Dove Hunting

[RBishop]

Anyone geared up for some dove shooting? Or should I say shooting at some doves!  My Winchester 16 ga. model 1912 is ready to go after them.

[dougk]

I will be out tomorrow.

[Sx2]

I used to hunt a lot. Especially like dove hunting, waterfowl, deer, etc.. time gets shorter every year

[Savage .250]

Anyone geared up for some dove shooting? Or should I say shooting at some doves!  My Winchester 16 ga. model 1912 is ready to go after them.

 
 You said it correctly my friend, ".... shooting at some doves."  That`s one sport that costs my money and i get noting in return.
   Once in a while i connect but a lot more make it to Mexico then my kitchen stove.
 
  " The best part of the hunt is not the harvest but in the experience."

[ABaker]

You need to come down here to Arizona. Season started Thursday. We skipped out on work and at sunrise birds were flying past us in pairs and in small groups. I brought alot of ammo because those birds are fast.... After three days of hunting we have shot our limit all three days. We found that all the birds here fly in the same direction at sunrise so all you need to do is stand beside a tree and watch the sky. Almost too easy, but exciting. I switched to an Improved Cylinder choke and had better luck. I started out with a Modified. Going out tomorrow again. Anybody have any good recipees for dove?

[TN.Frank]

You need to come down here to Arizona. Season started Thursday. We skipped out on work and at sunrise birds were flying past us in pairs and in small groups. I brought alot of ammo because those birds are fast.... After three days of hunting we have shot our limit all three days. We found that all the birds here fly in the same direction at sunrise so all you need to do is stand beside a tree and watch the sky. Almost too easy, but exciting. I switched to an Improved Cylinder choke and had better luck. I started out with a Modified. Going out tomorrow again. Anybody have any good recipees for dove?

I've not been dove hunting since I moved from Phoenix to Crossville about 10 years ago. I really miss it.  My buddy and I had a place off of Lower Buckeye out around 83rd Ave IIRC. It was by a dairy farm.  There was a large open field between the dairy farm and the river. Doves would fly into the dairy farm in the early morning from the river and we'd have a go at em' then at around 11am they'd have their fill of grain and fly back to the river and we'd get another crack at em'.  Man, that was some good dove hunting.  We also had a place below the city of Buckeye were we'd go.
  I don't have a foggy clue as to where to hunt em' here in the Crossville, TN. area.  Talk to ya'll later.

[ABaker]

I know where that's at. I hunt around the White Tank Mountains, Beside Surprise. We shot our Limit again today. I have 50 doves in the freezer and there is still 11 days of season left!

[Ponydog]

Dove hunting here  SE Missouri bootheel...is ALWAYS excellent....delta row crop , water....but THIS yr.  the week corn harvest began...KATRINA ruined the port of New Orleans....result for corn...50 cent a bushel cost for local grain bins to "store it" until shipping to New Orleans resumes.  So , farmers don't like the idea of paying 50 cents of the 2.50 cent a bushel sell price just to have someone store it......so ...little if any corn has been harvested.......fields and fields of cut corn usually mean excellent hunting ...but , not this year....corn still standing tall...doves just keep on going ..God's speed to all those in Louisiana and Mississippi.....doves don't mean that much.......God Bless America.

[daddywpb]

Our season here starts on Oct 1st. We usually spend opening day at a state manged public field. The shooting is usually fast and furious. I won't say how many end up in the cooler. Got a new Ruger Red Label 12 gauge that is just waiting for opening day.