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Dove hunting #6947276
07/29/20 11:22 PM
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Anyone getting there dove fields ready?

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947476
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Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947487
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What do you mean “ready” this will be my first year dove hunting.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947540
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We don't get anything ready. We just hunt them. Seeing a lot of birds this year.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947596
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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.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947626
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Originally Posted by Arkansas87
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.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947665
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Got a new .410 Rem. 1100 and a case of AA 9's... should be interesting.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947680
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Dove hunting in my opinion is one of the best ways to get a young child interested in hunting. I couldn’t wait every year until the time came.
I have not dove hunted here hardly at all. The game wardens in our county have been so aggressive that it has been almost impossible at times to enjoy the hunt. Maybe it’s different now or at least this next few years. I plan to Dovehunt this next year several times. I’ve really been looking forward to it. I’ve been invited to Several planting Fields pacifically for the dove. Anytime you get a chance to take a child Is a good thing.


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Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6947820
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Yea I'm helping a 16 year old boy work on a field for dove right now as we speek. His parents have about an 80 acre field behind there house they said he could use. We are gonna do about 10 acres of it for dove so him and his friends can shoot it. His first year dove hunting besides walking around trying to find one on a power line lol. Should be fun for them.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6948039
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I was planning on trying to get 5 acres of our field ready but I just can’t find time right now . I started feeding them back 3 weeks ago to get them in here , right now we have around 150 every afternoon feeding . I’m going to try next week to get everything sprayed . I told the kids we would put a limit of 7 per person and cut the hunt off around 6 to let them feed so we could enjoy it a little more than a one time shoot .

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6948262
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I have 2 fields about 5 miles apart with sunflowers in them and about 3 acres around each sunflower field that I keep disc. The sunflowers have a lot of doves in them now hope they stay until season, but if the goat weed get ripe they will leave the sunflowers for the goat weed. I love to watch young kids learn to shoot in a dove field. The game wardens are at my field the first day every year checking licenses and guns. And that is ok but it is awful funny that our county judge has a dove field every year and has never had a game warden check them. It is funny how politics works.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6948265
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Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6948308
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You right about that Savell, Wardens love when you do it. I plant my vegetable crops on photo degradable black plastic mulch so at the end of the crop season all I have to do is disc it in. And there is always some small pieces in the disc ground. 2 years ago I had my sunflowers planted next to this ground, and it was fresh disc a couple days before dove season. I had a new sergeant for the wardens who had never been to my field out in the middle of the disc ground on his hands and knees picking up the plastic to make sure that there was no sunflowers in the disc ground. I laughed my butt of at him, he wanted to write us up so bad for something but he had to leave without issuing any tickets because we were not doing anything wrong.

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6948384
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That's funny right there

Re: Dove hunting [Re: Arkansas87] #6948628
07/31/20 01:14 AM
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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



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