Plates for planting sunflowers

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I had a 494 planter I used for years, but only for corn, soybeans, and grain sorgham. I had both plastic and steel plates, and I am pretty sure I gave them all to a friend of mine when I quit farming. I think a corn plate would be pretty close, maybe a little wide. If you had a set of steel plates, you could always braze them a little closer if you were splitting the seeds. If they were planting to thick, braze every other one shut. I would try and find a plate for large flat type corn kernels, and I think you would be ok. If plastic plates are all you can find, JB Weld would work as a filler I would think and the plastic would be pretty easy to work with.
They have used plateless planters for years now though, but you might be able to find sunflower plates somewhere.
Truthfully though, if I had small acreage I wanted just for dove hunting, I would probably just broadcast them and not plant them in rows. Just an idea.