What sort of a gamekeeper stands on a pheasants head and pulls it’s legs??? 🙄
Having dispatched many pigeons (and other game), the quickest, most humane and cleanest way is to simply grab it by the wings and crack it over the head with a priest (or shaft of a hammer etc will work fine). Pigeons tend to tuck their heads in though, so watch you don’t catch your knuckles!
I had a squab (baby pigeon) in the garden the other night, must have got caught out in a heavy shower and was soaked through and didn’t look like it would make it through the frosty night. Quick knock on the back of the head and all done in seconds without the mess of blood spurting everywhere (which happens if you pull its head off).