View Full Version : New Dove Season, More Days= Less Birds a Day
Fish-Bait
07-11-2007, 02:34 PM
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070711/NEWS01/70711014
HA has the new season posted. I like dove season. I put my rods down for a few days and me and the Lab and the Youngun' bust some skeet and then some birds and have a little barbecue.
I have already noticed a pretty good amount of birds around the gravel pits in the evenin's. Hope it's a good opener!
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wilebill
07-11-2007, 02:45 PM
I love to dove hunt, too, but I don't know of any places around here to go so we usually wind up going somewhere around Pelahatchie at the BIL's place.
58ford
07-11-2007, 02:53 PM
I spread bird seed in the back yard, open the back door a crack & nail 'em with a scoped air rifle.
I like 'em beer battered & fried, sauteed in butter with mushrooms, or baked with garlic & onions.
Fish-Bait
07-11-2007, 03:02 PM
Ain't many gonna stop shootin' at 12 if dey flyin' dat good.
You are right! Those feds like openin' day of dove season. I think they ship em' in here all the way from Alaska just to write tickets. Now shootin' 200 birds in a day is overkill. But hey, 15-20 for a couple of days is good. Who wants to shuck out 40 birds anyways?
bpitt
07-13-2007, 03:03 PM
Look at it this way, Fishbait, you might actually be able to say that you've reached bag limit! Twelve birds is easier that 15! LOL!!!
Anyway, we got us a couple of spots we dove shoot on. One will be this years first time on it. Last year we hunted over the old garden spot, had about 6 people show up. We ended up with about 32 birds, and a lot of raggin'. My youngest bro-in-law and me got the most, he had a cousin with a brand spankin' new Browning BPS, all hotshot and everything, didn't bust a single bird and shot like 10 boxes!! We rode his a$$ for a while on that one! This year we're getting access to about a 25 acre field. We gonna do the dove shoot, and then plant some of it for deer. I'll let you know if we have 'vacant' spots come opening day
I don zackly know why dey did dat. Less birds? Crap, you drive all de way to de Delta, like Belzoni, for a long weekend hunt and you spend som mucho dinero. De dang dove's natural lifespan is barely over a year, anywho. They hatch, grow to mating age, screw, lay eggs, hatch a clutch of their own, and die of natural causes shortly, thereafter. It ain't like we gonna kill off the seed birds as bad a shot as most hungover Dove hunters are.
Dem sons-a-britches jest want another excuse to wrote chu som $pensive tickets. Ain't many gonna stop shootin' at 12 if dey flyin' dat good. JMHO, and I'll prolly get busted if dey is real coy feds.
* Maybe the Ms. Wildlife and Game commission is trying to build the dove population up so they can knock off the measely deer population we have. :smt118
Holler back if it all works out. I got a few pastures I hope to get a late cutting of hay off. Might work something out but I haven't pulled the trigger in years.
Natural Sunshine
07-13-2007, 03:36 PM
I like to dove hunt...usually find some friends that invite me...but I look forward to deer season!!! Love that!!! (I like to fish too)
The woman population is improving around here ...
HanSolo39482
07-13-2007, 04:23 PM
Deer season is my first love. I can't wait until the fall season arrives.
Ande'
07-14-2007, 12:57 AM
A few people i know (hubby included) don't actually go to a dove hunt, its more like a dove drunk. The friday night before they are all drinking and shooting skeet. Its ATF (alcohol, tobacco and firearms all together) at its finest. Saw a few that passed out in the dove fields before. Great parties up in the delta. They through a party for anything, and party hard.
Fish-Bait
07-14-2007, 07:41 AM
A few people i know (hubby included) don't actually go to a dove hunt, its more like a dove drunk. The friday night before they are all drinking and shooting skeet. Its ATF (alcohol, tobacco and firearms all together) at its finest. Saw a few that passed out in the dove fields before. Great parties up in the delta. They through a party for anything, and party hard.
