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Offline txpilot

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cleaning doves
« on: September 27, 2005, 07:18:33 AM »
can anyone give me a quick run through of how to clean a dove?  also, how do you keep the meat from spoiling?

thanks, john

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cleaning doves
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2005, 07:23:55 AM »
snip the wings at the base of the joint and the head with game shears.  Then stick your thumb underneath the breast bone and into the body cavity.  Next pull the breast away from the rest of the bird with your thumb.  Pull until the whole thing comes free from the rest of the carcass.  Peal the skin off the breast and you're done.

They won't spoil with basic meat care.  Just refrigerate or freeze after cleaning.

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Re: cleaning doves
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2007, 08:09:51 PM »
Good advice but in CA you need to leave a wing on for MR GAME  WARDEN

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Re: cleaning doves
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 05:15:32 PM »
Ditto in Arizona!
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Re: cleaning doves
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2007, 11:35:49 PM »
Dove season opens here in TN on Sept 1. Many years it is 100 degrees out. I always carry a cooler w/ice. Just tear the skin off the breast and rip it out of the body using my hands, leaving one wing attached. Put in on ice right as soon as I kill it.

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Re: cleaning doves
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2007, 10:41:56 PM »
I toss the whole bird in the ice and clean them when I get home.

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Re: cleaning doves
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2008, 11:08:10 PM »
Yup! Poke a hole in a sandwich bag if you have to leave a wing on.
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Re: cleaning doves
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2008, 07:15:17 PM »
futureweapon & Az.Jake....I know I'm going to hate myself for asking;but I have too.Why does the GW want a wing left on the bird?Anybody can tell it's a dove.Here in Bama,they just count how many are in the bucket...........Rick
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Re: cleaning doves
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2008, 07:46:24 AM »
In the West, along the Colorado River and southern Az & Cal. there are more than one species of Dove.  The aggregate limit here is Ten birds.  The white Wing Dove can make up no more than Four of these.  The wing is left on all in your limit to identify the White Wings.  To further compound the issue, recent introduction/migration of the Eurasian Dove counts as also part of your ten a day limit.  We lobbied for the Eurasians, as an introduced species to have separate limits, but the D.F.G. doesn't trust us enough to identify the several species, (Yep, you mean like in Duck hunting.)  Besides the CA. D.F.G. no longer establishes Game Management Policy, as evidence of the 1987 no Cougar (Mountain Lion) hunting, and the recent No Lead bullets in Condor Range Law.  All you have to do is collect enough signatures for an Initiative on the next Election or bring a lawsuit in court.  These always seem to pass and are approved basis the "Feel Good/Do Good" emotions of a liberal society.  The Cougars were not endangered in 87, and the scientific evidence did not support the no lead ban.  The DFG and the Hunters that support the DFG through license sales were not allowed comment in court to prove that these actions were not neccessary.  You might say who cares, the regs must be followed for the good, but what these types of regs do is dilute the neccessity for the other regs that are backed by sound evidence and biological science.  Sorry, I'm "Going Off again". Out!
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