Dove basics?

[hudson]

This thread pisses me off

It's actually inspiring me to take up arms against doves again after several years of not fooling with it. But I suspect I say screw it again when the time comes to sit in the sun for them. Gladly do it for September teal though...

man I'm ready for it myself and to go sit in a tree with my bow on a levee In lacassine

[GadwallGetter530]

What's safflower cost per acre?

Fuck if I know. I never did the math. I really dont even know exactly how big my plots are acre wise. I just know how many 50 pounds bags it takes to plant and what it should look like when I broadcast. Im not a farmer. I just done this long enough to make it work and come out right.

[sws002]

Fuck you! I'm gonna kill a few this year just outa spite.

I'll be sure to post pictures of all those delicious song-birds as they are wrapped in bacon on my grill!

[Rick]

This thread pisses me off

It's actually inspiring me to take up arms against doves again after several years of not fooling with it. But I suspect I say screw it again when the time comes to sit in the sun for them. Gladly do it for September teal though...

man I'm ready for it myself and to go sit in a tree with my bow on a levee In lacassine

Saw a couple surprisingly big bodied deer at marsh's edge this Summer.

[Glimmerjim]

I just read that they increased the limit to 15 this year in CA.

[GadwallGetter530]

I just read that they increased the limit to 15 this year in CA.

Jesus Christ Jim. Do try and keep up.

[gila-river]

I just drive along the canal road in the afternoon, find a dead cottonwood set up a stool and empty my ice chest of beer as I fill it with delicious little doves.

[GadwallGetter530]

I just drive along the canal road in the afternoon, find a dead cottonwood set up a stool and empty my ice chest of beer as I fill it with delicious little doves.

Yay Arizona!

[RickC]

Right at thirty years ago I heard a young Cajun kid give one of our hunters what remains the best dove field stand location advice I've heard, "Go sit by a naked tree."

Doves love hanging up in dead trees to survey the situation before flying down to feed.

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A dead bare tree is a magnet for them.

[gila-river]

I just drive along the canal road in the afternoon, find a dead cottonwood set up a stool and empty my ice chest of beer as I fill it with delicious little doves.

Yay Arizona!

Drive over during the season. Well head on down to Yuma. It's good here, but, over in the Yuma valley off the Colorado you'd have to work hard to not slay em.

[assateague]

That's how it was down outside Sierra Vista. A guy could fill three or four limits in a morning before they stopped flying, if he lived close enough to his apartment to drop birds off.

[GadwallGetter530]

The only reason I would ever move to Arizona and deal with that heat would be for the dove hunting.

[gila-river]

That's how it was down outside Sierra Vista. A guy could fill three or four limits in a morning before they stopped flying, if he lived close enough to his apartment to drop birds off.

did you go after ducks much when you were here Jim?

[RickC]

He's in Minnesota. I don't think water is going to play as big of a role as where you hunt.


When I was in the desert, I made my own water out of black plastic. Worked like a damn charm.

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A Plond! Haven't seen one of those since the 80's during a really bad drought on the Katie Prairie west of Houston. Guides were making huge plonds for goose hunts. Worked like a charm

[hudson]

I just drive along the canal road in the afternoon, find a dead cottonwood set up a stool and empty my ice chest of beer as I fill it with delicious little doves.

Yay Arizona!

Drive over during the season. Well head on down to Yuma. It's good here, but, over in the Yuma valley off the Colorado you'd have to work hard to not slay em.

Dammit Caleb are you tryin to make me take off a whole 6 months

[gila-river]

I just drive along the canal road in the afternoon, find a dead cottonwood set up a stool and empty my ice chest of beer as I fill it with delicious little doves.

Yay Arizona!

Drive over during the season. Well head on down to Yuma. It's good here, but, over in the Yuma valley off the Colorado you'd have to work hard to not slay em.

Dammit Caleb are you tryin to make me take off a whole 6 months

How much vacation you got stored up?:lol:

[GadwallGetter530]

I just drive along the canal road in the afternoon, find a dead cottonwood set up a stool and empty my ice chest of beer as I fill it with delicious little doves.

Yay Arizona!

Drive over during the season. Well head on down to Yuma. It's good here, but, over in the Yuma valley off the Colorado you'd have to work hard to not slay em.

Dammit Caleb are you tryin to make me take off a whole 6 months

How much vacation you got stored up?:lol:

I got lots.;);)

[assateague]

That's how it was down outside Sierra Vista. A guy could fill three or four limits in a morning before they stopped flying, if he lived close enough to his apartment to drop birds off.

did you go after ducks much when you were here Jim?

