[Rhodes22-list] Mourning Doves

Steve Alm salm at mn.rr.com
Fri Sep 17 04:00:09 EDT 2004 

Just by looking at that picture, I'd guess that's a Benelli over/under 12
ga.  At least it LOOKS like a 12 ga.  Even with a light load, isn't that a
little much for doves?  Talk about your shock and awe!?  A .410 is about
right.  Maybe a 20 ga.

But now I can sleep at night knowing that we finally have a resident expert
on doves that can set all us nimrods straight on the genus and species.  8-)
But Grayson's wrong that all I know is how to kill them.  I also know how to
prepare and eat them.  A bird is a bird is a bird, and by any other name
still tastes like chicken!  8-)

Slim

P.S.  "You haven't hunted until you've hunted man."  -Jesse Ventura


On 9/16/04 11:58 PM, "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey Bill,
> 
> I forgive you, hell even W can't tell the difference.
> 
> "On a dove hunt, Bush mistakenly shot a killdeer.
> Recognizing he bagged the wrong bird, Bush admitted
> his mistake to the game warden and announced his
> desire to pay the fine."
> 
> Photo attached.
> 
> Brad Haslett
> "CoraShen"
> 
> 
> --- Bill Effros <bill at effros.com> wrote:
> 
>> Grayson,
>> 
>> Around here we call them "morning doves" "pigeons"
>> and "squab".  Maybe you are talking about some
>> different kind of bird.  I said nothing about being
>> a nimrod, and took no stand on the hunting issue.
>> Your verbal firearm seems to have a hair trigger.
>> 
>> Bill Effros
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Grayson/Ena Lynn
>> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Morning Doves
>> 
>> 
>> Well couldn't you just guess that our little
>> resident band of wind-driven nimrods knows nothing
>> about the beautiful mourning dove except how to kill
>> it.  Can't even get the name right.
>> 
>> The mourning dove (NOT  "morning", please) is one of
>> only four known species of the genus Zenaida.
>> Another is the white-winged dove of the southwest.
>> A third, the Zenaida dove, has been pretty much
>> driven out of its Florida habitat, but may
>> occasionally be found on various Caribbean islands.
>> The fourth species, the Socorro dove (Zenaida
>> graysoni, as it happens), has been driven to
>> extinction by humans within the past 30 years.  All
>> are gone.  Can't kill any more.  Oh darn.
>> 
>> Mourning doves are plentiful and quite tame;  with
>> the right food and a little patience you can shoot
>> them right out of the bird feeder at mealtimes.
>> 
>> The common domestic pigeon, or Rock dove, is an
>> entirely different bird, of the genus Columba.  I'll
>> leave it to you and Google to sort out the rest.
>> 
>> <G>
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
>> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:45 PM
>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Morning Doves
>> 
>> 
>> Slim,
>> 
>> Here on the streets of New York we call them
>> "Pigeons".
>> 
>> In the fancy restaurants we call them "Squab".
>> 
>> A few years ago, one of the largest purveyors of
>> "Wild Squab" was discovered under the Manhattan
>> Bridge netting pigeons by the hundreds.
>> 
>> Bill Effros
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Steve Alm 
>> To: Rhodes 
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 3:33 AM
>> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Hunting, was Forecast for
>> Thursday
>> 
>> 
>> Steve and Brad  (and welcome back, Brad!)
>> 
>> Here in Minnesota, they've just instated a season on
>> morning doves. [Gasp!]
>> You can't believe the flap this little bird is
>> causing--pun intended.  It's
>> come down to a fierce argument over whether it is
>> technically a song bird or
>> not.  These bleeding heart Minnesotans are too much!
>>  And of course they
>> think the hunters are shooting them with...what
>> else?  Assault rifles!  8-)
>> 
>> If huntin' is a redneck thing then Shit-damn, y'all!
>>  Where's that no-good
>> hound o' mine?  If God didn't want us to eat
>> critters, He wouldn't have made
>> 'em out of meat.  Morning doves...yuummmmm!  Tastes
>> like chicken!
>> 
>> Good luck this season, Steve
>> 
>> Slim
>> 
>> On 9/15/04 10:07 PM, "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> :-)good one, Brad
>>> I like a good hunting story.  We lease 3100 arce,
>>> about an hour south of Litle Rock.  I enjoy the
>>> camping also.  We keep the club capped at 35
>> member (
>>> I think we are currently around 31), so there is
>> never
>>> over crouding or to many hunters.  I enjoy the
>> peace &
>>> quite.  
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> --- brad haslett <flybrad at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Steve,
>>>> 
>>>> When I had my farm outside of Nashville,
>> (Tennessee
>>>> is
>>>> a written permission state) I always had lots of
>>>> friends during deer season since I don't hunt.
>> They
>>>> were more that welcome to come take a shot at the
>>>> "rats with antlers".  My neighbor had a much
>> simpler
>>>> system that yours.  He would get up before
>> sunrise,
>>>> put on a pot of coffee, and read in his
>> underwear.
>>>> When the deer would show up to nibble on his
>> fruit
>>>> trees he'd take the biggest one by shooting out
>> the
>>>> kitchen window.  This also served as a wake-up
>> call
>>>> for his wife to help him load it for the check-in
>>>> station.  He got the largest buck two years
>> running.
>>>> 
>>>> Brad Haslett
>>>> "CoraShen"
>>>> 
>>>> --- Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Well then, you are going to love this.  I also
>>>> have
>>>>> automatic corn feeders that go off at dawn and 1
>>>>> hour
>>>>> before dark.  They have photocells on them so
>> the
>>>>> time
>>>>> is automaticly adjusted.  Much more advanced
>> than
>>>>> the
>>>>> old timer method:-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also, I brought me a cell phone with a zoom
>> camera
>>>>> in
>>>>> it.  That way, I can take the buck picture;
>> before
>>>> I
>>>>> kill it:-)
>>>>> Steve
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --- Grayson/Ena Lynn <agl2001 at earthlink.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Now let's see if I understand this:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> You actually go out and deliberately plant bait
>>>> to
>>>>>> bring the deer closer so
>>>>>> that you can shoot them more conveniently from
>>>>>> ambush at your several
>>>>>> blinds?  And you call that hunting?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> What idiot ever sold you a boat?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> <G>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Steve" <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
>>>>>> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list"
>>>>>> <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:42 AM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Forecast for
>>>> Thursday
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Rummy
>>>>>>> I wish we would get some rain.  I planted a
>>>> food
>>>>>> plot
>>>>>>> for deer hunting 4 weeks ago.  Not one good
>>>> rain
>>>>>> storm
>>>>>>> to make the plants grow.  Two week ago, I went
>>>>>> down
>> 
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