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Opening day and it seems unfair that these birds are so challenging to hit at the precise time that we are most “rusty†in our shooting. I finally scratched out a limit of a dozen. A friend and I stood on either side of a fence in order to train the doves not to land on it.  Doc enjoying a sniff of dove - guess I will keep feeding him - at least through duck season.  Little Gus gets his first sniff. Now to teach him to bring them to me. He carried his first one into a big patch of poison ivy. Another time Gus was performing a "reverse retreive" when Doc took the bird away from him and proceeded to show him where it goes while Gus howled for an interference call.  ALLEN W. JOHNSON - DRSS Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. A. E. Housman | ||
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Hi Palmer, Looks like you had a good time. I managed to scrape up a limit of 15 about 2 hours before sundown. That way I got to watch them coming in droves while I cleaned the dead ones. I had a javelina walk up within 15 feet of me to drink and lie in the mud. When he finally figured out I was there (something about the report of a 28 gauge) he started toward me...stopped about 10 feet away & just stood there. He finally left for parts unknown. I'm still wondering about the effectiveness of an ounce and a half (double charge) of #8's at 10 feet on javelinas!   Good hunting, Andy ----------------------------- Thomas Jefferson: “To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” | |||
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Good pics Allen  Let's hope we get plenty of ducks down the flyway this year. DavidGray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I went out with a friend and his boy Cody and some other buddies. It was Cody's first dove hunt and he did good for a rookie. I call this my Route 66 dove hunt part Deux. 32 years ago I went on my first dove hunt near Lindberg Rd. in Bridgeton Mo. This 2007 hunt near Barstow we were about 200 yards from Route 66. Video of the dove opener for us near Barstow CA on a dairy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTOBoG1p15A | |||
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Opening weekend was quite a dud in the usually productive spots in West Central Texas (Rolling Plains). There were almost no good reports. After finding doves virtually absent on an incredibly good-looking, partially shredded sunflower patch for the first day and a half, we didn't even bother to go back out on Sunday afternoon. Maybe later, as they say. But we did hear a lot of quail calling. | |||
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Yep last years honey hole was a bust! Not one bird-so the wifeand I went to a new spot(Her first Hunt) She got one and I got 7 as we got there late in the morning! That night I got 5 more- she didn't get any. Might have to do some searching to find that new honey hole! One shot One Kill | |||
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Nice going, Palmer. Unfortunately, we here in MA are cursed by regulation classifying doves as 'songbirds', so illegal to shoot here.  A buddy has a spread down in MD with sunflowers, though, so next year I'll give it a try. Watching them fly, they look as if they could be tricky to hit consistently...  Cheers, KG ______________________ Hunting: I'd kill to participate. | |||
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I remember reading somewhere the national average per bird harvested was something like 22-23 shells. That's a lot of boxes over an entire season. It is really too bad most of the dove hunting is done around opening week. I've found some of the best dove hunts are typically towards the end of season or late-seasons depending on state regulations. Graybird "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning." | |||
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Congratulations ,here we dont have opening day because all the year is open ,DAVID came in january i promise you a truck full of ducks .Juan www.huntinginargentina.com.ar FULL PROFESSIONAL MEMBER OF IPHA INTERNATIONAL PROFESSIONAL HUNTERS ASOCIATION . DSC PROFESSIONAL MEMBER DRSS--SCI NRA IDPA IPSC-FAT -argentine shooting federation cred number2- | |||
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If I can work around my schedule, I will Juan, but I'm working on bringing a group down in June for sure. David Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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