Band tailed pigeon?

[hoytem]

Anyone gone after them and if so are they good to eat?

[bobcat]

Many years ago we shot a few, when they still had a regular season for them. Now you need that special authorization or whatever they call it, and as of September 1st it's something like an extra $15 for that. IF I remember correctly, they taste similar to duck.

[Curly]

They are better than duck.  They taste like doves.

[clindsayrun]

We had tons of fun hunting the band tails. We'd hike all day up in the hills following the flocks around above the berry patches. Maybe shoot one or two. Lots of work, but loads of fun. I hear they live along some of the beaches on the coast, but I've never hunted them over there.

[Curly]

Probably has been 25 years since I've hunted them.  But I remember them tasting pretty good.

[BOWHUNTER45]

Now here is another species that went down hill .... love hunting them but now its permit only ....one freaken pigeon .... WTH they thinking about .... no sense in having a season at all for one pigeon a day or whatever they have going on 

[hoytem]

My buddies all got the migratory stamp. We've seen flocks and flocks when we were bear hunting so it shouldn't be much work.

[fethrduster]

I used to hunt them in a place called pigeon springs near La Center, WA.  You would sit in the trees and wait for them to fly up the valley overhead as they prepared to land in the cedars behind.  There was a game dept. parking lot, and it was a lot of fun.  Now the place is a subdivision.   It's all about habitat.   

[Alphamax]

I got my licence but now they want you to go in and by a harvest card just to hunt them and your only allowed to hunt 2 a day.

[bigtex]

I got my licence but now they want you to go in and by a harvest card just to hunt them and your only allowed to hunt 2 a day.

Have needed a harvest card for many years now, use to be free though...

[87Ford]

I've seen a few here and there while bear hunting.  Nothing to get me very excited.  I have the authorization, but I haven't really found any numbers worth targeting.

[Hermit]

I used to shoot them out of the top of the fir trees when I was a kid with a .22.  I tired of rabbit we'd eat pigeon... Yes they are WAY better than duck. They feed their young with a milk substance they regurgetate. When they paved over the high mineral springs to build strip malls in Cailf. in the 70's their numbers dumped. I remember when the elder berries were ripe there were huge flocks everywhere. You look for their lookout sitting way up alone..... watching.

[87Ford]

Saw a few today, but not many. 

[BOWHUNTER45]

I found the mother load yesterday while coming back from bear hunting ....seen a couple really good flocks so hopefully they will be on the come back again .....This is in an area where we used to shoot the sheet out of them in the 90 s but then they petered out and it went to permit only ....I think it was 1 pigeon ...what is it now ?

[hoytem]

I believe I read 2 a day.