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Re: Dove hunting
[Re: Arkansas87]
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07/30/20 10:51 AM
07/30/20 10:51 AM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,950 2A Sanctuaries-W. OK & N. NM
Blaine County
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,950
2A Sanctuaries-W. OK & N. NM
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Oh I didn't know if yall prepped fields for them. I do a dove field for me and my family and friends to hunt every year. This year I'm gonna do another field so we can alternate hunts and not pressure the birds so much and be able to hunt them farther into the season. It's an older field that nobody has done anything with in a long time.grown up real bad with saplings and stuff. Bush hawged it down yesterday and will spray it this weekend. Got my other field sprayed last weekend so it should be ready to burn in another week or so. I like to spray the field to kill everything and dry it out good then burn it off. Then top sow winter wheat about a week before the opener and boy the birds will be on it thick! We used to plant millet in the spring and let it grow till mature at the end of summer then spray and burn but over the years I have found that if you just let a field grow up with weeds and such all summer then spray and burn there are all kinds of seeds in those weeds that dove like just as much as the millet. Then you don't haveto plant anything in the spring.so now we just burn off the weeds and top sow winter wheat (which is leagal in arkansas) and have awsome hunts over it. Sounds fun. For fields, we just hunt wheat stubble (one pass with a disk seems to be best). My favorite is water holes and windmills.
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Re: Dove hunting
[Re: Arkansas87]
#6948628
07/31/20 01:14 AM
07/31/20 01:14 AM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,337 The Hill Country of Texas
Leftlane
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"HOSS"
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 20,337
The Hill Country of Texas
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Growing up one of my best freinds dad was a dairy man. When the season opening in kansas- he was about a week into chopping silage.
I guess you could say he got a field ready- about 3 of the 40 or 50 acres each. Next door was a section of grass (pasture for a cow calf operation) and a pond. You'd shoot doves and then eat them so you could shot more tomorrow and not exceed your possession limit til you got tired of walking and then ya could go about every 3rd night, turn a 5 gal bucket over halfway to the pond and shoot up about another 75 rounds LOL
If I was to shoot dove on a 10 acre "field" IDK if even half of em would die on the 10 acres- it would take all evening to get my limit LOL- heck my shoulder might git sore
“What’s good for me may not be good for the weak minded.” Captain Gus McCrae- Texas Rangers
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