Dove Field Rotation Ideas?
- Thread starter John Paul
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I’m not sure. I have a silage chopper but figured I’d just mow strips.
Oh man. If you need any help killing off the hoards of dove let me know. That looks incredible. My German millet should be ripe about now. Heading to the farm tomorrow to bush hog.
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Doves are birds. They have wings. They can fly away whenever they want. Some of the things I do for doves. Five acres of wheat I keep sprayed after maturity for doves to feed in all summer. Three feeders with corn or sunflower seeds. Spread 100 lbs sunflower seeds - every week - on bare dirt Jun -Aug 15. Five acres browntop millet. We can legally top sow up to 240 lbs wheat seed per acre on disked ground beginning 15 Aug which I have done on five acres. I have probably spent nearly $2000 on seed/feed this year for doves. Probably $250 on herbicide. Plus labor. Had a fair many doves around mid July and they slowly started leaving. Not a single dove left to hunt - not one. 1000 lbs of wheat seed on five acres and five acres mowed browntop millet. Not one dove.
catscratch
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Dang man, that sucks! I'm hoping when they left your place they came to ours. I'll know tomorrow...
I am not a big dove hunter and have probably killed less than 20 in my lifetime but on our old Home farm (can’t call it Home 10 and longer as it has tripled in size) I have been dozing trees and clearing brush for the cattle operation. I have a lot of bare dirt so I scattered various plot seeds right on top as it was just dust after being pounded by the dozer. We had no rain whatsoever on it in the 2 weeks it was seeded so yesterday I took a new side x side double 12 gauge I bought about 6 months ago and had only fired twice out there. I killed the first 2 doves I saw on a double and I got 3 doubles and a single for the day. Altogether I shot 11 shots...pretty slow hunting and it rained an inch over the past 24 hours so I don’t know how that will change things.
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catscratch
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We limited out at 8:00am this morning (6 of us). Was a great hunt!
swat1018
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7 of us cleaned 97 last night, me and the farmer's son went back and killed 30 this morning. 60 ac production sunflower field that had about 15-20 acres of drown out spots that they mowed last week. It's an organic sunflower field, so there are lots of other weed seed. An epic hunt for central Indiana. Really enjoyed taking the farmer's son on his first ever hunting experience. I told them it was akin to a football player playing in the super bowl his first game, that field was crazy good.
