Anybody got any insight on finding, holding and shooting birds? I don't have any private or leased land to use so I'll be in the national forest or a WMA.

find water and food.

Small water holes with lots of bare ground around the edge for them to land are good for evening shoots, especially the last two hours of light. If there’s lots of water sources in the area, those water holes won’t be so good.
First 2-3 hours in morning, harvested grain fields or flyways to/from grain fields are good. During mid day, they’ll be resting in tree groves.

Scouting… Scouting, Scouting but given the birds migrate don’t do it until a week before season starts.
Most states have “dove field maps” for wildlife areas - get them… use them to scout.
Expect ALOT of guys - be courteous, and even friendly to other hunters…

If you hunt fields and tuck into tree lines with other guys you get the special pleasure of calling out birds flying behind them they can’t see so that they can shoot at them and speed them up for you..


Get spinning wing decoys - at least 2… 4 is better, put a couple of them up high, and a couple lower to the ground..

Take a bucket to sit on, make sure you have off & sunblock, morning & evening hunts are the way to go - but make sure you are on a tree line (if hunting fields.. wear camo & tuck into the tree line..

Shells & Chokes -
Most Wildlife areas require you to use Steel shot these days, so if you don’t have some decent choke tubes (like Carlson waterfowl tubes), it will benefit you to get some… (and don’t take lead).
The national average of shots on a dove to “take a dove” is crazy high … so get out and practice first, or take way, way more shells than you think you need. I used to shoot competition, and every year we have ALOT of doves - without fail one of the guys that comes with me for more shells… 8:1 is sadly not uncommon for newbs…


Zip lock bags, a couple gallons of water, paper towels, game shears - are all you need to breast them out …
Take a cooler with ice in it to cool the meat down.


Safety wise on fields - Don’t shoot below 45 degree’s… or below the opposite sides tree line…. Guys get tempted at shooting at low birds, but it’s
dangerous so don’t do it….

Excellent and accurate post. The only thing I can add is that your scouting (and hunting) is typically better early and late in the day. Doves tend to be on the ground feeding during mid-day. If you have to scout in the middle of the day, look for groups of doves sitting in trees or on wires. That means a lot more of them are on the ground nearby.

Wear shooting glasses even if you don't believe you will need them. I've been hit (indirect fire) countless times, have had family members hit (indirect fire) and two childhood friends shot by direct fire with one of those losing an eye while dove hunting.

People are nuts in the dove fields.

a gravel road, power wires, dead trees, are easy to spot. If they are close to water and food then you have all the pieces (except birds) needed

If the wma,s around your area have dove plots on em like here in Tn.
Should be on a website listed with x amount of acres and what is planted on it.
Stay away from soggy sunflower if it has been raining alot right up to the hunt.
Hunt by the hard seed like millet or corn.
Learned a couple years ago.
Dove around here wont hit squishy rain soaked sunflower.
Just a passed on experience that bit me in the azz a couple years ago.

They might even have leased feilds open to the public.
Those should be listed on a web site also


Have on the leased feilds.
It's always interesting .......

WMA fields are waaay less wild west here cause you gotta have at least a WMA small game permit

Which kinda cuts into the money your average public access leased field bubba wont spend.


Kinda thinking with Honk for Joey inflation and no stimmy checks.
The crowd might be somewhat culled this year.

It's always interesting on a leased field or a WMA.

The sheer humanity entertainment value is a added factor to it.

Try to have 2 or 3 guys with ya.
Or coordinate with guys who seem to have common sense around ya.
Space out about 50 yds apart and try to " own" some ground and also a safety factor.

But their are always gonna be people showing up late prior to the shooting.
Walking across the middle of the feild
They will still do it during shooting hours also.
Fughing up shooting and flaring off birds coming in 100 s of yards away.
People getting pissed off at em .
Telling em they are being unsafe and fugging up hunting.
Nothing like having a dumbazz popping up from behind a terrian mask in your feild of fire 50 60 75 yds out during shooting hrs after he has walked across the entire field and then setting up in front of you even if you have tried to put a terrian mask in front of you for safety to others and able to safely shoot at a low bird.

I have made simple safety suggestions to TWRA concerning their wma,s and leased feilds
1. 50 m between hunters unless in a group of 2 to 4.
2. No setting up beyond 25 yds from fields exterior border
3. No walking across feild during shooting hrs except to directly retrieve a bird.

