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Anyone dove hunting? #7356612
09/15/21 08:44 PM
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Our season opened Sept. 4 and we’ve already had about five shoots so far. Opening day was good, but Labor Day was better. We’ve tried a couple morning hunts but the birds just wouldn’t come in in the numbers we wanted. Afternoons have been really good.
Got a call last night about a shoot for this morning. I wasn’t feeling the best and when I woke up I thought of skipping the shoot and even calling in to work. I decided the heck with it, I can lay in bed feeling miserable or be miserable watching the sunrise and possibly killing a few dove.
It started out like a typical early season morning shoot…very little activity. But, at about 0730 the floodgates opened and it turned out to be one of the finest shoots of the year so far. Got a newfound respect for GW. Was shooting the next tire down on the pivot from one and one of our regional biologists. The GW and I limited out about the same time and spent the rest of the hunt ragging the biologist who I already knew every time he missed, lol.
Out of 8 hunters, 5 of us limited and the others were fairly close when the landowner called the hunt. Got a couple more shoots this weekend seeing how this rain should halt peanut harvesting. Corn, sunflowers, and millet fields all burned is the ticket right now.

Side note…some farmer apparently had a mishap and dumped about 1000# of grain sorghum on the side of the road. Me being the thoughtful person I am, filled up 10 empty 50# corn bags I had and 4 5gal buckets. Someone else apparently had more useful equipment, because when I went back today a tracked vehicle had been there with a scoop.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356664
09/15/21 09:38 PM
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Michigan does not have a dove season.


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Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Getting There] #7356669
09/15/21 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Getting There
Michigan does not have a dove season.

Neither does New Jersey.


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Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356679
09/15/21 09:54 PM
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I went to 2 shoots so far. Opening day was good but I was on the wrong side of the field. The following day I got my limit on an afternoon shoot. Haven’t been able to find any birds since then. Hope to get on a few more good shoots before season goes out.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356695
09/15/21 10:11 PM
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Our opening day was September 4
We had a decent hunt
Brought home 48

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356733
09/15/21 10:47 PM
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48? . . . what is your Daily limit and Possession limit?


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Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: SJA] #7356831
09/16/21 06:46 AM
09/16/21 06:46 AM
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I’ve been out a few times, still to many crops on for a good hunt though. Still fun to get out.

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Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: SJA] #7356839
09/16/21 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by SJA
48? . . . what is your Daily limit and Possession limit?



You asked the wrong question. The correct one would be out of many people. That way it could look like you want to know how each person did instead of look like the Game warden. Limits are 15 in every state I know of.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356855
09/16/21 07:40 AM
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Philippines, s.e. asia,ohio
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nah,use to hunt them yrs ago and steam over butter basting now n then. No desire to hunt birds anymore. Goes with age im told.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: west river rogue] #7356859
09/16/21 07:44 AM
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Originally Posted by west river rogue
nah,use to hunt them yrs ago and steam over butter basting now n then. No desire to hunt birds anymore. Goes with age im told.

I’ve found the older I get the more I’ll choose bird hunting over deer hunting. Georgia is blessed with a long bird season. We have a month and a half early season then a week around Thanksgiving then it opens back up around the middle of Dec until the end of January.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356861
09/16/21 07:48 AM
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I love dove hunting but don't have a place where they are flying. I was going to plant an acre or 2 of sunflowers and try that out this year but time got away from me. There is a public ground I was told about that has good fields but their planting did not come up this year.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: west river rogue] #7356865
09/16/21 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by west river rogue
nah,use to hunt them yrs ago and steam over butter basting now n then. No desire to hunt birds anymore. Goes with age im told.

Whoever told you that is out this morning sitting in your blind wink

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356869
09/16/21 07:58 AM
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Dove hunting is one of my favorite things because of the comradery. We had a big fish fry opening day for lunch, it was a good time. Between opening day and labor day we took close to 500 doves


Gotta live up to the nickname...
Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356871
09/16/21 08:01 AM
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Went with the boys once to see how my middle son was coming along with his dog. Had a great hunt but was more impressed with what he has done with the dog. He really has her tooled up. She has so much energy I was doubtful he’d be able to control her since he’s never finished a dog out by himself. Very proud of him!

I haven’t seen dove this thick since I was a kid. Groups of 10-30 one right after the other


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Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356881
09/16/21 08:09 AM
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Considered song birds in CT, no season.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Rat_Pack] #7356892
09/16/21 08:25 AM
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Philippines, s.e. asia,ohio
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Originally Posted by Rat_Pack
Originally Posted by west river rogue
nah,use to hunt them yrs ago and steam over butter basting now n then. No desire to hunt birds anymore. Goes with age im told.

Whoever told you that is out this morning sitting in your blind wink

Good,they can have it! whistle and take all my blindless with it.

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356937
09/16/21 09:44 AM
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My son went out last week in Ohio and killed a Banded dove!

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Killbuck] #7356940
09/16/21 09:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Killbuck
My son went out last week in Ohio and killed a Banded dove!


Did it show where the bird had been banded?


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Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: coondagger2] #7356959
09/16/21 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by coondagger2
Dove hunting is one of my favorite things because of the comradery. We had a big fish fry opening day for lunch, it was a good time. Between opening day and labor day we took close to 500 doves

Yea sir!! Our upcoming Saturday afternoon hunt will be preceded by a BBQ lunch. Always fun talking before the hunts then the ribbing after the hunts. My youngest said he loves “burd” hunting because he doesn’t have to be still or quiet, lol!

Re: Anyone dove hunting? [Re: Wanna Be] #7356987
09/16/21 10:48 AM
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I enjoy dove hunting myself. I normally have a much better season that I currently am, but time has been lacking. I normally have a couple good hunts in the public plots, but on a 14k acre wildlife area, I believe there was maybe one 2ac sunflower plot that made anything....and it got hammered. We normally have multiple guys keeping an eye out for private fields to hunt, but this year has been a struggle. Seems like everyone in our group has been busy and the bird numbers so far have been low. We found a field sunday evening while scouting that was loaded and when we returned Monday evening, we saw maybe 12. It was such a bummer. Here today, Gone tomorrow...........

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