Any dove hunters?

[catscratch]

GREAT hunt this morning! Both kids ran out of shells, barrels got hot, little one got his first solo shotgun kill, big one got multiple doubles with his double barrel. He even got two with one shot. 39 bird in 30 minutes!

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[catscratch]

Guess what this is

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[lakngolf]

Fantastic. Know that was a lot of fun.

 

[catscratch]

Slow morning, but better than the other options!

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[OkieKubota]

You guys are piling them up. I am getting ready to go do some work on our lease but had to stop by home 10 to get our camper. I am sitting on our plots but so far only deer and skeeters moving...

 

[catscratch]

You guys are piling them up. I am getting ready to go do some work on our lease but had to stop by home 10 to get our camper. I am sitting on our plots but so far only deer and skeeters moving...

I don't know if we had a bunch migrate south, or if we just burned out our field. Either way not many around yesterday. Have too much work to do today to get after then (won't hurt the field to give it a break anyway), might get another hunt in next Sunday.

Good luck! Maybe the birds that left our place will show up at yours this morning.

 

[DocHolladay]

5 of us today at my boss' field. Had more fun watching my friends 17 year old and the boss' 13 year old shoot doves than I did shooting them. Everyone got their limit. We also shot Saturday afternoon with more people and ended up with 133 birds total. Might have one more hunt in, but he hasn't said yet. Not a lot of birds flying, like last year.

I will say; when you wrap them in bacon, by the time the bacon is done, the breast are over cooked. Try starting the bacon first, then cooking the dove and wrapping them in the bacon right at the end. Birds are cooked just right and the bacon gets done too.

 

[Turkey Creek]

We got our annual dove hunt in last night. My two brothers and a friend. I think we ended up with 51 birds in a 2 hr hunt over one of our farm ponds. If we would have shot better it would have been easy limits! As always I and my buddy started out not shooting so well and steadily improved as the night went on, my brothers started out shooting lights out and then got too cocky and went down the toilet!

 

[OkieKubota]

You guys are tearing them up. I could only imagine getting into doves like that. At most I have seen about 15 doves in a day!

The few that were using our plots moved on I guess. I sat for a couple hours Saturday morning and only saw 3 birds with no shots offered...don't know if I will have anymore chances to go

 

[Turkey Creek]

You guys are tearing them up. I could only imagine getting into doves like that. At most I have seen about 15 doves in a day!

The few that were using our plots moved on I guess. I sat for a couple hours Saturday morning and only saw 3 birds with no shots offered...don't know if I will have anymore chances to go

Sound like you need to make a road trip to KS or NE next year!

 

[OkieKubota]

Sound like you need to make a road trip to KS or NE next year!

Can't see myself actually spending money on gas or out of state license just to shoot at doves... I only hunt them when I have to be at the other property doing something else already...I am weird like that...wouldn't walk across the road to shoot a bear and definitely wouldn't buy the license for $100 here in OK to do so. Not going to travel to shoot hogs but would travel some to shoot Javelina with my stickbow. Might go on an out of state elk hunt if offered the chance and for sure would like to get a moose but Mule deer and pronghorn do nothing for me... Caribou shows me with some interest but too far...I would travel for nice sized whitetail deer but fortunately don't have to...

 

[catscratch]

That's what I was thinking. Come up next yr for opening weekend. We usually have a morning hunt and then a big breakfast afterwards. Lots of fun.

 

[OkieKubota]

That's what I was thinking. Come up next yr for opening weekend. We usually have a morning hunt and then a big breakfast afterwards. Lots of fun.

That sounds real nice...hard to get away for me though at that time of year. Tractor has to keep moving in September it seems or folks get unhappy

 

[John Paul]

We killed 275 dove on our two fields on the opener. Most guys shot their limits or should have. Everyone was out of our big field by 4:30 and we watched another 400 to 500 dove come in which was nice to see. Had a buddy go out the next day and kill his limit on our small field. The clearfield sunflowers are doing their job so to speak.

 

[OkieKubota]

We killed 275 dove on our two fields on the opener. Most guys shot their limits or should have. Everyone was out of our big field by 4:30 and we watched another 400 to 500 dove come in which was nice to see. Had a buddy go out the next day and kill his limit on our small field. The clearfield sunflowers are doing their job so to speak.

That's hardcore! I could only dream of seeing doves in those numbers...sounds like the days of the passenger pigeon!

 

[OkieKubota]

Well I have to go mow our yard (3+ acres) on Home 10 after work with our riding mower but I did throw my 20 gauge in the truck so maybe I will see a few while I am there. Don't really have a lot of time to mess with them though because it will be after dark before I can finish it up

 

[Flyfixer]

I had a hunt Saturday morning and it was a slow morning, I shot 14 shells, killed 5 and lost 2 I had a good field with milo and sunflowers that I brush hogged down and had sown wheat on disced up strips. The year before last I had the 15 bird limit in a little over an hour on the same field prepared the same way. To add insult to injury when I got back to the house there were a bunch of doves on the power line across from my driveway!

 

[OkieKubota]

I ended up seeing 8 from the seat of my lawnmower through the dust cloud I was making

 

[cutman]

I love dove hunting, but it's been years since we had many on the property. I shot them in Argentina once...110 boxes of shells in 3.5 days. For any of you dove hunting fanatics, save up for a trip to Argentina. Trust me.

 

[JFK52]

I shoot just enough every year to make one meal for myself and my wife. Last year it was 12 birds. I realize that breasting the bird is the easiest way to get the prime meat off it. I take the time and clean the entire bird and save the hearts also. I just think it makes for a nicer presentation of the bird when it is cooked. There is not a whole lot of meat on the rest of the bird once the breast is eaten.