Too simple
Too common sense.
And a warden would have to do his job with a little bit of monitoring.
Gawd forbid that😱😱😱😱


Everything from utter morons to ATV,s hauling a 20 ft trailer with a metal kitchen chair welded on it
AKA: The Xm 51 dove assualt vehicle.

Priceless.....


Camden WMA is a good one around here.
Some of the leased feilds can be a really excellent shoot.

The thing is to go check em out a day or 2 prior to the shoot.
See what the birds are doing.
Scope out kinda where you wanta set up.
2 or 3 spots in mind
Shade is a premium factor to figure in also.
Or create yourself some shade.
Homie dont get paid anymore to stay out in the sun for hours on end.

Watching people sit out in the middle of a field in the glaring unrelenting sun always happens.
They eventually wither by the wayside and are always moving.
Fugging up others hunts...
These are usually your late arriver types and have no other spot to sit than in the middle of a feild in front of numerous people on the edges.
People in the sun:

I will show sympathy to elderly types
People with kid types
People with a dog.
To come and sit by my spot in the shade or rotate out with them in the shade.
Even offering em my chair to give a spell from the sun and just stand off in the shade 5 or 10ft and continue to hunt and talk.

Some are hard headed outta stubborn pride.
Fine.... be all hardcore and schit like a set of woodpecker lips out their in the 93 100 ° blaring azz sun.
Roast for all I care now dumbazz.
I do feel sorry for a kid or dog with mr dumbazz.
I have a 2 man shade shelter that is camo .
Half moon dome able to sit in with 2 full size chairs.
Can cover 270° of skyline.
I'm offering outta my basic sympathy for a person to get outta the sun.
Bought it about 5 yrs to keep my bud Slumlord outta the sun.
If He ain't with me the spot is open.
I have let people use my tarps for their dog to create shade for it.
Black labs seem to need it too me in the sun.
Have given away my water to people with dogs who dont plan well.
We all know what sun exhausted dog looks like and it ain't good for em at all.

I have rarely ever had courtesies extended to me.
Safety, common sense, or equipment wise.
Equipment.... not needed really

Safety and common sense courtesy would be nice though.

I will go only so far with my being nice my patience is about 30 mins of dealing with dumbfuggery, then it is full blown dik head mode after numerous attempts to reason with a moron.
It is even more emphasized on a moron when you got 3 or 4 other hunters on your flanks getting upset and saying the same things to the dipschit
Peer pressure eventually makes the idiot leave and go mess up another group of like minded hunters who are trying to do the right things.


And get their early.
If it opens at noon the 1st day.
I'm talking like arriving between 7 to 8 am to get your " land grab"

That 1st day and the next morning dawn opening time are good shoots.
Also some wma,s and leased public feilds have staggered opening dates other than sept1 and basically those are fresh fields on their opener.


Dove hunting is fun

But can be aggravating on public leased access fields .
Not as bad on WMA fields by considerable factor.

They (doves) hang around until you have a night below 50 degrees… when that happens they move and go south immediately…

Plan accordingly

FTCKY dove fields are GTG.
0 absouloutly zeefugging ro dumbfuggery is tolerated.
Fed wardens control access time 1 hr prior.
Staked positions and people come to a mutual agreement on positions by order of arrival at the access point.
Kinda a dibs on this spot based on I got here before you.
And everyone understands that courtesy.
Only x amount of hunters allowed on the feild based on the # of positions anyways.
None of the positions are in the middle of the feild .
All on exterior border.
And you have a 25 yd radius from your stake to set up.
All permits, license, guns checked at access point.
Laws and rules enforced and not a blind eye turned to them at all.

Havent been in the dove plot in area 21 for 3yrs.
Couple others on post also.
21 seems to be the best one to me.
One of the wardens told me it was a good shoot last year.
Said he hadn't seen me on it for 2 yrs.
Told him been going to Camden.

Might be a option on opener for me .
Check out 21 a day or 2 prior

Watched a dumbazz pop a song bird about 4 yrs ago 2 stakes down on 21.
The bird flew over the like 4 or 5 positions on the feild.
Then blam like 2 or 3 stakes down from me someone blew it away
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Bout 30 mins later one of the wardens walked the outside border stopping at each position.
He got to me.
I just motioned with my thumb sideways to my left shaking my head and chuckling.
He just laughed a little and said "oh yeah I'm going to talk to mr songbird and make his day exspensive"

Dude got a 125 buck ticket and escorted off the field for all to see.

