Texan_Til_I_Die Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 ...before the hurricane hits! Might be my last chance for awhile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Re: Off to blast some doves... Good luck Texan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Re: Off to blast some doves... Good luck. I imagine that hurricane will really blow some of them off course in the migration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted September 26, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Re: Off to blast some doves... Well, the trip last Thursday was a bust. We saw very few birds. Since the hurricane fizzled in my part of the state, I decided to go ahead and make the 200 mile trip to the deer lease over the weekend. It was a dove slaughter!!!! The rancher had his annual "invite the bankers and lawyers" day on Saturday. They started showing up around 3:30 and about 4:30 the birds started flying. We started out hunting a 200 acre sunflower field that had just been plowed. The birds would come swooping in over a treeline, fly through a barrage of shotgun blasts, and land out in the plowed field and go to feeding. I watched everybody shoot for awhile from a shady spot in my jeep. It was pretty obvious that a lot of those boys didn't get out too often. Of the 2000 or so birds that flew in, I'd say about 1950 of them landed safely. About 6:00, I headed over to a pond that was a couple of miles north of the field. There were several banker/lawyer types already there. I asked them how it was going, and they said they'd only seen 5 or 6 doves. I told them to get ready, because they were about to be overrun with birds. I could tell they didn't really believe me, but I went over to the other side of the pond and set up about 150 yards from the water where I'd have a good seat for the show! Between 6:00 and 6:30, not much happened, but then it was like you flipped a switch and the skies filled up! They were coming in groups of 5 to 20 birds and there was no way to keep your shotgun loaded and the birds picked up! I had my 15 bird limit in about 30 minutes, and most of that time was spent looking for dead ones. If it were legal, and I had a good enough retreiver, I could have easily killed a hundred doves in an hour! Definitely the best shoot I've had this year. You can bet that I'll be heading back out there next weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Re: Off to blast some doves... [ QUOTE ] They were coming in groups of 5 to 20 birds and there was no way to keep your shotgun loaded and the birds picked up! I had my 15 bird limit in about 30 minutes, and most of that time was spent looking for dead ones. [/ QUOTE ] Lord knows I love it when that happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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