Haven't dove hunted in years. Used to go several times, every year. I'm not just a real good wing shot, but I do....ok! To me, dove hunting was more about shotgunning than it was about the meal. Dove just wasn't one of my favorites.
My "hit & miss" shooting ability. The cost of ammo. My indifference to eating dove. Somehow, dove hunting just doesn't make a lot of sense. They are so thick around my home, I can literally hunt my front yard....I just don't.
Rained all day here on Saturday. I heard a few dedicated hunters shooting anyway, though. Our opening day was great and a bit above average, I’d say. Corn is being harvested everywhere, so the birds are really scattered.
lousy 5 shots 3 birds. Way to hot and haven't been back out since, been 114-116 at my best field for the last several days. Thurs is the last day so might try to get out before and we've had a break from the extreme heat.
Never take life to seriously, after all ,no one gets out of it alive.
It was steady shooting in the almond and pistachio groves.
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
On Tuesday, my brother in MT welded a dove decoy and shot some doves and sent me a picture.
I have not got a dove in WA state since 1963....it was good hunting in Toppenish in 1962.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
Done at 11:43 went 15 for 29 pass shooting, birds coming out of the sunflowers headed for water and roost areas. The hunting pard was really on he shot 15/19 we had a damn good shoot. If the weather holds will get in some more ...mb
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" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "
About 1/3 of the doves we saw monday remain looked like 2/3 have moved on. Tougher shots at longer range still did a limit but it was a challenge. Light breeze low 80's....mb
" Cheapest velocity in the world comes from a long barrel and I sure do like them. MB "