Talk of the town stuff and lotsa laughs at the end of the hunt by the vehicle parking spot.


Dove hunting is fun to say the least.
That and squirrel is something to do in the 3 week interim till deer season kicks off on FTCKY.

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Doves like to follow straight lines in topography. Sunflower and hemp fields attract them. Mojo doves if legal where your at helps attract them too. Place on 10ft pole or higher

Around here it seems to be real popular, at the public fields on opening day, to show up with 4-8 buddies and stay together in a group. The group will then fire en masse at every bird no matter how far away. On the rare occasion that a bird falls if it lands in the weeds or some distance away none of the group bothers looking for it.
Fortunately opening day is the only time a lot of those people hunt.

Damn I'm glad I hunt private property. Our biggest problem is having enough people to keep the birds moving. Frustrating to watch 100's land on the far end of a field and have to walk down there.

I'm kind of surprised nobody has anything like "use a trash can lid to bait them with whatever they like and remove it the evening before the hunt".

An actual quote from a brilliant man who charges (and gets) 3 grand a year per member for a dove club. His club is too far or I would be a member. When he was young and struggling to find birds he had lids with grit, water and millet out until the day before.

Anybody got any paid dove clubs or shoots in the Tallahassee/Bainbridge/Thomasville/Sopchoppy area?

I got a few tips

1. dont use spinning decoys. It makes the doves think a hawk is hovering and about to pounce on ground feeding doves
2. Go out NOW and start looking for resident doves. Those are the birds you’ll be hunting opening day.
3. After opening day, that fantasy of migrating, fat yankee doves is a fallacy. They all get blasted in Indiana on the way.
4. Don’t ride your atv, 6 passenger bad boy buggy, 6 wheeled ARGO, or other all terrain dove assault vehicle all over the [bleep] field or even leave it visible. How bout just WALK like a man.
5. Take all of your shît with in one trip
6. Get there before daylight even if opening day starts at NOON like it does in most AMERICAN places. Yeah I know tiddy babies out west have different times.
Either way. Get there early and make a land grab. Bring extra chairs and tell mooching muthfckers that your buds are running late. Spread those ghost chairs out 50 yards either side. Sometimes it works.

Wear glasses to protect your eyes from shots at low flying doves by other "hunters"

Lots of good advice already offered. Only thing I can add is that for some reason around here doves love to fly fence lines.
Hunting a spot between water and cover on a fence line is always a recipe for success.

I might not dove hunt

I need to stay home monitor Breitbart, Brighteon, gateway pundits, mother earth news, salem radio, wacko waco davidian network, minnesota public radio

Ya know

To keep my finger on the pulse and make jimmy olsen updates and barf up verbatim what the news releases say and copy paste it here. Asap

LOLOL - maybe I need to tone down the news reports for ole slumlord.

The mojo spinning wing motorized decoys work like crazy here for the early part of the season. The two guys that had them in the opening day shoot last year had doves landing on the pole/tree doohickey they were sitting on. Doves would come over me high enough to need an o2 mask directly from behind, hang a 90 degree turn, burn right into the decoy tree and flare and land on it by a regular decoy.

My buddy at the coast where there's a bunch of kites (50 miles away) says the same thing you do.

In SD it seems that the doves don't care about your vehicle. They also decoy great to spinning mojo's. I built a couple trees that have stationary and spinning deeks in it and the birds land all the time in it. I usually park a 100 yards away. Not much pressure up here though. 100s in the wheat now. First cold snap and they head south. Some years it doesn't even pay to go out Sept 1. Looking forward to the season.

Watching the sky line.
Alot of birds 100,s of yards away flare away from mojo dove around here.
I would say 65 70% of the time.
Like slumlord says we both think it looks like a hawk at hover ready to pounce.
Not a fan of mojo dove.

Used to set decoys on a 10 12 ft skun down sapling outline to sky.
It would work on calm birds and bring em in.
But once they start getting shot at it's pretty well decoys are done time.
You might some random ones coming in from a opposite direction that ain't been feeling the heat and be drawn in by dekes.

I dont even use em anymore.
Rather carry more chubby treats and water in their place.
I had 6 really nice ones.
Think I sold em at a yard sale couple yrs ago...


