Doves?

dovehunter · #1 09-07-2009, 07:09 AM

fabsroman:

We experienced that same cool spell you mentioned last week. A couple of days it never got out of the 60s - really unusual weather for us this time of year. That may very well have had something to do with the lack of doves on opening day. In all fairness though I must admit that Saturday I was hunting a farm on which no corn had been cut. Today I will be hunting (where I should have gone Saturday) a farm on which probably 1/2 to 2/3 of the corn has been cut. I've got another place that has field of about 4-5 acres planted in sunflowers. That's one I will definitely be watching closely once it's cut. Things have got to get better. They couldn't have been much worse.

dovehunter · #2 09-08-2009, 10:54 AM

I hit lotto yesterday and got my limit in just a couple of hours. Birds were flying everywhere and (for a change) I was able to hit them on a consistent basis. It was one of those (at least for me) rare days when everything just seems to go right.

fabsroman · #3 09-09-2009, 10:52 PM

I need one of those rare days myself. Glad to hear you had success.

multibeard · #4 09-10-2009, 03:49 AM

When the dove season went on the ballot a few years ago I knew that we would lose.

Alot of the hunters of the state woud not even support it. You can not beat the millions of idiots in the Detroit area of the state that have no clue to the real world. They think that the meat they eat was grown in those packages in the meat case.

They year we did have a season on the southern border counties, we were hunting a 5 acre wheat field for geese up north that had just been overseeded with alfalfa. It was a dove hunters dream. There had to be 500 doves feeding in the field.

To far for me to drive to Indiana for a chance to shoot dove.

dovehunter · #5 09-10-2009, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by multibeard

When the dove season went on the ballot a few years ago I knew that we would lose.

Alot of the hunters of the state woud not even support it. You can not beat the millions of idiots in the Detroit area of the state that have no clue to the real world. They think that the meat they eat was grown in those packages in the meat case.

They year we did have a season on the southern border counties, we were hunting a 5 acre wheat field for geese up north that had just been overseeded with alfalfa. It was a dove hunters dream. There had to be 500 doves feeding in the field.

To far for me to drive to Indiana for a chance to shoot dove.

I feel for you multibeard. If I couldn't hunt doves here in Virginia I swear I believe I would move. Our problem here in Virginia (though not as bad as yours) is not being able to hunt at all on Sundays. I firmly believe that the continuation of this absolutely stupid law is due in large part to hunter apathy. I think if enough of us complained long enough and loud enough that the General Assembly would have to listen. Maybe in a few years. I know our Va. Dept. of Game & Inland Fisheries has been looking at a number of "test the waters" type plans to place before the legislature to at least get Sunday hunting's foot in the door.