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Time to dust off the shotguns boys !

Sept 1 down here in the north zone.

Figured surely you were in the South Zone down there Hanco.

I have no time for dove right now. Bow deer season starts Saturday.

I’m ready here in WY. Hopefully a cold snap doesn’t blow them out of here between now and the first.

Wish the corn was going to be ready to cut.

Bet most of it around these parts is still a month or more away.

Cousin built a new pond and has been tearing up a bunch of ground. Hopefully they will be coming in to the bare dirt.

The dove opener is a great event for our family. Us four brothers, our sons and a couple friends hunt our Ks farm. We hunt morning, have a shrimp boil at noon do some target shooting and BSing in the afternoon. Then sit by ponds in the evening.
It’s a great two day event for us.
There will be lots of 20ga, 28 ga and 410 boreshells fired. And I usually slip in a 16 ga for one shoot.

That’s always iffy on our Tenn opener. Most corn is cut here late sept/ early october


Hunted them a few times in waste high lush, green Eagle soybeans. Nothing for them eat on, just flyway corridor to a pond and power line

For me it always meant going to wally world and picking a case of cheap shells up too. My average seemed like one or 2 birds per box of 25 shells Lol! Can kill the hell outta pheasants, ducks and geese, but SUCK at killing doves! Havent hunted em in a few years but might give it a go this year.

I sure hope this season is better than last year. Pretty dismal number of flights and population here the last couple of years.

Ten years ago I could limit out in the first 15 minutes at either of our Ranches.

Sunflowers and hopefully neighbor will cut his corn silage . Im dreading the heat .

A bunch of us put on what has to be one of the best dove hunts in the western half of N.C. We will have corn, sunflowers, and millet in the area. We have a power line on one side of the field, and a pond on the other. The field has small groups of pine trees throughout, as well. Lunch with be Lexington style N.C. BBQ with red slaw. Prayer before lunch, where every head will bow. We build great memories at this event every year. It is a fine southern tradition that we are all grateful for! I’ll be shooting a Remington Model 11 in 16 gauge this year.

Lotsa birds here.... mournings are abundant with flights of white wings and a fair smattering of eurasians.

Sept 1 in So Cal. About 20 of us head to the Salton Sea Cochella Valley Farmlands it will be 100 + humid and we will be soaked with sweat but should be plenty Doves

Dove in Cali for the first 22 years of my life was always a massacre, even deep into January at places like Llano Seco (We would shoot a limit of ducks by 9AM, and round out a limit of dove by noon. College was friggin' AWESOME). We killed thousands of doves. No joke.

Dove in South Carolina was a social event. "Well appropriated" fields (cough cough), and a dude that drove around handing out boiled peanuts and drinks. Fun, but you sat in your spot and didn't move...

Colorado, now............ generally poor dove hunting. Opening day experience for the most part, few birds, and they bug out after the first HINT of a cold snap.

I suppose it is different everywhere. But I never had a bad dove hunt, even the few I was skunked.

We haven’t had enough rain here to make a good sunflower crop - but this year it’s all good.

Going to be about a week after opener to be ready

Fuzzy do you guys burn it down with roundup? Then shred it?

I enjoy watching ltppowel kill a 16 bird limit with 16 shots from a 410 or a bent barreled 870. I like shooting 2 or 3 boxes for mine.

Yes on roundup and then mow sections. Have brown top millet around out side edges. Will mow it as well and till in grass area in middles this week. You can see telephone pole in upper pics we use to know amounts of birds when looking from distance so not to disturb.