Another poster talked about groups of 4 5 8 sky blasters and their azzholery.
You get a couple of groups like that in a hot area.
Like some fuuuucking german flak tower in WW2 schit.
Fuuucking cock blocking other hunters, not just the ones immediately around them but everyone on a field espically if it is a major fly route onto a feild the 1st day, tee heeing and Haw hawing about it.
Makes a primo pile of doves pic on the tailgate for Facebook I geuss.
They dont even know who shot what for the most part.
I like knowing I I waylayed a bird and like watching gravity do its thing and the thump when it hits the ground.
Alot of times you see these groups hitting the same bird 2 or 3 times on the way down.

Even though perfectly legal, the over all delibrate game pig aspect of it really sucks.


TN Wardens fuuuuking see it around here and dont say a damm thing to em.
Ruins opportunity for everyone on the field type of schit would not be a difficult approach to speak about to groups like this for a warden to do.

Tn Wardens don't wanna be seen as the bad guy espically when dealing with the locals in the area they live in.
They got no spine....



Hate that schit...

Didnt know there were so many rules to kill a bird!

Best spot around here that we found was actually the local skeet club. Have not been there in a few years. But used to grab a sixer and swing by on the way home from work. Not a bad way to wrap up a day

bring tons of ammon and shoot quick they dont hold a direction for long. use medium or open choke. dont bother with dogs they r easy to flush themselves.

^^^^^^
Masar sockpuppet posting up stupid schit on purpose looking for attention.
LMFAO!!!
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Maser?

Really?

You gots the nose of a Mississippi bloodhound if you are right.

Ain't hard to figure out.
2019 member date.
Starts posting about a week or 2 after Crappy Hamster stops in July.
Trying to build up cred all over the forums by interacting with well known members.
Posting up generalities of "knowledge" attained from being on here
Has at least 3 favorite deer rifles.
Drops little nugget chime in post all over.

Makes a post on this thread about dogs and dove hunting
Like people hunt dove walking feilds with dogs and flushing them up... either out of sheer stupidity or looking for a reaction from the post.

All one has to do is look at his new sockpuppet post history.

I could probably antagonize his azz for awhile and get him to lose it like I did to his " Uncle Alvah" sockpuppet yesterday, like elkymasarnutts when he blows his top style.

Why even bother anymore.....
2 or 3 of his other pathetic sockpuppets will take its place.
The generic sock puppet profile with 0 info on it.
Surprised he has given up friending his own sockpuppets with his fuschia colored hair Masar Avatar....
Thinking he is being smart???
More like a demented loser who lives on the web between scamming people thru his bullschit Cardones Ministries scam...

He really sucks at sockpuppeteering...
I just want him to know alot of us can peg him anytime we want.


You all can decide for yourself on these retard sockpuppets of his that are on here.
This little retard has been doing this for years and alot of aloof people and B types fall for his crap.

Pretty fuuuuking pathetic that running sockpuppets on 24 is the axis his life revolves around and it all started when Bin fuuuked up him originally as Masar...

Plus add in how me and slumlord had him thinking several yrs ago we was on his side and was gonna try and work to get him back with a 2nd chance with Bin.
Then totally pulled the rug out from under him on that and fuuuked him up...
And all the times I have fuuucked him up since.
Told the stupid fuuuk long game....

He still dont know what I did behind the scenes and how Crappy Hamster outta the blue seemingly had restrictions put on that account similar to his Masar one.

Fuuuuk him and the little Hobby horse he rode in on...

I choose when and what I wanna do to fuuuktards...

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Don’t come back startin’ a thread about how you “happened” to go hunt a place where you found a dude whackin’ it again.


2x ain’t a coincidence.

Just sayin….


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Did Geno67 make a thread like that???
About someone rubbing one out while hunting??
WTF.....


I must have missed it.
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Posting up dumb stuff like “I know this is my sweater, it smells like cum”

lol

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I miss all the good threads I geuss.
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Flushing up doves, now there’s a technique I have yet to try ... like shooting straight out at ground level is not a safety issue on any dove hunt.

Getch yerself a long whip of river cane

Walk around the edges of the dove field and swat the ground. Also take a hickory stick and whoop the bark on them fencerow trees. Get em circulin

This works on them kudzu deers too

Shoot 'em in such a way that they land in your truck-bed.

Don't take Cheney!

Seen Pat do that.

finding downed dove is tough, no matter how much ground cover there is. So I'd suggest that when you drop one don't take your eye off of the spot it dropped. They are tough to find even in a plowed/weed-less field.

