Thread: dove season is here....

Originally Posted by Iamfishing

Dove shooting for me is either I am on or I am not. I went this past Saturday and shot 12 birds, the limit, with 20 shells. One of my on days. I like to dove hunt as it gets me going for the up coming hunting season and allows me to get my lab out for some work. We hunt a small field with four of five guys. Its a great time for renewing the hunting spirit and getting to shoot your shotgun that's been in the case for several months. If you have a field to get on I highly recommend it.

That's some mightly fine shootin right there!

question: do any of you guys have any good spots to hunt quail in the wild - we use to have plenty of birds - now farm raised birds and preserve hunting is all about we got now

Originally Posted by crap-king

question: do any of you guys have any good spots to hunt quail in the wild - we use to have plenty of birds - now farm raised birds and preserve hunting is all about we got now

As much time as I spend in the woods, that's something I don't see too often.

fire ants and coyotes really hurt the quail population.

Originally Posted by crap-king

question: do any of you guys have any good spots to hunt quail in the wild - we use to have plenty of birds - now farm raised birds and preserve hunting is all about we got now

I use to have a liver & white pointer & I swear , he was the best dog I had /have ever seen!! I could hunt ANYWHERE around my house on ANYBODYS land without even asking , small soybean fields were my favorite in the evenings after school . On the weekends I would Hunt Game managment roads , take the door off my CJ7 & turn him loose , we only hunted coveys & never went after the singles when hunting the gravel roads . Then when deer started get find there way around my house. farm land was leased out & no more hunting anywhere you wanted , and now, the small bean fields are planted pines ..... back to my Dog, his name was BOB & once after shooting a covey rise we went to hunt singles, he jumped a log & I SWEAR he pointed in MID AIR !!! once he hit the ground he slide to a stop with pine straw pushed up almost over his head !! I sure do miss him, he got gone while hunting one evening & we never found him till the next year, his bones were locked down on the bones of 14 quail !!POOR soul would not break a point to save his own life !! hehhehe

i am looking forward to the 15th we are going to get to shoot our field. done to much fishing in the spring of the year so we are a little late maybe it will be cooler by then.we cook shoot the breeze tell lies and all of that good stuff. dove season kicks the hunting and fishing season for us . as far as the amber drinks that comes after.

"...I went this past Saturday and shot 12 birds, the limit, with 20 shells..."

I think the average is three shots per bird, so you did well!!

Originally Posted by Wyliecat

"...I went this past Saturday and shot 12 birds, the limit, with 20 shells..."

I think the average is three shots per bird, so you did well!!

Yeah that was good shooting for me. I went back on Monday and shot 6 birds with 25 shells. Thats more to my average. My shooting eye had gone to the off mode from Saturday. Still had a good time as my grandson went with me on Monday. He also shot 6 so we a had a mess between us.

rafdaddy give me a call today and said he had me some doves if i still wanted em and i said sure do . the wife stopped by and picked em up on her home from work and lo and behold she had a zip loc with about a dozen of the prettiest dove breasts a man could possible ask for. i got em marinating now and will grill em tomorrow with some chicken i plan on grillin........

When does the season go out and come back in?