Wood Pigeon - Tastes quiet nice.

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After a thoroughly enjoyable meal on Saturday evening, I am just posting to say how suprisingly tasty I found the pigeon to be.

Reminded me of liver.. not sure why.

Yum Yum
 
Interesting, always wanted to try pigeon (and other wildlife). Where did you get it from?
 
We have wood pigeons nesting in our back garden in a pine tree. Pleasant creatures, nice to hear them coo.
 
Jonny69 said:
Interesting, always wanted to try pigeon (and other wildlife). Where did you get it from?
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Was at a local restaurant.

They also had Bream as a main course which I wanted to try, but went for the Peppered fillet of beef which was ZOMG AWESOME.
 
Liverpool-Lad said:
Free food. Can these be legally shot I guess?
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Technically yes, providing you have a license for the gun but make sure it's a wood pigeon and not the dirty flea ridden infected town pigeons.

But it's definately a nice meat, especially with a thick bread sauce.
 
~J~ said:
Technically yes, providing you have a license for the gun but make sure it's a wood pigeon and not the dirty flea ridden infected town pigeons.

But it's definately a nice meat, especially with a thick bread sauce.
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Unless you're hunting with a legal airgun firing at 12 ft/lb. Make sure you also have permission to shoot on the land if its not your own property.
 
Pigeon, quail, guinea fowl et al are all lovely. But as someone has already said they can dry out quite quickly so careful cooking required. Never cooked any of them myself, always been a restaurant or my Mother doing the cooking. I did cook partridge the other week when it was on the cheap counter at Tesco - now that was tasty.
 
Snash said:
Pigeon, quail, guinea fowl et al are all lovely. But as someone has already said they can dry out quite quickly so careful cooking required. Never cooked any of them myself, always been a restaurant or my Mother doing the cooking. I did cook partridge the other week when it was on the cheap counter at Tesco - now that was tasty.
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I've shot and eaten a fair few, found wrapping them in bacon before cooking them over a fire was nice.
 
Shotgun_ned said:
Unless you're hunting with a legal airgun firing at 12 ft/lb. Make sure you also have permission to shoot on the land if its not your own property.
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Its a good Air Arms rifle so should have no probs and theyre forever landing in my brother's garden.
 
Quail is good but don't see it so often in the supermarket these days.

You could always try the old method: bow and arrow ;)
 
Jonny69 said:
Quail is good but don't see it so often in the supermarket these days.

You could always try the old method: bow and arrow ;)
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Or in my case the windscreen of my car whilst out yesterday morning
 
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