Chest high briars to find a bird, step on a nope-rope, usually in shorty pants on them 102F afternoons 😳

So worth it

Shoot another one to replace it 💁‍♂️

Ole Masar Huncho Poo been laying down some post today.
Building up that cred track record schit...
But seemingly has not seen this thread again being hit also.


Hmmmmmm......🤔🤔🤔🤔
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Public land / Mountain lake fishing thread a couple days ago.


Said he was there tearing the fish up, while some dude was tearing his meat up.


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Neither one slacked up ….

Harry the ham slammer

It was probably "Huncho" rubbing one out.
Did Geno67 mention if the chronic masturbator was wearing a diaper down around his knees and was looking at the kids at the campfire forum????

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I went to a dove “field” once in North Carolina on the opener.

What a [bleep]. I have never been so traumatized. Why people hunt there shoulder to shoulder with others is beyond me.

Did the whacker offer have a dove dog with him???

You know, like the dogs we all have while walking bush hogged sunflower and cut corn rows on dove plots. Hoping to flush up some dove at a public hunt to get a shot at real quick before they change directions on the wing from being flushed up off the ground and schit.....

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I got buddies who take their Labs to retrieve downed doves.

And that's what dogs do on Dove feilds sit or lay by you and go out and retrieve downed birds for you while you stay in place for other birds possibly coming in to shoot.

Not out like hunting pheasant or quail walking feilds flushing up birds to shoot and schit like Zippy the pinhead Masar Huncho Poo posted.

Lotsa dogs on the feilds around doing their job retrieving birds.

And no one walking behind them waiting for em to point and flush up doves on the ground for a shot..

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Hey slumlord you remember the name of that black lab ole dude had on 21 about 3 or 4 yrs ago.
He retrieved like 3 or 4 birds for that fell in some knarly schit.
Didnt mind one bit giving that guy that tarp to make some shade for the dog either.


Runny???
Remmy???

Something with a R IIRC.

Young dog but had stuff down.

Doug from academy,s dog is a really good retriever dog also.
He said she is getting older and he has a new one been learning the ropes from her.
Cant remember her name either..

She is some type of spaniel breed IIRC.


Didnt see either of those guys walking behind their dogs trying to flush up dove for a shot.
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Just a dog going from point A to B to get a downed bird and back to A.

Sometimes you don't even realize a guy is around you till he shoots
And his dog goes out for a retrieve.
Cool....
Guy with a dog around .
Dude might send his dog out to help us get a bird if needed.

BTDT.
Most times it is a young dog and the owner wants it to get some more experience on blind retrieves for a lost bird using its nose that the dog might not have seen go down.

following with interest...have never hunted doves. Now that I live where it is done I want to learn about it.

It's fun man.
Not alot to " learn"
Shells , gun , water, chubby treats, something to sit on in the shade on edge of a plot.
SC probably has WMA and leased public fields.

Some thing to do for at least one day.

Some of the shooting when they are flying can get pretty fast.
Reloading fast is a plus.
Then ya can have alot of time when they ain't flying.
Smart phone surfing 24hr helps the lulls go by.

Me and slumlord were on a public lease feild couple yrs ago.
Kinda slow at times in our area.
Then for about 30 35 mins around 430 to 5.
We couldnt load our guns fast enough to keep up with birds getting by and keeping track of the ones we shot on the ground.
He had a Berreta 390
I had a Winchester 1400
Load 3 shoot
Load 3 shoot
Repeat repeat repeat.
Both of our guns got rather hot to say the least.
But they didn't puke.

Looking forward to using my new to me Berreta 390 this year also.


Just about every dove plot has hot spots like this.
You hear em thruout the day and just wishing man...
Why didn't we set up their.

Some times you just dont know going onto one of these feilds what the birds are doing.
But alot of times if ya go to some of the same feilds over the years. You can have a pretty good idea of how the birds tend to fly on that feild based on the tree lines and geography of the place.
Placement of the specific crop or crops is also a factor
And sometimes you wind being those guys in that spot everyone else is hearing or seeing for that amount of time.

1st day on most feilds around here.
Action is pretty good for 1st 90 mins or so from the noon shooting time.
Slows down from 2 to 4 ish but ya still got birds flying but not as much.
Then ya start getting the heavy late afternoon and evening flying.

