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  • 5thDragoons
    Super Moderator
    • Apr 2023
    • 653
    #1

    Dove season

    Got out @ 0800 this morning and whacked 5 x 6 shots. A couple fellow from Mich were already out there and had the doves all revved up. No worries - we have a lot of them. I asked if they drove all the way to middle o' nowhere just to whack a few birds & they said they were on their way to Wyo where they meant to try their luck getting over-the-counter antelope permits so they could hunt public walk-in places. Good luck with that! Putting the sneak on goats in a walk-in place is a real challenge.

    I just sat in the truck and waited for more to fly in & graze on sunflower seeds. When they did, I'd creep up on them and got a few shots as mentioned. They're marinating in the fridge now - I'll try for at least 5 more before I cook them. I likes me some dove breast!

    I used my long time dove whacker - a Marlin model 43 with extra tight full choke. A previous owner had added a bit of filler to the stock, and it fits me just right. It's ugly as sin, but it fits me better than any other shotgun I've ever owned.
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    Primo dove habitat - sunflowers and what's called locally, "stinkweed". Can't tell you the actual name. It has seed pods that smell of hot chiles. Doves like the seed as well as they do hemp.
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    Dove #1 - chilling in the fridge as I type.

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    • lyman
      Administrator - OFC
      • Aug 2009
      • 11269
      #2
      need to reach out to my oldest niece and see how they did this weekend,
      my Sis in Law has the perfect spot, a light line pole that the line runs the length of her driveway, grass on one side, and 5-6 acres of corn, milo, wheat or sunflowers planted and partially bushhogged ,

      game warden , or at least a new one, may claim baited, but the older wardens will tell them to STFU since it is considered natural, (they do not throw any seed down)

      first day season starts at noon, they are usually at the limit by 2

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        • Doc Sharptail
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2023
          • 431
          #3
          Grouse season opens in a week or so here. I has to get out before the opener and get the the 52 sighted in and checked for zero hold etc. It was acting up badly on the last hunt.
          Looking good with the Marlin. I had an old s/s 12 ga with a stock cut like that, and an extension to the butt plate. Fast on rising birds.
          Post up some pix of the cooked birds!

          -D.S.

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