Dove Season

JohnP · August 13, 2010, 02:56:04 PM

With dove season right around the corner I thought I had better take a count of my shotgun shells. I have 650 20ga shells and 250 28ga shells. I figure that may get me through the first day. I normally start the first season with the 28 and then about half way through switch to the 20. I start the second season with the 16 and about halfway through switch to the 12. For the first time in many years our first season will again be a day long hunt. What I like about that is I can call in the AM and hunt dove in the PM. Looking forward to this years hunting season, have a deer tag, an elk tag and the LBL to look forward to.

Bills Custom Calls · August 13, 2010, 03:18:09 PM

Sound good John just don't over do it

Don't forget the bobcats and lions you will be trying for also

Mallardsr · August 13, 2010, 04:23:28 PM

JohnP, you got it bad (the bug) and makin mine even worse. It is so blasted hot I cant stand it! Come on cool weather before I go nuts!

Yotehntr · August 13, 2010, 04:24:09 PM

I haven't been to a good dove shoot in many years. Seems folks around here will have a "pay hunt"... and no doves to shoot at.

Jimmie in Ky · August 13, 2010, 05:51:37 PM

I was thinking of doves myself this morning as I walked through what was left of the sweetcorn patch and indian corn.Thanks to heat and dry weather the indian corn was a bust. Enough there for next years seed but that is it.

Mowing right now would be hte thing to do . As long as it is standard farm practice it isn't baiting. All that foxtail standing there just begs to be put down

Not to mention all those sweetcorn nubbins :biggrin:Jimmie

FinsnFur · August 13, 2010, 06:44:59 PM

Yeah, make sure ya dont over do it and lay yourself up.
Cause then you'll be stuck in the house and reading / listening to us all day.

alscalls · August 13, 2010, 08:25:38 PM

I miss northern Ohio's dove season...... sunflowers and all day shooting..... Down here we are hard pressed to find a place to shoot a full box in a day....

pitw · August 13, 2010, 08:38:15 PM

Enjoy the {L} out of them John[and the rest of you guys] cause I ain't never shot one

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HaMeR · August 14, 2010, 07:43:58 AM

The doves just haven't been around my fields in any numbers the last 6-7 years here. Diane puts the breasts in the crock pot with a ton of veggies & makes a stew from it. MMM MMMM GOOD!!

JohnP · August 14, 2010, 12:01:26 PM

Quote from: FinsnFur on August 13, 2010, 06:44:59 PM
Yeah, make sure ya dont over do it and lay yourself up.
Cause then you'll be stuck in the house and reading / listening to us all day.

On the doctors advice I have yet to put on a pair of boots. I have an appointment this coming Monday and I will ask him about it, if he says no then I'll continue with his advice, still doing the theraphy thing and down to one alcoholic drink a day sometimes two. I have been following their orders this time around and it seems to be working - strange.

I would hate to be stuck in the house reading this BS all day long.

nastygunz · August 14, 2010, 01:17:09 PM

We have quite a few doves but we cant hunt em...but pigeons make a good substitute, no season, no limit and quite a few of them also: