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Spot shooter 
Left BSB in Disgrace
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Joined: 19 June 2003
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 Topic: Dove Season is coming!
Posted: 03 August 2003 at 02:43 |
27 days and counting.
When they are thick it's a heck of alot of fun. I've hit a dove and had it crash into a guy's chest (that was funny) - better yet later that day I hit a pair, flyin the same line and that same guy caught one in his hat as it helicoter'd down.
good time, good shooting - 27 days seems like a long time.
Spot
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bkcorris
.416 Rigby
aka The Cheesehead Savage
Joined: 11 June 2003
Location: United States
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Points: 2120
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Posted: 03 August 2003 at 10:34 |
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Dumb question, spot. Do you keep any for meat or just a sport. No problem with either, just wondering. We used to get pigeons with pellet guns in the barn and my grandma would clean and cook them. Small, but not too bad. Like a little cornish hen.
Wi has a dove season this year, first in a long time. They aren't really thick enough to go for around here. Still some in the barn though.
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Stupid people are like a slinky, they don't serve much purpose in the world but they sure are fun to watch tumble down the stairs!
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Spot shooter
Left BSB in Disgrace
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Posted: 04 August 2003 at 00:28 |
bk,
Yes!
I shoot dove and would like to eat them but can't find a recipe I like, each year I try a new one. Either way the folks I hunt with eat them if I don't (I don't waste meat ever!). I do this to get practice that I wouldn't get from clay pigeons for duck, and fly by pheasant this way I'm ready for season. So far this year I've only shot about 1000 rounds of shotgun. The doves are really thick here but the last three years a front has moved them out a week before opening day.
Second and larger reason I hunt them is to kick off season, and get my friends to realize they need practice with the shotgun. A huntin trip with a good friend is hard to beat, especially if you can laugh at each other a bit for missin shots. If we have a new guy going a ruined dove hunt is much better than a ruined pheasant or duck hunt.
Spot
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CB900F
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Honor, Integrity
Joined: 10 June 2003
Location: Eritrea
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Points: 8857
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Posted: 04 August 2003 at 02:35 |
Spot;
No dove season in Montana. Don't know how it compares to Kansas, but there seem to be enough doves to warrant it here. Then again, I'm not a professional game biologist. So instead, I'll just sit here & pout & envy you.
 900F
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Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!!
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Deputy Al
.22 LongRifle
Joined: 27 July 2003
Location: United States
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Points: 54
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Posted: 06 August 2003 at 04:04 |
24 shopping days until dove season opens......going to the south end of the Salton Sea for the "opener" this year. 110-115 degree temps by noon, so you try to get limited out during the morning shoot.
Bird numbers look pretty good this year--we were in that area a couple weeks ago, and the birds were THICK. Lots of white-winged turtledoves, too. They are a little larger than mourning doves, and I used to shoot a lot of them when I worked near the Sea early in my career.
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Deputy Al
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Triggerguard
.416 Rigby
aka The San Antonio Terminator
Joined: 13 June 2003
Location: United States
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Points: 2212
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Posted: 06 August 2003 at 09:52 |
Texas north zone opens first Saturday in September, south zone three weeks later. Have done some scouting for a company lease, to schmoooze clients. Dove shooting is a huge social event around here.
Even that anti-gun bitch, former governor Ann Richards pretends to shoot doves.
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"...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke
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Spot shooter
Left BSB in Disgrace
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Joined: 19 June 2003
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Posted: 06 August 2003 at 12:29 |
CB,
If it were cold enough I'd send you some dove breasts.
Dep. Al,
100 and what ! That ain't no fun
Trigger,
1 Sept here, and it's a company holiday! YAH!
spot
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Deputy Al
.22 LongRifle
Joined: 27 July 2003
Location: United States
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Posted: 08 August 2003 at 00:42 |
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The high temps keep the "whitewings" around, so there's a payoff for the heat. I think. I'll admit that I left the Indio area in 1982 due to the summer temps, though--driving past a "time/temp" sign on the bank near the station one day, the sign flashed up "4;35 P.M.---128 degrees F". THAT was enough, in wool uniform pants and Kevlar vest.