The next morning dawn shoot ain't bad on these feilds either.
But after that 2nd day it gets less and less for action.


Bout the best advice for someone wanting to try dove hunting.
Is hunt a field with top sown wheat seed.
Same feilds usually have cut or chopped corn rows
Bush hogged or burnt sunflower
Millet.
Milo.


Your state if they have public leased feilds and WMA files should list them on their hunting and fishing website.

Tn has theirs broken down into 4 regions .
They been updating the WMA fields since the 8th .
The leased fields usually ain't posted until the week prior to the opener.

I'm kinda hoping the Riley brothers farm by the CO OP in Robertson county is on for this year.
Ain't been in 3 yrs .
Prior to that it was open for 3 yrs.

Have never seen a public leased dove field here in Montgomery county nor stewart.

Robertson has one or more every year.

Bunk Chaney

Good practice for duck season.

Ploodo?

The " problem " with sitting on top sown wheat around here is everybody is drawn to it .
Usually bare disced soil in the broiling sun with little to no shade at all and usually surround by the bush hogged row crop also on the plot.

If ya know how birds tend to fly onto a field hunting a shaded wood line edge flight path is a good spot.
Better than roasting to death in the sun.

The reason I also got my shelter was for shade for me and slumlord to make our own shade when none is available.

I will set it up and take another pic of it to post up so some of you guys can see what exactly it looks like.
Posted up a pic of it 2 or 3 yrs ago.
All together it is 45 50 bucks well spent.

For sure.

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Less than 20 mins with a smoke break in no rush.
Set up









mouse tap test

It was blue and white.
Wally world.
Did some mods with the rear panel for air flow thru it.
Couple cans of cheap spray paint.
2 sided burlap about 12 bucks at rural king
Probably got 45 50 bucks max in it.
2 can sit comfortable, safe, and shoot.

Dont always use if good tree shade is available
But it is nice to have on hand and available.
Weighs about 7 pds total with the burlap.
Shelter rolls up into the container about 20 inches long and 6 or 7 inches in diameter, tube like.
Roll the burlap up around it.
Not hard to carry stuck in a ruck with your shells, water, and chubby treats, bug dope, small aerosol can of rem oil or break free,
some paper towels, couple walley world bags, and chair stuck under ruck straps.
The rem oil or break free has helped out alot of fellow hunters around me over the years when their SG,s start puking.
My gerber tool has also..

Dude when was the last time you lubed and cleaned your SG???

Ahhhhhh
2 or 3 yrs ago???

Well I got some basic schit that might help ya...
And lucky for you I know alot of SG,s and can probably help you.

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Slumlord has seen me do schit like this for total strangers if they accept my offer.
If ya don't outta stupid azz "pride"..
I'm cool with that also...

#notalwaystheazzhole...

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About 4 or 5 yrs ago on 21 on FTCKY .
82 84 yr old guy out their standing along a corn row
90° easy in the blaring azz sun.
I'm talking with slumlord about it.
Kinda eating at me old dude is roasting.
He had a Fish and wildlife guy with him as his chaperon, the guy that had the dog that retrieved a couple of birds for us.
So basically all 3 were roasting and the F&W guy and his dog were obligated to stay with him.
About 45 mins into the opener during a lull.
I went over and offered/ pleaded with the old man to change spots with me and go sit in my shelter on my chair with slumlord .
The dog and the F&W guy coulda tucked into it also in the space behind the chairs and got some reprieve also.
At least the dog , the F &W guy was also hunting too.


Nope.........
Stubborn azz old man pride..
And it sure as fugg ain't a weakness IMO listening and accepting a common sense offer of help

Dude left and went home about 230.
Sunburnt the fuuuk up red as hell..
After he left I gave a tarp to the F&W for his dog to have shade in a different spot by a stunted tree line.


People can keep their foolish pride and live with however it bites em in the azz....

I ain't offering help or something to embarrass a person....
But that is how some hardheaded people think....


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Chaneylake on Tndeer has / had some kick azz dogs for dove and duck hunting.

Dude set up like Higgins from Magnum PI and schitt.
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Chaney..

Plantation/ slave owner inheritance land baron descendant.
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Not like WillyG the same catagory type who is a absolute fuuuking inept moron.......

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Dude I bet if you touched bases with Chaney like a blast from the past.
He would "in like flynt" us into his dove shoot like royalty and schit.

