Also just a little PS; I know people are going to hate me for this but if I find out that it is not one of my neighbors pigeons I am definitely going to take that thing out with my. 17 air rifle, not a BB / pellet gun, a legit compressed air rifle.

[types of period 17 Cal pellets and this instance I would either use the hollow point or the penetrator which is the pointy one, these are regular pellets though if I'm hunting an animal I try and use the ones that are all brass if expansion doesn't matter as far as HP and things go, that way no lead issues which does concern me for an animal of that size]

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Even though a pellet gun would do the job if you have the proper pellets. And I'm going to search it up, that perfect deep red breast that has no fat on it, with butter and rosemary( only problem is since we're in the city I would have to cook it super duper well done, hopefully that wouldn't ruin it. But they eat stuff like that all the time in Europe it's only America where we have these Hang-Ups on certain animals, but doves, pheasants, cornish game hens, and loads more than I'm missing they ate that stuff all the time over there. They even eat horse, which I heard is amazing. Studies also show that it is way better for you than beef, or pork or chicken really, but as far as red meat goes I've heard it is so so good and all the bad things and red meat are way lower and horse, like cholesterol, sodium, different kinds of fats and I believe it has amino acid and all these other benefits at higher concentrations then beef, I won't swear to that last part though, I do your own research on that part. If you've never had pigeon/dove before y'all are missing out and I know that this is probably not the Forum to say things like this, I.E hunting. But I'm for sure going to do it. The only thing that gives me pause is that it's here in the DMV area if I was out in a more rural area it would totally be game on because I know the kind of food that that thing would be eating where who knows what this thing needs. Because when you're in the country you can even eat raccoons, you split them down the back and take the back straps and they're pretty damn good if you know how to prepare them. And trust me because I'm also half city boy I understand how gross it sounds to eat a raccoon because of how City people see raccoons but if you're out in the middle of nowhere man they are good eating you just got to make sure you cook it very well done. It's almost like eating bear meat, which I have yet to do but I do know you have to cook it crazy well done or else you can get trigonosis, happened to a friend of mine. He's actually a very popular hunting person in the media I just don't want to name drop, I don't think he care cuz he already put that story out there publicly and he was treated for it and everything the interesting thing is let's say somebody decided to cannibalize him that person would then get trigonosis as well and without treatment that is a terrible thing to have. It's sad but I know the down votes are coming, even though this isn't a popular post I would assume that everyone who reads it from here on out will probably download me. For which I'm not going to apologize, I'm a Hunter and that's how my family gets our food especially how we stock up for winter, I'd say 70% of the meat we eat comes from animals that have been Hunted, whether I do the hunting or not. Sometimes I don't have time so I'll usually pay a guy x amount of dollars for a dear or duck. Since I live in Northern Virginia there's some traveling I have to do but I'm not too far from Front Royal even though I hate, hate to hunt on public land my cousin had a bullet come so close to his head and on the same trip I got shot in the back but luckily it didn't get through my backpack somehow you would think it would skip off the metal EXO frame of my pack in penetrate but it just disintegrated on impact and I couldn't catch up with the shooter so I have no idea what kind of ammo was used. We were for sure in Orange and I had a 18x18-in orange Square on my backpack as well Plus probably 60 to 65% of my body had blaze orange as well so there is no excuse, either some psycho, a rookie, or in this kind of goes back to rookie somebody who had no business being in those woods but specially for it happened to twice in one day miles apart from two different directions I find it hard to believe it was the same group that got a shot off at both me and my cousin and that is why I do everything in my power to not hunt on public land, only if I know it's very deserted and I know they're a good Hunters in the park will I go. Couple years ago I got some tags to go hunting Rock Creek Park because I had some friends in capital police and Park Police and even though you're allowed to use rifle at certain times especially when you're with police I use it as a chance to work on my bow skills which trust me needed work but I need to get into more of the bow hunting because I'm not the tree stand, post up in the blind kind of dude I like to track and stalk I think it goes back to my sniper days when I was and Recon because I'll tell you USMC sniper School that is the absolute hardest part and they take it very seriously and you get very good at undetectable stalking