Leaving for Waco tomorrow

[MCgunner]

My old college buddy and I are opening the dove season again this year. It's a tradition we've been doing since we were freshmen at Texas A&M in 1971. He's got a new 100 acre place he says is gonna be good this year. He's got about 500 acres in 4 different farms and we also hunt his dad's 300 acres which is where we started those years ago. Some of it's in sorghum or corn. There are tanks to hunt. He says the birds are thick this year again.

Taking my camera if I can remember to use it. I don't own one of those fancy phones, just a plain cell phone, no cameras in it.

 

[jmr40]

Sounds like fun. I haven't been on a decent dove hunt in years.

 

[HoploDad]

Good luck. "Twas the night before dove hunt and all through the house, they were excited to see me go, especially the spouse!"

 

[Choctaw]

Good luck, sir!

 

[Patocazador]

Slay those buggers!
Our season doesn't open until the 26th. Can't wait.

 

[double bogey]

One of the few opening days I have missed in 50 years of dove hunting. I will get em this weekend though.

 

[MCgunner]

Well, I'm back. We had a couple of good evening hunts, but generally, it was slower than usual. I have some pix on my camera card of Molly the Wonder Dog making water retrieves and some of the set up, but will mess with that later. I was rather proud of Molly, has improved a LOT. This was her second season. We shot 27 birds first afternoon and 17 the next along with a few morning birds and we didn't lose a single bird primarily because of Molly. We're home now and she's already knocked out. We ran her ragged that first evening, LOL! Our evening hunt was a bust yesterday evening. Oh, well, got some good shooting out of the deal and got to work Molly, which really seemed to be more important to me than the shooting, though I hate it when I miss and disappoint her. LOL She can talk with those eyes....."WTH? You MISSED AGAIN!?":banghead:

 

[MCgunner]

My friend Larry watching for birds over the mojos...



Molly the Wonder Dog making one of many water retrieves...



Evening's bag on the tailgate...

 

[Patocazador]

No gators in that pond?

Early season here the gators are everywhere .. and active. I'm afraid to send my dog during teal season.

 

[MCgunner]

Nope, not around Waco and that's just a cattle tank near a creek in a pasture. The area is north of Waco near the town of West, the town where the fertilizer blew up some years back. Larry grew up on that farm outside West.

Gator season opens next weekend, I think, 'cause Larry's boy, Chris, always goes and he was talking about it. His mom's sister has property near Anahuac (east of Houston) and they hunt gator every year.

I won't take Molly to the Guadalupe delta during teal season. I know of two dogs that were lost to gators out there. They took a 13 footer off that area some years back that made the local paper. They sometimes close a pothole out there where a big gator lurks, but they're all holed up by November when the general duck season starts. I'm not really into teal, though I have hunted it, but it's just too friggin' hot and the skeeters are bad, just don't feel like duck season.

 

[red rick]

There is nothing in this world that I would rather be doing in September .

I rode up to my hunting club yesterday to see if they planted any corn this year . They didn't , so I enjoy all of the pictures and post I read hear .

 

[Patocazador]

Nope, not around Waco and that's just a cattle tank near a creek in a pasture.

Heck, here there are gators in almost every stock pond (excluding mine ) and creek and even show up in swimming pools.

 

[Sheepdog1968]

I can't hunt doves. When my wife's grandfather died, there was shortly after a dove cooing in the tree next to his room. Ever since, doves have a special significance for my wife and out of respect for her, I have made them off limits. Such is life. Lots of other birds for me to hunt.