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Chaney Cooper..
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Shade is never a problem when you're prepared.

R.I.P. Bunk

laffin’
I’m picturing that thing in a 15mph head wind!

Dude gets serious about his sunflowers too!

Lol, I've cleaned my 870 once in 13 years, and I've hunted a lot of ducks in the salt.

Atta boy

That’s what I’m sayn

This Rem50 guy always givin me [bleep] about that

“Hey man ya probably oughtta take that new rifle out the box, cut the tags off and run 200-300 mops of Butch’s bore shine down the pipe.
Maybe put on Ben Hur and copper bristle the riflings during the whole movie.”

FFS

Please kneegro....
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1 example....

How dat crazy Karl Gustav shoot now that it ain't a 6mm copper bore and a 6.5 mm steel bore now???

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Now it shoots like shît

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Rog....
It's obviously a older 870.
You know
I know
Everyone knows

If it was one of the newer ones it would have puked on you by the end of the 1st season.
And would look like the inside of a sewer pipe on the exterior.
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I’ll admit….

I don’t clean guns worth a fug…..



I just hit em a fouling shot before each season….

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Blow the soot out when I’m doing my yearly 2 shots on the paper dinner plate check zero ritual.

Boolits high as giraffe puzzy. Fug them cloverleafs….

I never saw Walter Brennan worrying with such…..

He just shot MOBG. ( minute of bad guy).

Walter Brennan ??


He is my favorite actor. Have you seen Big Rio Rancho El Camino Silverado?

That the picture where he only uses throwing knives??

Blast them!

Always a good time in the field.

Cooking a wally world thin crust pepperoni pizza right now.
Did a cut sling load with a schit ton of extra pepperoni on it.

Then nap time with the hounds in about an hour.
They like pizza also.
Khanarella and Mini Khanarella never give em people food chubby treats, Treat em like lab rats and schit.
#cooldoggrampy....



Sept 1 aint coming soon enough....


I think ole MasarPoo is in avoidance mode of me with his new crop of sockpuppets....

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Pinky in the air button down collar formal dining with grey poupon comments highly encouraged ...
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A can of pb blaster and a can of some kinda spray gun oil is about the handiest thing in my huntin car. Guns work fine all year sitting in da safe and then renig on dey wurk contrakt after the fourth box of shells in the blazin sun.

If dat pizza frozen you rearranged dem puperonis.

Extras around the crust

How I roll..


Feed me Seymour session done.
Great white doggy shark breaching for tossed pieces done.

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I only eat $140 new york style brick oven pizza

With my little horsy on top bourbon

That sound like a pretty pricey turd...
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Bourbon and pizza????
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Go to airport.

Fly to Cordoba Argentina

Shoot until you get a concussion.

Eat great grilled meat and drink red wine until you fall asleep.

Get up the next day and repeat. All for about $500 per day (minus the flight. That's what FF miles are for)

Is that kinda like the King Ranch Edition of the El Camino?? Asking for a friend.

Sound like the name of the new Taco Bell super burrito 💩

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#connect-the-dots

Mrs. Geno would frown when I fed the hound some spensive NY brick oven pizza. I can't tell the difference tween them, the pizza-pizza place or one from the freezer.

LMAO @ great white breaching dog ands water based oil.

Thoughts on this field? There is a power line running north south along the east side of the road. Tall trees all the way around the north/east/south side and occasional trees here and there if I remember correctly.

Slumlord-9:11

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

SE corner just to the east of that lone tree by the bulge in that woodline on the SE slant of it
Shade and own the corner area somewhat if ya get their early enough.
Some other dude comes in talk to him about covering the west slope of that bulge on the west side of that line tree.
Or bring a friend.

It's all hit and miss and luck of the spot and how the birds are flying .

That lone tree might draw birds once they start getting shot at also

Only problem is your gonna have birds coming in over you from south and east, but that is offset by eyes on the feild to the north and being in shade.
Any spot on the west and north looks like a day in the sun and in your eyes.
Sitting on the east wood line.
Sun is gonna be on ya and espically in your eyes going down late in the day.

I would park my $57,000 12 passenger Eddie Bauer edition Bad Boy Buggy right here.
Drape a harbor freight shiny new ‘camo’ tarp over all of it. Make a side porch with some tent poles.

Have my chairs and a 40” Blackstone grill going, some Luke Bryant. (Even though it’s Luke Bryan) playing.

