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Other Hunting => Coyote, Small Game, Varmints => Topic started by: adutton on July 17, 2013, 12:21:41 PM

Title: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: adutton on July 17, 2013, 12:21:41 PM: They are supposedly invading our state and they are free game. But has anyone actually been hunting them? If so are they good to eat? where are you finding them? etc...
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: 92xj on July 17, 2013, 12:24:02 PM: 1- Yes, mostly during the normal dove season, keeps the trigger finger safe and legal.
2- Yes, bigger morning dove. Cook and eat the same way as you would the morning dove.
3- Where they are.
etc.....
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: adutton on July 18, 2013, 01:12:55 PM: Well... were are they? LOL my guess I won't have much luck heading out into the woods or desert, my guess is finding some fresh plowed fields might do the trick? Am i at least on the right page?
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Post by: Heredoggydoggy on July 18, 2013, 01:31:28 PM: No, I've never seen them in the wilds. They seem to prefer human company, and stay around residential areas. (Except that they seem to avoid my area, for some reason! :chuckle: )
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Post by: Mfowl on July 18, 2013, 01:41:27 PM: I have seen them out in the Columbia basin and around Yakima. Mostly near farmhouses or just outside of town. I haven't had a chance to shoot any yet but would in a heartbeat. Hopefully this year.
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: 270Shooter on July 18, 2013, 01:42:45 PM: they do seem to like to hang out around residential areas. Once in a while we shoot one or two hunting mourning doves, also they seem to be a lot dumber than mourning doves and do not fly nearly as fast.
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: 92xj on July 18, 2013, 01:43:13 PM: gravel, water, trees, powerlines, east side of state. (Never hunted, looked, or spent more than 10 days on the west side, I'm sure there are some over there, but couldn't tell you anything about them)
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: WSU on July 18, 2013, 01:49:56 PM: There are a decent amount down here in Olympia if you know where to look.
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Post by: kenlguy on July 18, 2013, 02:19:18 PM: Residential area is right. three years ago we had two hanging around my gravel lot. Now there must be a dozen or more in the mornings. Trouble is, they are perfectly safe here and they don't seem to want to go anywhere else.
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Post by: eastsidemallard74 on July 18, 2013, 02:20:07 PM: They are all in my backyard, by the hundreds everynight, if I had a decent video on my phone I would prove it.
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: CamoDup on July 18, 2013, 02:41:40 PM: I have seen a bit here in Yakima. Both in residential and out in the country. I know some guys that hunt them year around, they just set up like they are hunting mournings but you have to be extra careful when pulling the trigger. I have killed 4 eurasians in my yard this year.
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on July 18, 2013, 02:44:25 PM: We get a mixed bag during general morning dove season around here. That is the only time I mess with them.
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: fly4fish on July 19, 2013, 10:44:36 AM: I have yet to hunt or eat any, but I tend to see them in same areas as pigeons. I think a lot of people mistake them with pigeons because they are the same size, have a similar tail, and fly a lot a like. I see them by grain bins all the time and all over town here in eastern WA.
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Post by: MtnMuley on July 19, 2013, 10:47:31 AM: I shoot every one I see year round on my property. Too many escaped with the Gampo, so I went with the trusty 12.
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: steen on July 19, 2013, 07:23:48 PM: I see them at the farm every day!
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Post by: Heredoggydoggy on July 19, 2013, 10:18:44 PM: I see and hear them all over. They coo similar to a Mourning Dove, but the call is throatier and deeper sounding, and it ends differently. They let out a raspy "hoot" when they fly over. I've heard Starlings give out a short call as they fly over, too. Sort of a warning or alert call, near as I can figure...
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: seth30 on July 23, 2013, 06:50:12 AM: No shortage of them in whidbey island :tup: I have been thinking about using a airifle and trying them out. Are they legal to harvest year round?
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: 92xj on July 23, 2013, 07:00:46 AM: Yes
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: h2ofowlr on July 23, 2013, 07:17:06 AM: Quote from: seth30 on July 23, 2013, 06:50:12 AM
No shortage of them in whidbey island :tup: I have been thinking about using a airifle and trying them out. Are they legal to harvest year round?

You can hunt them year around. Don't think they can legally be hunted with an air rifle.

I hunt them with the shotgun.
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: seth30 on July 23, 2013, 07:19:53 AM: Quote from: h2ofowlr on July 23, 2013, 07:17:06 AM
Quote from: seth30 on July 23, 2013, 06:50:12 AM
No shortage of them in whidbey island :tup: I have been thinking about using a airifle and trying them out. Are they legal to harvest year round?

You can hunt them year around. Don't think they can legally be hunted with an air rifle.

I hunt them with the shotgun.
Dang it they are all over my neighborhood. Not sure how much my neigbhors would enjoy the sound of my 12 gauge and the bb's falling on there homes :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: MtnMuley on July 23, 2013, 03:54:29 PM: Quote from: h2ofowlr on July 23, 2013, 07:17:06 AM
Quote from: seth30 on July 23, 2013, 06:50:12 AM
No shortage of them in whidbey island :tup: I have been thinking about using a airifle and trying them out. Are they legal to harvest year round?

You can hunt them year around. Don't think they can legally be hunted with an air rifle.

I hunt them with the shotgun.

Why couldn't they be hunted with an air rifle? No different than a starling. :dunno:
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: Gringo31 on July 23, 2013, 04:02:32 PM: I see more than I see of mourning doves. Frankly, I prefer them. Why not? Invasive yes but bigger is better? :dunno:
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: Limhangerslayer on July 23, 2013, 04:27:35 PM: I've shot a couple. :chuckle:
Title: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: tr122 on July 23, 2013, 08:56:37 PM: There's always at least a half dozen in my backyard. Never see them out in the field though.
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: dreamunelk on July 23, 2013, 09:13:46 PM: Quote from: Limhangerslayer on July 23, 2013, 04:27:35 PM
I've shot a couple. :chuckle:

One hunter striving to help the environment. Good job!
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: Limhangerslayer on July 23, 2013, 09:24:17 PM: Quote from: dreamunelk on July 23, 2013, 09:13:46 PM
Quote from: Limhangerslayer on July 23, 2013, 04:27:35 PM
I've shot a couple. :chuckle:

One hunter striving to help the environment. Good job!

That was our opening day shoot 6 limits of morning doves and 40 plus collared.
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Post by: Maverick on July 25, 2013, 10:15:35 AM: Dang things keep finding ways into our pheasant pens. I prefer eating them over mourning dove because they're bigger.
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Post by: coyotecrazy on July 25, 2013, 11:52:50 PM: They are thick in Ephrata. City ordinance doesn't allow even an air gun. Blow gun?
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Post by: syoungs on August 08, 2013, 12:27:24 AM: im starting to think that I have these and not pigeons all around my property. im gonna put the sneak on em and try and figure it out, if it is eurasian collards, its on. I love me some doves in a crock pot!
Title: Re: Anyone hunt Eurasian collared doves?
Post by: Hermit on August 19, 2013, 09:37:23 PM: I shot a few last year hunting mourning doves near Bridgeport. Tastes like....... a Dove. Lots of them on the West side, anywhere people feed song birds.... I saw some by Conway, in the trees by the river and in the fields near Headquarters.