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Deputy Al
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Spot shooter
Left BSB in Disgrace
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Joined: 19 June 2003
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Posted: 08 August 2003 at 00:44 |
Deputy Al,
Now that's hot!!!! It opens Monday the 1st of Sept here in KS, and Missouri. I hunt both sides with friends. Keeping my fingers crossed that we don't get a cold front down this year that drives them out.
Spot
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Triggerguard
.416 Rigby
aka The San Antonio Terminator
Joined: 13 June 2003
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Posted: 08 August 2003 at 10:36 |
Deputy Al, white wing turtle doves? Same as the whitewing dove we know and love in Texas? Bigger than mourning doves, square tail?
My county has the largest concentration of whitewings in the state! Twenty years ago, whitewing were legal ONLY in counties in the Rio Grande Valley, and for two weekends per year. Not sure about limit this year, last year was 12 doves per day, not to excede more than 3 whitewings and three whitetips.
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"...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke
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Deputy Al
.22 LongRifle
Joined: 27 July 2003
Location: United States
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Posted: 22 August 2003 at 09:51 |
T-guard:
Yes, same critter. Only legal in the southern counties of the state, and no Inca or Mexican ground doves. Limit is 10 this year, as it has been for the past decade or so. No cut-off on whitewings here--you can limit out on the larger birds if they show up.
An interesting little tidbit came over NPR News this morning......West Nile Virus has been detected in mosquitoes in the area we hunt (south end of Salton Sea). Once in a while that leftist bunch gets some worthwhile news on the airwaves.
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Deputy Al
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Spot shooter
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Posted: 29 August 2003 at 00:32 |
OHHHHHH!,
Major cold front came in, only God knows if it brought more doves. Usually it takes doves away. On Monday I'll find out, need to get rid of that itch on my trigger finger.
Spot
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Spot shooter
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Posted: 29 August 2003 at 11:30 |
YAH!!!!
We're good, TONS of doves got pushed down from Iowa......
doves EVERYWHERE !
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Birdwatcher
.243 Winchester
Joined: 21 July 2003
Location: United States
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Posted: 30 August 2003 at 19:19 |
YEEEHAAAW!!!! Just got an invite from a good buddy to miss doves on his family property again this year (I am possibly the world's worst wingshot, I dunno, maybe my heart ain't in it :o). Gonna try out my brand NIB Savage Stevens Fox 311 12 ga. double I found at a gunshow recently. Ya, I know a Savage double is a broomstick compared to a fine SS or OU, but it IS an American classic.
Turns out this same property is "infested with hogs" and the family wanted to know if "we would be interested in shooting any" :o) :o) :o)
So, the Fall is upon us again, as evidenced by migrating doves. Actually, a number of shorebirds and small birds have been moving back South in numbers since early July. Point of interest, this far south, we got a pair of mourning doves still incubating on a nest out in back of my house. Probably their third brood.
Trigger is right about whitewings, I live in the same South Texas county and there are more than ONE MILLION whitewings living in the county now. In recent years they have had a behavioral change and now are an abundant urban bird. EVERYBODY'S car gets pooped on by the ones nesting in their yard.
Birdwatcher
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Triggerguard
.416 Rigby
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Joined: 13 June 2003
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Posted: 31 August 2003 at 08:20 |
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I don't know, BW, I think the estimates are wrong. Seems
to me to be about 40 gabazillion instead of a mere million.
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"...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke
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shreck
.22 LongRifle
Joined: 16 September 2003
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Posted: 27 September 2003 at 10:44 |
Spot Shooter, marinade dove breasts in Carolina Treet overnight and grill them. YYYUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYYY . Or do them like you would Buffalo wings and grill them. There are some marinading in the fridge from today's hunt. I had to walk them up, for each dove I must have walked a mile.
BTW, Carolina Treet is my House marinade for chicken on the grill.
http://www.carolinatreet.com/
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Eat cold steel!
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shreck
.22 LongRifle
Joined: 16 September 2003
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Posted: 27 September 2003 at 10:47 |
 Birdwatcher wrote:
YEEEHAAAW!!!! Just got an invite from a good buddy to miss doves on his family bird.
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How'd ya do Birdy? Is it squab for dinner at casa Birdwatcher?
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Eat cold steel!
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