Dove Hunting this Year.

[Doco Overboard]

Anybody going?
I'm going to go out tomorrow afternoon. I had not actually been for some time so looking forward to it.
Another poster started a thread already but was for a paid hunt with reputable org. I think that got me motivated.
I would imagine places are getting difficult to find these days in most areas.
The weathers great so far and plenty of birds flying nearby me so may get some shooting in.
I need to go and make sure the plugs in my bird gun been checking a watermelon field on the other side of the river I can go to.

 

[StantonCree]

I’ve got two spots. If the fields aren’t cut you’re not really hunting just killing (unless you have a dog which I do not)

 

[delaware_export]

Yes. Leaving home at about 330, 2 hrs to the field.

looking like windy, heavy gusts where I’ll be, but don’t care.

mental health day!

opening day here, state / fed land, steel shot 7 required. Everyone is guaranteed a check … plug is in…

 

[pbharvey]

Tomorrow we are hunting resident geese, fishing for smallmouth, then driving an hour to shoot some doves.
We sometimes do a blast and cast but tomorrow is a blast and cast and blast some more.

 

[Doco Overboard]

I’ve got two spots. If the fields aren’t cut you’re not really hunting just killing (unless you have a dog which I do not)

Thats why you go to a watermelon field. If you cant find them, you shouldn't be there in the first place.
This isn't our first three decades even of migratory bird hunting around here.

 

[StantonCree]

Thats why you go to a watermelon field. If you cant find them, you shouldn't be there in the first place.
This isn't our first three decades even of migratory bird hunting around here.

Lol I know I saw you said watermelon fields. You’re a lucky guy! Corn and soy here, can’t find shit half the time.

 

[Cochise]

I should be somewhere in the sunflowers at the BCC IWLA tomorrow with my dog and a good friend. No idea what gun to take yet.
Then Sunday is a training day at Rappahannock Retriever Club in Remington VA - getting ready for duck season which is what counts, at least to me.

 

[Doco Overboard]

Lol I know I saw you said watermelon fields. You’re a lucky guy! Corn and soy here, can’t find shit half the time.

Maybe they just cut hay somewhere? They cut my side yard/field today and I thought damn I should just sit right there.
Might knock one of the boys new house's windows out though on accident down the road apiece.
Fuc it, at least I wont have to go far to charge my phone up to let him now.
Ill send him a bill for letting him put it there.

 

[delaware_export]

DON’T FORGET YOUR HIP NUMBERS!

sorry for the late PSA! Just got mine! Buried on the web site! But found eventually

good luck folks

 

[StantonCree]

Good luck to y’all today!

Bacon wrapped or jalapeño poppers?

 

[Doco Overboard]

DON’T FORGET YOUR HIP NUMBERS!

sorry for the late PSA! Just got mine! Buried on the web site! But found eventually

good luck folks

Yeah how about when the Hip permit was just a survey?
Its like 15 bucks now when I checked out I think!

 

[Bountied]

So I haven't hunted for doves since I was 17 when my dad lived on a 120 acre farm in Trappe. What is this HIP thing?

 

[Doco Overboard]

A solution looking for a problem.
That costs more than a two boxes of shells these days.
Initially it was used as a participatory harvest survey for improved management that turned into a mandatory measure.

 

[Doco Overboard]

3 and a rock dove. Woohoo!
I should have just stood by the truck!
When I walked out they were swarming all around it.
Tomorrow I'll stand over by the pivot where they're all pitching in.

 

[delaware_export]

i shot bad.

22 shots 4 down 2 found

clear cut strips vs standing wheat (I think) was 1/5 Or so and those things blend in so well

beautiful day, cloudy, cool

 

[Cochise]

a day outside is a good day. didn't shoot many birds but got sometime with a good friend, a good dog and a fun gun, bonus for paper shot shells which smell great.

 

[John from MD]

I’ve got two spots. If the fields aren’t cut you’re not really hunting just killing (unless you have a dog which I do not)

Sure you do, Cammie the wonder dog.

 

[StantonCree]

Sure you do, Cammie the wonder dog.

Yeah! I’m hearing folks shooting this morning on their farms in western HoCo. Most of the fields still have something in them but the hay fields! If rock digging was fruitful she would be a useful dog lol.

Post up some pics how did you all do?

 

[Doco Overboard]

Yeah! I’m hearing folks shooting this morning on their farms in western HoCo. Most of the fields still have something in them but the hay fields!

Post up some pics how did you all do?

Nothing yet I wont start till 12.

 

[StantonCree]

Nothing yet I wont start till 12.

I always evening dove hunted too. Well if anyone with a hayfield in western Howard wants a shooter I know a guy

My spots in MoCo and Upper Marlboro still have crops.