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Dentry: Dove hunters earn break with late-arriving front
Rocky Mountain News ^ | September 5, 2006

Posted on 12/16/2007 12:07:35 PM PST by george76

SHOOTING TAKES HIT:

Public shooting opportunities in national forests are disappearing, and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter proposes to do something about it.

Ritter says several previously isolated forest shooting ranges have been shut down because of homebuilding nearby, and shooters have been forced into dispersed shooting activities.

Now the Forest Service is considering closing down some dispersed-shooting areas because of development and increased non-shooting recreational use.

Ritter says he would make recreational shooting improvements a priority if he is elected governor. He wants Colorado to take the lead in establishing more shooting ranges, beginning with a pilot program he proposes for the Arapaho-Roosevelt forests.

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: animalrights; ar; banglist; billritter; dove; hunting; nationalforests; pigeon; ritter; shooting; shootingranges; squab
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To: damondonion

Dove hunting falls into shooting for food, or shooting for sport which ends up as food, depending on how you look at it. They are quite tasty. There was a thread last year where we shared our dove recipes. Yum!


21 posted on 12/16/2007 2:05:41 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: damondonion

As they would say on the food channel. Good Eats!


22 posted on 12/16/2007 2:08:42 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Perhaps the troll has retreated? Folks that express lack of approval due to lack of understanding are usually suspect.


23 posted on 12/16/2007 2:09:47 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: george76

What about the additional Federal tax we pay on ammo and sporting equipment...I thought that was for hunting habitat and development of facilities? I guess it’s the equivalent of Social Security.


24 posted on 12/16/2007 2:11:00 PM PST by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
I think you nailed it. Lack of understanding is what I usually except from a knee JERK liberal.
25 posted on 12/16/2007 2:19:11 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Roses are reddish-Violets are bluish-If it weren’t for Christmas-We’d all be Jewish.©®™)
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To: kAcknor
"Keeping promises after a champaign is something politicians of both parties have problems with."

After enough champaign I don't even remember the promises I may have made. ((hiccup)) ;^)

26 posted on 12/16/2007 2:31:13 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: IndispensableDestiny
Pigeon carcasses make a good base for soup

Does that also apply to "city" pigeons? I have always thought that they and squirrels were riddled with diseases so have never thought to eat them.

Just something my grandmother used to tell me.........FWIW, she also told me not to eat watermellon seeds as they would grow in my stomach........LOL!

27 posted on 12/16/2007 2:32:24 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde
Perhaps the troll has retreated?

I hope so. Just came in from shoveling the driveway for the 3rd time today so I just want to relax.........

28 posted on 12/16/2007 2:34:02 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: damondonion; george76

Some people like eating doves, including myself.

Others don’t like shooting skeet.

One thing is certain, if hunters and shooters keep turning on each other (like when grouse hunters don’t like bear hunting, compound bow hunters against crossbows) they won’t have to worry about the Humane Society of the U.S. bringing an end to the hunting tradition, they’ll do it themselves.

As long as the dove, bear, etc. populations are so that hunting is allowed, and it is done ethically and lawfully, good.

Many U.S. Forest Service offices are filled with people who don’t like hunting, or shooting, for that matter.

Keep in mind most public lands were purchased with hunters’ dollars, and these dollars contribute much to the management of wildlife on public land. Hikers, mountain bikers, rock climbers don’t contribute one dime to this.

The hunters in Colorado need to remind those who are the subject of this thread this often.


29 posted on 12/16/2007 2:43:34 PM PST by girlangler (Fish Fear Me)
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To: Clint N. Suhks

A dove might in fact make a meal for a human; if the human were about 25 inches tall.


30 posted on 12/16/2007 2:51:21 PM PST by damondonion
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To: damondonion

That’s why the bag limit is 15.


31 posted on 12/16/2007 3:01:14 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Roses are reddish-Violets are bluish-If it weren’t for Christmas-We’d all be Jewish.©®™)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Pigeons are nonmigratory.

I’ll stick with real game birds thank you.

32 posted on 12/16/2007 3:03:46 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Roses are reddish-Violets are bluish-If it weren’t for Christmas-We’d all be Jewish.©®™)
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To: Clint N. Suhks
Pigeons are nonmigratory. I’ll stick with real game birds thank you.

Does that have anything to do with whether or not they can be eaten?

33 posted on 12/16/2007 4:23:52 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: damondonion
A dove might in fact make a meal for a human; if the human were about 25 inches tall.

Same thing could be said for a perch. Thats why there is no limit on them either.......

34 posted on 12/16/2007 4:25:32 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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To: Hot Tabasco
They can be eaten and are in European countries.

But as far as wild game is concerned migratory game birds
seem to be less prone to disease and in better physical shape, but I could be wrong.

35 posted on 12/16/2007 4:34:09 PM PST by Clint N. Suhks (Roses are reddish-Violets are bluish-If it weren’t for Christmas-We’d all be Jewish.©®™)
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To: XeniaSt
This is why people love to shoot doves. It is called sport

Yes, it is.

I especially like to sit while the game comes to me. I only go on opening day and only shoot the ones coming at me. Cuts down on the "lost in the corn field" birds.

36 posted on 12/16/2007 4:34:25 PM PST by woofer (Earth First! We'll mine the other eight later.)
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To: woofer
The guy was a troll

37 posted on 12/16/2007 4:38:08 PM PST by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: damondonion
A dove might in fact make a meal for a human; if the human were about 25 inches tall.

So when you eat a peanut...that makes you 1 inch tall?

38 posted on 12/16/2007 5:42:34 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: BOBTHENAILER

Suppose you had to gut and defeather each peanut before eating it... Would you still eat peanuts?


39 posted on 12/16/2007 5:59:47 PM PST by damondonion
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To: damondonion
Suppose you had to gut and defeather each peanut before eating it... Would you still eat peanuts?

Your mom just called son and she said it's time for you to come home. You have to go to school in the morning and she doesn't want you to miss the bus........

40 posted on 12/16/2007 6:09:00 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Visions of sugarplums dancing in your head are probably caused by bad drugs.....)
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