DOVE SHOOT
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| Cleaning doves after the shoot |
This past
weekend was the opening of dove season in South Carolina. My family has a long
history in the outdoors as hunters and fishermen. Somebody always planted a
field of grains to attract the birds, and many times it was Uncle
Nelson.
More
recently my husband Doug and his hunter friends have taken over this tradition.
They began in the spring by planting a field of sunflowers and corn. Come
harvest time, they bush-hog the plants disseminating the seeds, which attracts
the doves. Unfortunately for the birds, by September, the hunters are waiting
in the field for them to arrive and feed.
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| Matt and the quarry |
After an
afternoon of shooting (and a visit from the game warden), many doves—didn’t count them—were brought in. The
hunters plucked the feathers and took only the breast meat, which was divvied up.
My husband makes a casserole of dove cooked with rice and mushroom soup and his
friends like it.
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| Tony and Josh repair shotgun after the shoot |
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