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Aggravating Doves
#2373363
01/15/18 05:17 PM
01/15/18 05:17 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,094 Birmingham, AL
Wade
OP
10 point
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OP
10 point
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,094
Birmingham, AL
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I have had a bunch of doves around for a couple of weeks and just figured out today was the last day of the season. Anyway, I spent the afternoon trying to shoot them by myself. You would have sworn I was hunting turkeys. The bastages would literally fly around the corn field, light in trees 80 yards away, pitch down in the other end of th field. I walk down there, flush 75 birds, go to the other end, repeat a couple of times and then they circle up high and take off. Zip, nothing, not one decent shot. I should have covey shot the first time they flushed but I was wanting to get back to the tree line for cover. Suckers looked like pigeons. Amazing, glad early season birds are not that wary.
Don't give up, don't ever give up!
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Re: Aggravating Doves
[Re: Wade]
#2374668
01/16/18 02:32 PM
01/16/18 02:32 PM
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,504 Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,504
Montgomery
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Bet some Aldeer members would have been there on short notice to help ya out!
Dr. B
AKA: “Dr. B” Aldeer #121 8-3-2000 Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA Member of Team 10 Point 2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris 1938-2017 UGA Class of 1960 BS/MS Forestry LTJG, USNR
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Re: Aggravating Doves
[Re: jlbuc10]
#2378560
01/19/18 11:23 AM
01/19/18 11:23 AM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,052 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,052
Sylacauga, AL
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You could have called me and I would have helped you out. I've had that same situation before where I didn't really have enough birds to host a shoot, but didn't mind trying to kill a few by myself. If you get in that situation again in second season, I have had my best luck shooting birds like that in the morning. They are gonna come in there at daylight, and if you are there ahead of them you can get some shooting. I always try to leave some cover of some kind in a field; just a few corn stalks can help hide you. Hunting doves by myself is something I've always enjoyed. It becomes real hunting, instead of just shooting. I had fun last winter walking them up on cutover and shooting them like quail. I never killed but a few in one day, but it beat deer hunting. I've had a lot of good hunts over the years hunting with just one other person. You can get a lot of shooting even on a big field if you can run them towards each other. My dove season this year was pretty lousy. We just don't have many birds in the places I can hunt.
Last edited by poorcountrypreacher; 01/19/18 11:26 AM.
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