Very little. I jump shot Mexican ducks on the San Pedro, and had a couple dirt tanks outside town which were good for a two-shot jump shoot after about a 30 minute "stalk" up to them. Parker Canyon Lake was LOADED, but I could never get a clear answer as to whether I could hunt it or not. The forest service told me to call Game and Fish, and Game and Fish told me to call the Forest Service. Folks at the lake said "you can, but people don't like hunting around here". Just seemed like more aggravation than it was worth. And I never had enough time to head up north or over to the Colorado, so I stuck with doves and deer around town.

[gila-river]

That's how it was down outside Sierra Vista. A guy could fill three or four limits in a morning before they stopped flying, if he lived close enough to his apartment to drop birds off.

did you go after ducks much when you were here Jim?

Very little. I jump shot Mexican ducks on the San Pedro, and had a couple dirt tanks outside town which were good for a two-shot jump shoot after about a 30 minute "stalk" up to them. Parker Canyon Lake was LOADED, but I could never get a clear answer as to whether I could hunt it or not. The forest service told me to call Game and Fish, and Game and Fish told me to call the Forest Service. Folks at the lake said "you can, but people don't like hunting around here". Just seemed like more aggravation than it was worth. And I never had enough time to head up north or over to the Colorado, so I stuck with doves and deer around town.

I haven't hunted that side but I worked over in Wilcox quite a bit and always to try the playa on a rainy year.

[hudson]

I just drive along the canal road in the afternoon, find a dead cottonwood set up a stool and empty my ice chest of beer as I fill it with delicious little doves.

Yay Arizona!

Drive over during the season. Well head on down to Yuma. It's good here, but, over in the Yuma valley off the Colorado you'd have to work hard to not slay em.

Dammit Caleb are you tryin to make me take off a whole 6 months

How much vacation you got stored up?:lol:

Not enough for everything I wanna kill lol

[assateague]

I was only there for 18 months, and only really got one full season. And the playa was dry as a bone that year. I did see a crap ton of sandhills, though, although I have no idea where they were going. The deer hunting up in the Chiricahuas and around SV was pretty good, actually, but I don't know how well the mountains bounced back after that fire a couple years back.

[gila-river]

I have heard they got some good deer over there, and some monster cactus bucks. Not to take away from the seriousness of the situation but in some places up north a fire can help with the deer hunting for the first couple years. If anything dies off from the loss of food/habitat it's fawns and young deer. The mature bucks just get a little more concentrated.

[NuffDaddy]

Fuck you! I'm gonna kill a few this year just outa spite.

I'll be sure to post pictures of all those delicious song-birds as they are wrapped in bacon on my grill!

I won't post pics, but I'm gonna wrap a few in bacon in a couple weeks.

[assateague]

I have heard they got some good deer over there, and some monster cactus bucks. Not to take away from the seriousness of the situation but in some places up north a fire can help with the deer hunting for the first couple years. If anything dies off from the loss of food/habitat it's fawns and young deer. The mature bucks just get a little more concentrated.

I saw some monstrous Coues deer, but never had a shot at one. Well, "monstrous" is relative for those things, but really nice big-racked 10-pointers.

[Goldfish]

I have a lucky dove (wind powered) and 4 of the clip on decoys.

Stopped at a corn field I saw then using last year. There is something missing here, right?

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Looks like you're scoping out a sorghum field!

Dafuq is sorghum?? I was thinking maybe they were sweet corn and someone came and picked it all, but I couldn't see whet anyone would have ripped off the cobs

[assateague]

I believe they make sugar out of it.

[Goldfish]

You guys honestly think that's what that is? I have no idea now. Looked just like corn, just no cob or tassel

[3200 Man]

Yep , scouting is the number-one thing you need to do for successful Dove hunting ! Once you find a flight and get under it
all it takes is lots of shells , beer and shade . I hunt them between the neighbors Safflower and the river , mornings are crazy
and evenings are great using 30 decoys on the fence and 3 spinners to draw their attention !

[assateague]

You guys honestly think that's what that is? I have no idea now. Looked just like corn, just no cob or tassel

No, I'm pretty sure it's just fucked-up corn. I don't think sorghum is as thick as a cornstalk.

[Woody]

This thread pisses me off

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Fuck you! I'm gonna kill a few this year just outa spite.

They sit up on the electric lines mocking me all the time... I've been thinking about doing it too.