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Its like Christmas!!! I have hundreds of shells ready!!! Hey, you never know.... | |||
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Did any of them charge?  xxxxxxxxxx When considering US based operations of guides/outfitters, check and see if they are NRA members. If not, why support someone who doesn't support us? Consider spending your money elsewhere. NEVER, EVER book a hunt with BLAIR WORLDWIDE HUNTING or JEFF BLAIR. I have come to understand that in hunting, the goal is not the goal but the process. | |||
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Tomorrow at noon we go amongst them in West Tennessee. Ten acres of millet. We spend tonight in the clubhouse. There'll be a BBQ after the hunt. I'll take a couple guns. Model 12 heavy magnum duck gun. It only gets used for doves these days because of the full choke. And an A.H. Fox double built in the '20s. I use those promo loads from Bass Pro, the Win Texas Heavies. My favorite is 1 1/8 oz of 7 1/2. It's the right medicine. ..it's all just like old times...and brings back lots of memories...especially of all the guys I used to do this with who're no longer with us. This one's for them... | |||
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I can only hope the storm we had today with heavy rain didn't push the doves out. 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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The field was as well prepared as it gets and the afternoon weather was perfect. And so was the club dinner. But the doves forgot they were invited. They just weren't there in the numbers it takes. Even excellent shooters were doing good to get two or three. We don't know if they came and went before the season. I've seen that happen. Or, if it was hurricane Issac related. But, otherwise a great time was had by all. And we'll try it again tomorrow. | |||
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We got them...... It got western.......... then we drove to austin to see UT win....... NO pictures will be fortcoming...  | |||
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We had a few hunters on some of the bosses properties on Saturday some were doing good and others were getting sporadic shooting. the boss and I and another friend are going to try them this afternoon. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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After dark last night I had an interesting drive home from the hunt. Maybe the tailwinds of Issac or something. Wildest storm I've ever tried driving thru. Started when I left the clubhouse. Lucky to even make it. Real high winds. And 50 miles of hardly seeing the road except by lightning flashes and flooded roads almost too deep for the car. The dove field will have gotten a dose of that too. The good news is, it'll damp down some of the hay fever traditionally suffered by opening weekend shooters. That has always been the price you pay for going this time of year. I doubt last night's blow pushed more birds in, but as with other kinds of hunting, there's only one way to find out. And that I guess is why we call it a dove hunt instead of dove shoot. | |||
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Here in Georgia most folks I talked to had a poor shoot. I went to our SCI chapter's shoot about 2 hours north of Atlanta. Maybe 60 folks showed up and no one I talked to killed more than 3-4 birds. It's been that way here in Georgia for several years now. Every year, some people report a good shoot but the majority try to put a positive spin on things by saying it was tasty BBQ, nice to see old friends, always better to be out in the field than at work, and so forth. Back in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties we had good shoots. Most birds here are local on opening day, and I can remember taking my sons when they were young and all of us came home with birds. Yesterday I sat in a field for 4 hours and expended 5 shells on three birds--two were high and I shouldn't have even tried; the third was in range but age and reflexes must have caught up with me. 0 for 5, a 4-hour round-trip and no dove dinner. I would be interested to hear how other folks did. LTC, USA, RET Benefactor Life Member, NRA Member, SCI & DSC Proud son of Texas A&M, Class of 1969 "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning | |||
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Heading out tomorrow for my 1st outing of the season. Hunting farm fields between Tucson and Casa Grande. Bird numbers are insane in the area, both mourning and whitewings. We'll see if they still are after this opening weekend has passed. | |||
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Well, we just don't have the birds in this part of W. Tenn. I went again yesterday afternoon and we had only a handful on the whole place and no movement until the last couple hours of daylight. I think these were a few local birds only and mostly immature. The question is why. Educated guess is, not Issac related, but breeding was down because of drought. That could be wrong, but it's my best guess. I only got one and if I had by some stroke of luck made every shot possible, could have had 3 to 4. I did learn one useful thing. Which I guess I already knew. Yesterday I took two guns. A Rem 11-87 with full choke and an old Fox double with open chokes. One is a proven dove getter and the other is not. I'm sure you know which is which. The high point of the evening was seeing Mother Nature put on another fireworks display after dark. Two hours of constant widespread lightning. Much of it awe inspiring. Half the sky was thunderstorms and half clear with stars like you only see in the country. And the waters of our lake shimmering with moonlight. Anyway, this time I watched the show in the heavens from the clubhouse instead of trying to drive in it. | |||
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Are you all seeing any of the Eurasian Collared Doves out there. They have spread across most of Texas. Even the rocks don't last forever. | |||
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I saw 2 Collared doves yesterday here in Georgia, got one of them. | |||
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Hunted pecan groves east of El Paso this weekend. Ratio 8:1 Eurasian doves. They don't count towards your limit so out of 30 opening day I had 4 white wings. Lots of birds out this way. Had game warden out the morning of opening day checking everyone's license. Nice guy joked around a bit then left. | |||
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7 of us killed about 200 in two days of shooting in eastern Colorado for the opener - One of my spots was way down in numbers, and the other was the best I've ever seen. We hunt creek bottoms between water and food, and I too was worried that the numbers would be way down because of record drought conditions, but I guess being in close proximity to water and food really concentrated the birds for us. A great time was had by all! E dawg | |||
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We had a great shoot. I got 11. Probably could have gotten my limit easily, but my 6yr old son decided I had shot enough and it was his turn. Nothing fell to his Red Ryder, but he sure expended some BBs. 30+ years experience tells me that perfection hit at .264. Others are adequate but anything before or after is wishful thinking. | |||
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[/QUOTE]We had a great shoot. I got 11. Probably could have gotten my limit easily, but my 6yr old son decided I had shot enough and it was his turn. Nothing fell to his Red Ryder, but he sure expended some BBs.[/QUOTE] Adamhunter: Where were you hunting? I want to be there next year! LTC, USA, RET Benefactor Life Member, NRA Member, SCI & DSC Proud son of Texas A&M, Class of 1969 "A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" Robert Browning | |||
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MANAGED TO FIND THE ONLY WET SPOT IN ALL OF TEXAS OPENING MORNING, DID OK AFTER RESCUING MY TRUCK.    | |||
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