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On thing I've figured out about opening day of dove season,.. It's hit or miss...

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Mostly miss, I think. Still fun though.


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Not sure where I read it but according to the article the shell per bird average is 7 to 1. Now I know I've never had that bad of an average.

A project upland article was the source .

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We got 4 hunts out of ours last year and then Florence put 2 foot of water on it and winds at hurricane force blew over. A lot of work down the drain. We are 410 or 28 gauge only. I have finally got the younger ones to believe they can do as well with smaller gauges. 40 shell limit . We hunt early and get out so they can feed.


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Dove opener used to be a big social event in western Pennsylvania when I was growing up. Grab a comfortable folding chair, a case of 20 gauge 71/2's, a couple decoys and go find a spot with a tall tree on a field edge or fence row somewhere. Fun times and great memories.


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Take my boys out of school for it when it falls on a weekday. Always a fun day and I consider it a personal holiday.


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2 yrs ago I was on a 40 acre twra sown wheat feild.
Remnants of a hurricane on opener.
Wind, rain, low clouds.
Only about 6 of us fools out their in that.
Birds coming in with the wind flying low and fast
I got 4 that day.....
Birds had frigging jato packs on their tails.
I swear to god some of those birds were doing 35 - 45 mph.
The ones I knocked down I musta had 7 or 8 ft of lead on em.
Coming outta this terrian swell from the tree line and corn feilds .
Be like a 2 or 3 second reaction time on em.
Birds all afternoon.
Kinda hope that feild is available again, it wasnt last year.
I hit it the next morning and got 8 and seen their fly patterns.

If that is open and I check it out a day or 2 prior and it has alot of birds on it . Then I might consider that spot for opener insted of on ft Campbell, but post was really good last year also and the wildlife crew said they was gonna make alot of improvements on it for this year.
Me and slumlord probably lost about 7 or 8 birds that day with momentum carrying shot birds from the feild into chest high brush and briars along a creek bed about 40 yards in width It got to the point where we wouldnt shoot at birds flying along that creek bed
One guy had a dog and he found 2 for us.
I found 2 others myself in tick and chigger city.

But I told him to stop sending his dog out
Wasting his time hunting, dog in the briars, and flaring off birds.
I think they Bush hogged that creek bed , alot of guys couldnt recover birds in it.

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Unfortunately, September 1 falls on Sunday this year, so the season opens on Labor Day Monday, September 2. I hate it when that happens. I hope to be hunting over a melon patch that day. Lots of corn this year and if the harvest starts early the birds get scattered. I have seen lots of doves on the power wires along the road into my place, so hopefully there will be plenty to go around.


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