Got Dove

[dennishoddy]

Found a couple places this evening with a few birds.

I didn't see much at all. Maybe a dozen birds on a field that had been worked a couple months ago and has a good volunteer crabgrass crop.
They aren't coming to ponds. Early summer they got real dry and stayed that way, with weeds growing into the bare banks. Now with the recent rains, the ponds are full with weeds in the water. Dove need bare banks.

 

[steelfingers]

Have a chance to go the first day of the season but not sure I'm going. I've seen some birds but not like back in the day. Maybe the weather has changed or the crops have changed. I don't know
Quail even worse. Never had to walk much of a fence line and get a few when I was a kid. Those days are gone.
I've always hunted doves and quail with a 20 gauge or 410 because that's what we had. Never used a 12 for dove and as far as the shot, whatever was on sale. (Ha. Even then)

 

[dennishoddy]

Have a chance to go the first day of the season but not sure I'm going. I've seen some birds but not like back in the day. Maybe the weather has changed or the crops have changed. I don't know
Quail even worse. Never had to walk much of a fence line and get a few when I was a kid. Those days are gone.
I've always hunted doves and quail with a 20 gauge or 410 because that's what we had. Never used a 12 for dove and as far as the shot, whatever was on sale. (Ha. Even then)

Oh, I'd go just to celebrate the start of hunting season, but wouldn't expect much. It all depends on what the farmers are planting in the area or what weed crop is growing in fallow fields. They need a food source.
In my area their used to be a one and done wheat crop with stubble fields everywhere that contained heads of wheat until wheat was once again planted in late September to October.
Now it's all about double cropping which moved the corn, beans and milo harvest back into late September.
Saw only one field of milo today in a 100 mile round trip drive that was being harvested.
There is just no food for them. In two to three weeks, it will be dove heaven, but my areas are set up for the deer bow season opener by then, so this year may be a total bust.

 

[dlbleak]

Little slow today. Back at the farm house cooking bacon and taters

 

[Jon3830]

I can hear them all around us but haven't seen any yet.

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[Lakenut]

Have a millet field that just got bailed this past week....so far very few birds. Will give it a go tonight

 

[Okie4570]

Shot his first limit.

 

[okie362]

Shot his first limit.

Nicely done!

 

[DRC458]

Was out walking the dog a little after 8:00 this morning. Probably heard 20 to 30 shots around me in about thirty minutes. They seem to have vacated my neighborhood this morning. I guess they looked at the calendar!

 

[Shadowrider]

Just took a drive in the country. Didn't see a single bird.