Sky bust birds in a 360 cresting over any far tree lines as come over the heads of other shooters

renegade50 - you da man. Thank you so much!

Slummy -

Im gonna be stuck with the kids opening day. Sally has a bridal shower. I’d like go upside her head.
Anyway,
Colton Jr has ADHD and Chase is somewheres on the spectrum. If’n ya know what I mean. He dont say much.

I’ve got a little portable sandbox and a ball pit for em to play in. Lord I hope Chase dont get to wanderin off.

That sounds like fun. Maybe. I like ball pits as much as the next guy but I'm too old/brokeup for em now.

WTF??? Why the hey'll can't
Charlamaine watch the tricycle motors?

Don’t forget you 276 qt Yeti covered in Salt life and YeeYee stickers full of iced down Michelob Ultras. And ranch water.


And set up a selfie booth. #ihunt

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LOL!!!
Red dot = Slumlord and the CMA,s with skittle fed pinger kids in tow.

Yellow dot = where you probably might wanta set up.
As far away as possibly from The Gatlin Bros music fest and pinger kids doing the curly shuffle in bush hogged sunflower.
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Slumlords nephew in law Kayden after a 2 pd bag of smarties and a 32 oz orange soda for lunch on a Dove field when he was 6 or 7.

Hey man.
Be a role model to those ET belly looking spaghetti arm boys across the street and bring them out Dove hunting.
They can go fetch our birds.
Get em a couple of bloodhound gang outfits.
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You still got that pic of Cletus and Momma from a couple yrs ago??
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Finally got a bit of training in. Got the thrower a year ago - the spine got injured about then so it sat. I unboxed it a few weeks ago and it came with a broken arm stop switch - had to wait for a replacement.











Video: https://imgur.com/GT7d7oG

Mrs. Geno's 50 year old Beretta 300 kicks way less than my O/U so I made it my new bird gun. I had never fired it. It needs a couple inches whacked off the stock, a proper recoil pad and maybe the barrel cut down to 25-26 and choke opened up a bit. Have to ask my gunsmith if that can be done - we'll see.



After 100 rounds of full bore 12 ga, I didn't want to shoot anymore.

Kinda lucky in a way... have a farm I hunt close to me. Couple hundred acres hay field. Split in the middle by a low area.

But, no other hunters to move the birds. Try several tree lines for shade and cover, but see birds flare off far sides.

I made an old TV antennae ,spray painted have assed camo. Put 8-10 clip-on decoys on it and a couple on the ground.

Set it out 15yds or so in front. Get a few birds to fly in to socialize.

Not like my old dove spot A mud hole with a small island and big willow tree on it. Big clay banks with lotsa gravel and a 50 acre pine

roost. When they are flying the mud hole would have dead birds sitting on top of the mud , pick up on the way out.

Lost that place . Owner built a house on the property and posted it.

Special delivery.

I never really considered decoys before but they work good down here. Guy two stands down on opening day last year limited out in two hours and his wife an hour later. They left and missed the best 2 hours we had that day. They were landing on his roost and his wife would shoot them off. Halfway through the season I was on a cut corn field that was huge - two dudes set up on the other side about 200 yards away and proceeded to shoot all afternoon. I saw birds but only shot once.

Sweet old Berreta man!!!👍👍👍

Hope they work for ya man.👍👍👍

Around here robo dove seems to flare away alot of birds 100,s of yds out at times.

Going tree rat hunting sat and sun then dove on the 1st.
Nice to have fall hunting season gearing up.
Summer sucks the root to me...

Dove hunting is screwed here with all the rain we are getting, but the rain is welcomed, we needed it bad.

The cats leave the tree rats on the porch for me to step on in the morning.

Presents to you to show their hunting prowess.
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It will probably thunder storm here like it always seems to do opening day at some point, get everything drenching wet then go away...
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Thank you sir. It replaced a remington model 11 made in 1926. It has gorgeous wood but weighs a ton and the old spine/knees/neck/shoulders/etc. are not up for it these days. I thought the o/u would fix that but it kicks a lot.


I fish a lot and like it warm - cold hurts. I'm still too far north for my taste. I love to shoot at birds though so have to deal with some cold.


Glad ya'll are getting some rain. Sorry about the mud.

Yeah, I see the same thing here. The first 2-3 years that I had a robo dove, it was a dove magnet but now it's more of a flaring tool.