Iggie
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With the way these birds fly it makes me sad that you can only load three shells at a time. Otherwise those highcap 3gun shotguns would rule the roost.
Who's hunting Dove this year
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reminds me of my best day of dove hunting ever. Got to a freshly cut corn field in Newcastle near the S. Canadian river. When the sun came up there was still a hazy fog in the air....just enough you couldn't see farther than 40 yards real clearly. When the dove flocked to the field they would burst from the fog and be right on top of us. We limited out in 10 minutes. It was a wild and crazy 10 minutes. Probably had my best shot fired/shot hit percentage that day because most shots were straight on. Never had day close to as good as that one.
Topshotdudley
Team Scalpel Arms
I cant wait until dove season we have a few good places hopefully everything go's
as planned!
as planned!
Donovan
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I bet i have seen you shot dove..........the big pond behind my house went dry (need some rain) but the bottom has standing wheat we can try there ......... break in the new benelli
Dux-R-Us
Fear the Duck
Dove hunting the first week and other warm days is a very good way to get your dog overheated and in trouble. Keep your dog wet and have plenty of drinking water on hand. Keep the hunt short.
I don't hunt doves much. I tried it a few times but its is just too bloody warm for me. I'd rather deal with cold and wet. Sometimes when it gets a bit cooler I will take the dogs out and walk up a few doves, but even doing that I worry about my dogs.
Plus I never enjoyed them as table faire, but they are a step above woodcock and snow geese.
I did have one great dove hunt, however, when I was at K-State. A friend and I went out in Oct for the early chicken season. It was a bust, but we found a volunteer Cannabis patch that doves were flying into in droves. It was a great shoot.
Tally ho!
K
I don't hunt doves much. I tried it a few times but its is just too bloody warm for me. I'd rather deal with cold and wet. Sometimes when it gets a bit cooler I will take the dogs out and walk up a few doves, but even doing that I worry about my dogs.
Plus I never enjoyed them as table faire, but they are a step above woodcock and snow geese.
I did have one great dove hunt, however, when I was at K-State. A friend and I went out in Oct for the early chicken season. It was a bust, but we found a volunteer Cannabis patch that doves were flying into in droves. It was a great shoot.
Tally ho!
K
Iggie
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Sept. 1 â€" Oct. 31 and Dec. 22-30, 2012; statewide. is the seasons there should be a few cool days in there somewhere if not the December season should be a little cooler.
dennishoddy
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LOL! They were probably a whole lot slower, and eating a whole lot more!
There were tons of the volunteer Cannibis in that area back in the mid 70's. I used to ride with the MP's on base, and listen to the civi LEO's chatting on the radio while they were waiting on the college students to come into the patches. Rumor was, it was actually hemp and didn't have the THC they were looking for.
Okie4570
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Lot's of doves around it seems, going to give it a try with the longbow and flu flu's. Will probably be humbling! Dennis, looked like you were in good shape for numbers as of Sunday afternoon.
dennishoddy
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Now thats going to be an adventure! I've seen some try pheasant with longbows and flu flu's, and be fairly sucessful, but never a dove. I swear they can see the shot column heading their direction, and swerve at the last minute. You've got to get some videos of that, and your reaction at the end of the day.
BTW, welcome to the board!
Folks, this is a guy that I invited to a match, with a promise to shoot my guns, and he spanked my butt with my own guns......
I need a rematch on this. LOL!
Thanks for the dove report.
Whats amazing to me is that the dove in our area don't seem to migrate anymore. I'm sure some do, but I have a resident population of around 50 birds that never leave that little patch of woods.
January, and febuary, they fly from tree to tree, never leaving the patch.
Walking in there before daylight during deer season, they flush all over the place spooking everthing there. I'm thinking of not dove hunting it, considering the size of that buck I saw last month.
get in there, put in the food plot, and stay the heck out, only hunting when the wind is right. That old collapsed barn makes for a pretty good blind. Killed a ton of deer using the hay loft to set in before it went down.
Okie4570
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Now thats going to be an adventure! I've seen some try pheasant with longbows and flu flu's, and be fairly sucessful, but never a dove. I swear they can see the shot column heading their direction, and swerve at the last minute. You've got to get some videos of that, and your reaction at the end of the day.
BTW, welcome to the board!
Folks, this is a guy that I invited to a match, with a promise to shoot my guns, and he spanked my butt with my own guns......
I need a rematch on this. LOL!
Thanks for the dove report.
Whats amazing to me is that the dove in our area don't seem to migrate anymore. I'm sure some do, but I have a resident population of around 50 birds that never leave that little patch of woods.
January, and febuary, they fly from tree to tree, never leaving the patch.
Walking in there before daylight during deer season, they flush all over the place spooking everthing there. I'm thinking of not dove hunting it, considering the size of that buck I saw last month.
get in there, put in the food plot, and stay the heck out, only hunting when the wind is right. That old collapsed barn makes for a pretty good blind. Killed a ton of deer using the hay loft to set in before it went down.
LOL, beginners luck I'm sure, I never got to see any score card so I'm thinking you're just trying give me the big head
Going to try the flu flu's over the mojo's, this should make it a little easier. Sunday afternoon we drove into the field SW of you where there is that small pond of W's, it was about 2/3's dried up, birds everywhere, including the hedgerow that runs between us. We won't hunt it since you're hunting the "big one", have other places. Yes the doves do stick around there, would make a good December hunt.
dennishoddy
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Yep, I was thinking we could just walk through the woods, and shoot them flying through the hedge trees. It would be just like hunting single quail after the flush....as if there were any more quail....
Last year, the one covey that stays in there was down to 5 birds so when they got up we just waved good bye.
Last year, the one covey that stays in there was down to 5 birds so when they got up we just waved good bye.
Iggie
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Just an FYI. I went by Wal-Mart to check on shotgun shells and found Federal 7 1/2 shot and Winchester 8 shot (12 Gauge) for $20.97 per 100. Nice to see that not all ammo is going crazy.....so I bought 500
500 should get you 1 or 2 birds.
Most of my dove die by heart attack.....not lead poisoning
Old age
Iggie
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Sounds like my clay practice, I couldn't hit anything... then I tossed one up smashed it with the butt of my empty shotgun. So I may have better luck thowing my gun at them.
or the empty hulls
Wildcat
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Mine usually die of laughter...
Jeff T.
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At least you get to see them die. I usually just get to see them fly away.
Jeremy Haynes
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Dove hunting is easily one of my favorite types of hunting. Sadly i don't have much for prospects on hunting locations this year.
