New favorite type of hunting

I tried dove hunting out today and I loved it so much, I bought 2 mojos and 4 regular decoys, and in 1 hour of hunting, I got 7 doves. The little 28 gauge Tri-Star I got last year for pheasants was dropping birds at a decent distance. My friend on the other hand hit a dove at 30+ yards away with his 12 gauge and that was awesome to watch. Overall a good experience and will be going back out Sunday because I don't have time for the next few days otherwise I would be out every evening. Thanks for reading!

-TheYouthTrapper

Fun to hunt and good eating too !!

Nice !

Wrap the breasts in bacon and grill.

sounds like a good day where are the pic?

Nothing like shooting dinner on the wing, sounds like you had a great time. 28 g. Is fun to shoot and won't wear you out

Good eating

Good deal!

You might want to try and sneak out b4 Sunday. There is a cold front coming Fri/Sat that will likely move them south over night. They disappear fast in my experience. Might be another batch coming through after this one moves on though. If it warms up they hang around, if it’s cool they just keep going south.

A while back seemed like the only shells available here was 28 ga.

Last time I went dove hunting there was 3 of us. One guy shot 2 with one shot as they crossed. I thought that had to be a one in a million chance and then not 10 minutes later I did the same thing.

A quick 1hour and 1/2 hunt me and my oldest son had Monday in between rain showers at the house .

Was either one the one you were aiming at ?
Or, maybe the were ... uh, no. They do that in the spring

Just funnin', I've had that happen too.

Dang ! That looks like pert near 50 birds ....NICE !
(I guess the other pickup is full of all the other hulls )
Nice !

I love some dove hunting too! We shot an even 50 here opening morning. Fried catfish for lunch and invited everyone's family over. A yearly tradition I won't miss for anything!

Good job! Bird hunting is fun!

I go out two or three times a week. Hunting a mowed sweet corn patch tonight.

Yep, need to do that but haven't had time to get around to it.

Hard to take pics when you're shooting birds, will try next time to get a cam on the end of the barrel.

Mine likes to buck quite a bit but I'll get used to it soon.

Was busy tonight packing for the convention and got school tomorrow and right to the convention after that and will be there all day Saturday, so Sunday is my only shot right now. It still seems to be pretty warm the next few days.

I haven't had any trouble finding shells of anything but that's just me. I hope I can get better at shooting took me 6 shells to take down the first bird.

Nice!

Another good haul!

I wish my German Shepherd would be a little calmer, so I could teach her to retrieve birds but I'm working on it.

For only 14 you have some serious money. Every time you post you’ve bought something. What do you do for a living besides school?

How do you guys hunt doves? I hunted them one time
On a sunflower field but I haven’t seen one near me in a few years.
What type of field and how do you decoy them in?

Very cool, there is no dove season in Michigan

This is my first year but right now I'm on a wheat stubble field where they baled straw and I'm sitting against the bales with 2 mojos and 4 regular decoys out about 30-40 yards with my back against the bales. They have tried landing in the decoys multiple times and have also succeeded multiple times.

You're missing out for sure.

Odd jobs, My dad helped me afford quite a bit before I got started working but for the last 3 years, I have been doing odd jobs during the late spring to early fall and have made a lot of money doing it. About 25$ an hour or sometimes up to 50$ an hour mowing yards. During the first year of covid when we had 6 months of summer, I probably made over 3 grand. Last year was a bad year for me and I only made around 200$ since we had no rain which meant no lawns growing and people could upkeep themselves. This year was a pretty average year for me making a little more than 1 grand but buying my own gas, traps, etc has dropped that money down quite a bit. I still have yards that I'm mowing every week to two weeks and still waiting for leaves to drop then the money really starts rolling in since no one wants to deal with them. Hopefully this explains it all, if you have anymore questions I'm willing to answer them.

Hunted them a lot outside of Ellendale ND. In the 80's

Lots of fun

good to see a young man that's is willing to work , I mowed a lawn a day when I was young guy, i always had money

I like to work and feel weird not working, I need to get more jobs though before winter.