Guns + Alcohol= Accident.:smt118
bpitt
08-08-2007, 08:27 AM
We fixin' to bush-hog our field in another week or so...................come'on Sept. 22...........
I used to really enjoy this in the past. Several of us with places would gather up and jump from one place to the next during the day to keep the birds moving. I was a pretty dead eye shot back then especially with this long barrel pump I had but the best part for me was just the visiting.
58ford
08-08-2007, 11:51 AM
I know most folks like a long barrel for doves, but personally the best I've done is with an 18" barrel pump. I find I can get it to my shoulder & on the bird quicker than a longer barrel & it groups fine at the distances I usually get 'em in the air. It may just be me, but I get more birds with a short barrel.
Well, my fun with the long barrel was fkng with my buddies. A bird would come over the tree tops in a larger field and I could pick them off before they really got in range for the shorter barrels. I'm sure they were on the verge of shooting me, at least they said so. :D
Fish-Bait
08-10-2007, 01:53 PM
I had this Rem.1100-20 gage that had a weird choke/suppressor deal on the end of it. I bought it for 150 bucks and sold it for 150 bucks about 3 years later. I could actually tear their ass up with that thing. For some reason I could hit em' almost every time. Way up or down low. Comin' straight at me, goin' away. It didn't matter. I kick myself to this day for lettin' that thing go. I also had a Franchi lightweight. I sold it to. I am such a dummy sometimes.
bpitt
08-10-2007, 09:27 PM
Such a dummy sometimes? My current set-up is a Mossberg 500, the turkey gun. But, I've got a modified choke I slap in at to dove shoot with. I did good this last season with it, so I figure I'll try it again this season.
I bested everyone else last year with it, so why not? It's got kinda a short barrel, but I like it. It was easy to maneuver in the standing cornfield last year.
Fish-Bait
08-11-2007, 12:18 AM
Such a dummy sometimes? My current set-up is a Mossberg 500, the turkey gun. But, I've got a modified choke I slap in at to dove shoot with. I did good this last season with it, so I figure I'll try it again this season.
I bested everyone else last year with it, so why not? It's got kinda a short barrel, but I like it. It was easy to maneuver in the standing cornfield last year.
I am callin' THE LAW.:smt118:-D
kevin
08-11-2007, 12:46 AM
I Use to love Dove Hunting well hunting of any kind Does anyone know someone that wouldn't mind someone hunting on their property. I gave up my huntin Cabin and membership up around the little Sunflower in the delta.Any clubs in the area???
Fish-Bait
08-11-2007, 08:31 AM
I Use to love Dove Hunting well hunting of any kind Does anyone know someone that wouldn't mind someone hunting on their property. I gave up my huntin Cabin and membership up around the little Sunflower in the delta.Any clubs in the area???
There was one in the paper wantin' members. It was over in Waynesbore I think. Kevin there are alot of public place around if you don't feel like paying alot. Just go to www.mdwfp.com (http://www.mdwfp.com) and look up the places around here like Chickasawhay Game Management area. It does help if you specifically call the wardens and talk to them about it.
bpitt
08-11-2007, 12:47 PM
I am callin' THE LAW.:smt118:-D
Call the law, as I've broken none. It is legal to hunt with a turkey gun, as long as it is plugged, and it is, and I use appropriate ammo, and I do. Also, one can hunt over a cornfield, as it is part of the agriculture process. What one may NOT do is distribute corn for the sole intent to bait. Our corn was planted, in rows, for harvesting, thus, I was legal. Ask any game warden. Trust me, I know my laws.
All this talk has made me want to get out my gun and renew my license.
I've got a Remington 12 gauge 870 pump with raised rib sites that originally came with a longer barrel that I had cut back to 24" and had a Cutts Compensator put on it. 22"? 24? Anywho, it finally came out to 28" with everything. Not a new gun anymore but one I really like.
bpitt
08-11-2007, 01:01 PM
It's fun just to shoot sometimes. I head down to the range outside Brooklyn and shoot every now and then. We used to go out to Camp Shelby and shoot on their ranges, but not since 9/11.
