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I walked outside this morning...slight breeze out of the north....and there it was.
All my senses suddenly shot to full alert.....it smelled like ...

Dove

Time to buy a few cases of shells, bust a few clays to warm up.

Dove season is 6 weeks away.

Smoke - quiverring.
 
Smoke,

Don't bother with the shells. I spoke to the international dove migration council this morning and have it on good authority that the Migration will stop in Colorado this year.

Sorry but it appears that we get all the shooting this year rather than just a few hot days as they pass by.

:evil:

Good luck
 
I've shot more than 250 dove in the last 6 months. With the winter rains that we had this year the doves don't seem to want to head North as much. They are like flies out here around the airfield.
 
I've started seeing more doves here recently. We are dry, dry, dry in a severe draught but my neighbor just put in a new pond and no grass growing around it, further out the waterways are pounded pretty flat by the heavy equipment and its looking real "dovey". Neighbor has graciously agreed to let me hunt new pond! Sept 01 opener. :D
 
I've shot more than 250 dove in the last 6 months.
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:what: :confused: :what:

I think the game warden might frown on that around here....

Was out with the kids the other day and flushed some out of the croton.
Always a few local dove hanging around but we need a couple of northers to
bring them down here usually.

Locals seem to be more plentiful than in years past...hope thats a sign (and not just wishful thinking)

Monahans...here I come.

Think I'll go dig out my bags and see if there are some left over feathers for me to fondle.

Smoke
 
think the game warden might frown on that around here
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Nice to have the US Game and Fish on your side. We have a depredation permit allowing us to take up to 400 doves per year with the option to increase the numbers with 1 phone call. :D

Something about airplanes and birds that don't get along around an airfield. ;)
 
Think I'll go dig out my bags and see if there are some left over feathers for me to fondle.
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When I was a teenager, I got all happy-excited about dove season (like I always do around late August), and got an Outers trap, and practiced a fair amount with Mom's 20 gauge 1100 (which I hunted with a LOT), and happily got up early on Labor Day to go hunting. I dug in the back of my closet for my bird-hunting vest, which had the twin pockets for shells, loops on each side for ready shells, padded shoulders and a rubberized game bag on the back. Because I had put the vest up after the last hunt of the year 10 months earlier, I had pushed it in the back end of the closet. It was smashed hard against the wall, pinching the game bag flat and closed. I pulled it out of the closet, and was greeted with a HORRIBLE smell.

Oops! Looks like I had missed one of the birds in corner of my game bag before putting up the vest for the winter. :scrutiny:

Boy, that vest was stanky. Had to cut off the game bag. Phew.
 
Lennyjoe - nice deal you've got there. I've got one similar, but we only see geese, coyote, turkey and deer. We've got flocks of swallows, but as you probably know, trying to do anything with them is just about impossible, I'd need a punt gun to deal with them properly, plus we have to buy our own shells so I'd go broke.
Only problem with this deal is having to dispose of the remains, not that I want to take the chance on explaining a deer in my car in July anyway...
 
I know of some bases that take the deer to process and then to the homeless shelters. You can get approval from the state game and fish folks for such offerings.
 
Nathaniel Green-

Whereabouts in TX are you, and can you travel? There's some pretty good dove hunting on public lands. I hunt in the Big Bend Area- Elephant Mountain, Black Gap- lots of birds flyin'.
 
I'd love to be able to take a poke at them. When I lived in Texas (1968-69), it was great fun in the desert around El Paso when they came into the stock tanks for a drink. Lots of shooting, not much hitting.
In Michigan, they are songbirds and even though they sit on the wires and poop all over my just washed car, I can't touch them :banghead: . They started having a limited season in the southern part of the state adjoining Indiana (where they are civilized and have a season) but who knows how long it will last. Wimpy people come out of the woodwork whining about the pretty birds being butchered. Same people think that deer are endangered here :rolleyes: - where we had ~65,000 car/deer accidents last year.
 
I have no desire to get up early in the morning and go hunting these birds. If you guys knew how many I have taken in the last week you would be amazed.

Lets just say I have 225 rounds left out of 500. :D
 
So you got what? Five birds?
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Touche.

Actually, I have burried 200 in the last 3 weeks. Its fun to let them line up and knock 2 out with 1 shot. :D

As for recipes, poppers are the best. Jalapeno halved, dove breast (deboned) inserted and wrapped with a piece of bacon. Toss it on the grill and roll it around a bit until the breast is done. Grab a cold Tecate and let the fun begin.
 
Monahans...here I come.

Dove hunting capitol of the world.

There's no better place than a windmill pond next to a wildflower patch two miles from the next water hole.

Birds are easy to find on the sand, too.
 
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