Plans for Dove opener

[mdcrossbow]

We open in Va @12 noon, 5 farms with 5 acres or better each with sunflowers.
Somehunters want to gathers on one field. I think we need to cover all the bases. Which will keep the birds moving...

Post up results of your hunts. Prep well be prepared.

 

[Birdbander]

No dove hunting here in Michigan so I'll make my annual trip to a lifelong friend's house in southeast Indiana, arriving to hunt Friday afternoon and through Monday.

We'll be hunting a combination of private ground food plots and public fields planted by DNR. Saturday morning will find us spread out across three different places then gathering on the best flight locations from then on.

Goid luck everyone!

 

[TwistedSage]

14 x 6 ft pvc liner, going to put in in a hole I made digging fill dirt for a recent project. Hopefully 600 ft hose will reach for now. This will be a new water source out there, the only one for quite a ways and it'll be fenced off from all stock.

 

[TheGreek]

A buddy and I will be out on a public field here in Illinois. Hopefully there are some birds around.

 

[Gellar]

At my old work place 4 of us would go to Missouri, before Iowa had a season, and camp at a public area and shoot doves the opening morning.

 

[mdcrossbow]

Maryland Dove opens today.

 

[Runnin_Chupacabra]

CA Dove opens today as well, good luck to everyone getting out today. Should hit 100 deg today for the opener, 110 in some places Sunday, looks like I'm not going deer hunting

 

[Ben Lamb]

No dove hunting here in Michigan

I'll be throwing rocks the 20 or so hanging around the house because I can't shoot them.

They mock me, and I'm over it.

 

[mtmiller]

Headed out in a couple hours. This will be Slash's third dove opener. He is a little more serious than he was at 13.5 weeks.

He sure had big ears back then.

 

[BucksnDucks]

California is good for something. Limits (15 each) for my son and I by 0715 on a public refuge. The chaos of opening day on an unlimited entry refuge was its own special kind of wonderful. For the record his shooting skills put me to shame. He finished with a double around 0700 with under a box of shells.

 

[Runnin_Chupacabra]

Headed out in a couple hours. This will be Slash's third dove opener. He is a little more serious than he was at 13.5 weeks.

He sure had big ears back then.

Good looking dog

 

[mtmiller]

Got out birds, but it was warm.

 

[schmalts]

Got out birds, but it was warm.View attachment 237422

HTF are you getting 19MPG??

 

[mtmiller]

Last couple trips to glacier I got 20.2.

 

[TheGreek]

Well the birds were there yesterday on the public field I hunted here in Illinois. I managed a limit (15) before 4pm, you can’t start until 12 noon, and not because I shot well. One of the few, great days a year on public here in Illinois.

 

[thomas89]

Got out for a couple hours last night. Ended up with 9. Including a cripple this girl pulled out from the corn field right as we got there.

 

[Nick87]

Well be out with two oldest boys, my brother and the dog in the morning. Haven't missed an opening weekend, ever.

 

[mdcrossbow]

Well be out with two oldest boys, my brother and the dog in the morning. Haven't missed an opening weekend, ever.

Like my son, I was wondering where he was about 8:30 am. Opening day he needs his spot on public.

 

[stevejfarms]

Dawn in the dove field. Excellent opening morning hunt, we had 36 hunters this year and killed 394 birds. I got called away for a minor family emergency and didn’t get a chance to take pictures of the midday feed and all the kiddos. The future of hunting is bright here. If anyone ever invites you to hunt a cut hemp field do it. This is our 2nd year of industrial hemp production and I’ve never seen a better dove attractant in my 43 yrs of dove hunting.

 

[mtmiller]

Looks worse than it was.