I didn't know y'all had one down there. Let it cool off a bit and let's hook up and go down one afternoon.
bpitt
08-11-2007, 01:12 PM
Yeah, there's a 100 yard range in the Desoto National Forest just east of Brooklyn on what they call (ironically) the New York Road. It used to be kept up a little nicer than what it is now. They used to have garbage cans, but somebody stole them. But, it is a place to go and do some shooting. I typically take the .22, my shotguns, and my .270. I check my scope on the .270 and plink away with the .22. Guns rock, I just don't own enough, ya know?
Fish-Bait
08-12-2007, 07:38 AM
Call the law, as I've broken none. It is legal to hunt with a turkey gun, as long as it is plugged, and it is, and I use appropriate ammo, and I do. Also, one can hunt over a cornfield, as it is part of the agriculture process. What one may NOT do is distribute corn for the sole intent to bait. Our corn was planted, in rows, for harvesting, thus, I was legal. Ask any game warden. Trust me, I know my laws.
I was just hackin' on ya.:smt118:-D
bpitt
08-12-2007, 12:36 PM
Yeah, I know, now go catch some fish.
Fish-Bait
08-12-2007, 01:01 PM
Bite me.:-D
Y'all have gotten my mind on sauteed dove breasts, shame on you, I may get the gun out this afternoon and clean it.
Talked to the hay guy yesterday, he said he may get over to cut next week.
Fish-Bait
08-12-2007, 05:34 PM
Dang, I don't think anyone has mentioned eatin' em. I could prolly down a 12 pack and about a breast a beer....wow...breast, beer, it don't get no better than that.
Fish-Bait
08-12-2007, 05:55 PM
Did I ever tell ya'll bout that time I run from the possum POlice? hehehe...
Fish-Bait
08-12-2007, 06:53 PM
They called me on my cell phone (the GW's). I had been out of town for awhile maybe a week or so. Well, I had helped prep that field and everything was legal as an eagle.........til' the day I got back (which I found out with a niece little piece of paper) while I was "out" seems that the birds got a little slim and the "group" thought it needed a little spice to go along with the natural watering hole and the gravel pit..............
To make a long story short. I found out about an hour after we had been huntin'. I called another hunter that had killed the crap out of em' (He was about 500 yds away. I don't move from my spot, and if you do you might get an assload of birdshot)....I had only killed 3, only saw about 7 or 8 that were shootable, plus I was havin' a helluva time keepin Sugar (http://www.myhattiesburg.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=84&pos=0) from steelin' them other boys birds.....that's when he told me the chops did the trick....I was like Oh shiite......and I was right. I was just out of sight when the phone rang........dang it, sometimes I just don't want to do the right thing even if I thought I was to begin with.........But I took it like a man.
I am still a little pissed about that ordeal.........dammit.:smt118:smt118:smt118:smt118
Fish-Bait
08-12-2007, 08:44 PM
I tinks Schmuck and Sugar coulda' been team mates!
I've always been a long-range shooter like Guru, using a 28" mod. 1100 mag. It is deadly on long-range birds. I'm thinking about trading it off as it's gotten too barrel heavy for me since both my rotator cuffs went south.
This year, I be switching over to a much lighter 20 ga 870 and will just have to be patient about picking my shots. Right now, it patterns like a rifle. That is if I can get the Turkey choke out of it and install a modified. Anyone have any tip about lossening a choke thats been in a barrel for 12 years? Only thing I can think of is to put the muzzel down in a pint of KrolOil for a week.
* Try some PB Blaster on it.
58ford
08-13-2007, 09:42 AM
I've always been a long-range shooter like Guru, using a 28" mod. 1100 mag. It is deadly on long-range birds. I'm thinking about trading it off as it's gotten too barrel heavy for me since both my rotator cuffs went south.
This year, I be switching over to a much lighter 20 ga 870 and will just have to be patient about picking my shots. Right now, it patterns like a rifle. That is if I can get the Turkey choke out of it and install a modified. Anyone have any tip about lossening a choke thats been in a barrel for 12 years? Only thing I can think of is to put the muzzel down in a pint of KrolOil for a week.
