Anyone dove hunting?
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09/15/21 08:44 PM
09/15/21 08:44 PM
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Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,937 SW Georgia
Wanna Be
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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.
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Re: Anyone dove hunting?
[Re: SJA]
#7356839
09/16/21 07:00 AM
09/16/21 07:00 AM
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Providence Farm
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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.
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Re: Anyone dove hunting?
[Re: west river rogue]
#7356859
09/16/21 07:44 AM
09/16/21 07:44 AM
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Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,937 SW Georgia
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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. 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.
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Re: Anyone dove hunting?
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7356869
09/16/21 07:58 AM
09/16/21 07:58 AM
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Posts: 2,142 NC - Here there and everywhere
coondagger2
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NC - Here there and everywhere
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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...
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Re: Anyone dove hunting?
[Re: Wanna Be]
#7356871
09/16/21 08:01 AM
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
Everything the left touches it destroys
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Re: Anyone dove hunting?
[Re: Rat_Pack]
#7356892
09/16/21 08:25 AM
09/16/21 08:25 AM
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Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 10,687 Philippines, s.e. asia,ohio
west river rogue
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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. Whoever told you that is out this morning sitting in your blind Good,they can have it! and take all my blindless with it.
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Re: Anyone dove hunting?
[Re: Killbuck]
#7356940
09/16/21 09:51 AM
09/16/21 09:51 AM
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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
09/16/21 10:13 AM
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Posts: 10,937 SW Georgia
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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 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!
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