urban sport in the bud.
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Do you have sympathy towards pigeons? What's wrong with this "sport" ?

Originally posted by: KB
1. Set up bird feeder in the suburbs (your backyard for example).
2. Set up backstop behind bird feeder (concrete, thick wood)
3. Shoot pigeons that come.
4. Profit$$$
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:thumbsup:

Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Why not start up your own urban pigeon control business and get paid by the city to hunt them?

As far as eating them goes, I would imagine that they taste similar to a mourning dove when properly prepared, which is quite tasty.
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Sounds good! How many pigeon headshots out of 10 shots? Practice makes perfect 😛

Originally posted by: dainthomas
They nest in their own feces.
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Pigs live in their shit, yet I still eat pork.



I told him that city pigeons may be sick, but he just says "I'll cook them well"...
If all fails, I guess the idea with backstop on backyard is best.
 
LOL.

I get this funny imagery of some bum shooting pigeons in the city.

Edit: You should try eating pigeon off of a naked Asian model.
 
Originally posted by: gamepad
LOL.

I get this funny imagery of some bum shooting pigeons in the city.

Edit: You should try eating pigeon off of a naked Asian model.
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I am gonna satisfy myself with said model first.

btw, shooting them is not a sport, it's FOOD.

In Leningrad, USSR 30 years ago that's what people ate, they ate more pigeons than any other food.

At night, go on the roof, shine flashlight to blind pigeons, pick them up, twist neck and place in the bag. When 100-150 of them were collected, bring over friends and alcohol - vodka, wine, beer. Eat about half, hang other half (couldn't eat other 50-75 pigeons) outside to freeze.

I think we will opt for backyard feeder with stop, for headshot variety of pigeons.

P.S. Rats are very tasty if you kill them without penetrating their gill (sp?) bladder or some other bladder in the guts, - when cooked properly.
 
Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Why not start up your own urban pigeon control business and get paid by the city to hunt them?

As far as eating them goes, I would imagine that they taste similar to a mourning dove when properly prepared, which is quite tasty.
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he isn't going to be able to shoot them. he'll probably have to do it humanely or not even kill them at all, just move them to a new location.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: JDMnAR1
Why not start up your own urban pigeon control business and get paid by the city to hunt them?

As far as eating them goes, I would imagine that they taste similar to a mourning dove when properly prepared, which is quite tasty.
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he isn't going to be able to shoot them. he'll probably have to do it humanely or not even kill them at all, just move them to a new location.
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How do you kill a bunch of pigeons humanely? Capture them and dump in gas chamber?
 
my in-law shoots pigeons. summer time he and his bros stake out behind cars and shoots the little birdies on the electric wires. down they come one by one and the feast on those things, cooked obviously. disgusting
 
Originally posted by: KK
curious what nationality you are?
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he's probably french? i know if he was korean he would be shooting dogs... cantonese, cats, vietnamese, rats... taiwanese, wild sparrow, japanese, young school girl taking a dump, tom cruise, his wife's placenta....

what's your guess?
 
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