I don't know whether this is a good idea or not, but I've seen it work before & didn't seem to harm the gun: soak the muzzle in WD 40, set the gun outside on a hot day until the barrel is nearly too hot to touch, then rub an ice inside the muzzle causing the choke tube to contract & become easier to remove.
bpitt
08-14-2007, 06:42 AM
Hawkeye, get a hold of somebody out there at Camp Shelby. They used to use this stuff called Break Free. That stuff would loosin' anything!
bpitt
08-14-2007, 06:45 AM
I thought dove wheat was legal, i.e., your top sowing a crop, right?
Fish-Bait
08-14-2007, 07:17 AM
This was found on the US fish and wildlife website. It explains crop manipulation and baiting in detail.
http://www.fws.gov/le/pdffiles/Dove_hunting_baiting.pdf
bpitt
08-20-2007, 05:00 PM
I got off the phone with MDWFP, we can top sow wheat per normal ag practice. I.e., disc the soil and top sow. The warden told me that there had better be no tire tracks on the soil, though. I.e., seed was sown via tractor or 4-wheeler with spreader, not from the back of a pickup. I really don't see where that matters, that's what he said. We gonna bush-hog the field this Saturday.
Fish-Bait
08-20-2007, 07:50 PM
The birds are here. I saw a crapload of them this afternoon in our gravel pit. When I drove up in my driveway there was 6 or 7 drinkin' from my goldfish pond. I even saw to of those big ones...the ones that have the white tails and stuff. Twice the size of the Mourning dove.
bpitt
08-21-2007, 07:01 AM
I think those are called European Collared Doves, I've been told that one can harvest them, however, the MDWFP likes to know how many you get. They are not native here, and I think they're trying to keep up with their expansion, etc.
Fish-Bait
08-21-2007, 08:13 AM
I think those are called European Collared Doves, I've been told that one can harvest them, however, the MDWFP likes to know how many you get. They are not native here, and I think they're trying to keep up with their expansion, etc.
I have seen these things on the coast for years now. I got to hunt a field in Hurley back in highscool. I got 2 of em' that day. They are just under a cornish hen in size. Pic of a collared dove.
bpitt
08-21-2007, 12:35 PM
Just as long as they eat good, I don't care!
Fish-Bait
08-24-2007, 01:21 PM
The smaller southern zone consists of just that area south of U.S. 84 and east of Mississippi 35. The proposed seasons:
# North zone: Sept. 1-23; Oct. 6-27; Dec. 22-Jan. 15.
# South zone: Sept. 22-Oct. 14; Nov. 10-Dec. 1; Dec. 22-Jan. 15.
The proposal must be resubmitted for federal approval, and the state commission can issue its final notice at its August meeting.
It looks as though they have had the meeting and the seasons (http://www.mdwfp.com/Level1/NewsRoom.asp?ID=370) are set.:smt023
Fish-Bait
09-14-2007, 10:40 AM
8-days People.....8 days....I don't think I can stand it. My neighbor (secret location) ha 300-400 birds (looked like it anyway) In his field and on his powerline yesterday.
It's just too bad they have to fly over my place first....heheheheee....nah. He already invited me over! gotta break out the 1100 this weekend and pop a couple of skeet!
big john
09-14-2007, 11:17 AM
I like to go down to the train depot and hunt pigeons.Those rocks along the tracks are real good for bringin em down,deeeeeeeelishhhhh.
gonefishin
09-14-2007, 03:12 PM
8-days People.....8 days....I don't think I can stand it. My neighbor (secret location) ha 300-400 birds (looked like it anyway) In his field and on his powerline yesterday.
It's just too bad they have to fly over my place first....heheheheee....nah. He already invited me over! gotta break out the 1100 this weekend and pop a couple of skeet!
I'm ready for the smell of gunpowder. Hope to get me lab trained to bring em to me this year.
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