Anyone Going Dove Hunting?

[BritChaser]

Sept. 1 is just around the corner, when dove season starts. Anyone going dove hunting? That evening I will be sitting happily by an overflow pond and a windmill on the high plains of western Kansas. Smiling just thinking about it.

 

[Matt D]

I will be sitting somewhere with my 7 year old daughter and 6 year old Springer. Can't wait. Hopefully we have some silage cut by then and a field or two they are working hard. One of my favorite times of the year for sure.

Matt D

 

[JayhawkJ]

I'll be knocking a few out of the air.

 

[parman]

dove hunting

Going down to my friend's farm in Eads, Co. Setting up beside a canal, sunflower field, and cottonwoods. Hope the action is fast and furious!

 

[moellermd]

Oh yea. I promised I would take my 5 year old hunting so we will see how that goes. Got a pond next to a field we will cut for silage so it should be good. Dove do make great table fair.

 

[3goldens]

Can't wait doves seem to be a bit short in supply though been doing a little scouting and no big bunches hitting fields yet.

 

[Rusty Trigger]

Yep, this will be the first hunt for Gavin. Looking forward to it.

 

[quail hound]

Yep we'll be out in a grapevine picking our shots so as to not educate the big flocks to early. Gotta have a dog in the vine or you'll lose close to half of them. Oh yeah I almost forgot how delicious they are, fried dove, grilled dove, dove fajitas, dove soup, I can't wait.

 

[henhenROOSTER!!!]

Not 100% sure on the opener...Moving to CO has caused me a brand new Sept 1st quandry: Dove or Blue Grouse??? I'm leaning hard toward grouse to start, but plan on at least one eastern plains combo wknd of morning-teal/aft-dove hunting with my son & his buddy sometime around mid-month (may squeeze a little early-season pheasant scouting in between)... :cheers:

Man, do I ever miss the consistent red-hot father/son El Paso & NM dove shoots my sons, all their friends & us dads used to have together year-after-year! I HATE all of you guys that have the ability to early-cut your own prime-located corn field...Tip: While you're at it, using WASTEful old-school corn-picking equipment greatly enhances the experience - I learned real quickly to look specifically for the Mennonite cornfields when I lived in PA!

 

[FCSpringer]

Have fun guys, I just have never gotten in to dove hunting. They just don't do it for me. I would like to go south and try that quail thing though.

 

[Spence]

I'll be out there somewhere, more of less to just get out and shoot a little, and get some feathers in the dog's mouth. I'm sick of fishing to cure my itch. Doves, early goose, hopefully some prarie chickens should tide me over for the next couple months until the opener.

 

[mnmthunting]

With the Millet, sunflowers and corn I should have a ton of doves. Only lasts about a week up here, doves head South early.

 

[RoosterTim]

I will be sitting by a watershed and waiting paste a couple for the grill. mmmm dove wraped in bacon. mmmm

 

[waynemorgan]

i will be out if this heat brakes, i want to take my new gsp but not at 105 in the shade

 

[kansasbrittany]

Dove hunting is a must for me too. Can't wait to be sitting beside the sunflower field when the sun comes up and by the roosts as the sun goes down. Not to mention the occasional cackle of a rooster. I love this place

Prarie chickens when it is time and if it is cool enough to run the dogs. I've not put much effort into early season hunts, walking them up on the hillsides. Spence and are going to give-er-a-go this time around.

 

[Gove County Britts]

looking forward to doing some dove shooting with ol kb this year and cooking some good grub and alot of bs to talk about

 

[jmac]

yup, sept 1 , in the am, will be limited out in 45mins. we call the place we hunt Argentina. Tooks 15 min, last year. bet it doesnt take much longer this year. 10 doves, a day, no more than 6 white wings in aggregate. dont hunt water holes until the 4th day of the season. collared doves are a free be.

you guy have a bigger limit ?

please share info.

 

[quail hound]

Same limit here, collars are freebies (and we have lots), except 10 doves any mix. We call our prime field little Argentina, and we don't need to hunt watering holes because there is irrigation water everywhere.

 

[M. R. Byrd]

We will hunt stock tanks and near roost areas and take a few in their flight patterns.

 

[henhenROOSTER!!!]

Will find out what the eastern CO farmfields & grasslands has to offer in the dove arena this year...

When I lived in NM for about 10 yrs there was a 15-bird limit & no problem filling it at will all season long! We used to pick & choose at our fancy between whitewings (bigger & better eating, but dumb floaters) and mourning (a lot more fun wingshooting, especially when rocketing & darting on a stiff tailwind)...got so spoiled we would even work on specific shot angles & ignore anything else that didn't present properly - in the heyday when my boys & their friends were growing up, we used to issue one box of shells per man/per hunt & have contests (figured if we couldn't limit w/25 shells apiece we didn't deserve one, going 15-for-17 against 15-for-19-or-21, ect.)...Returned years later & with only 1/2 day of scouting were soon in the motherlode again as usual, but all of us rusty-triggers supported the shotshell industry much more heartily with our shots-per ratio!!!

I see a lot of collared doves all over CO, but they are much more dispersed than mourners or whitewings - have never seen them bunched up red-hot over a fresh-cut wheat or corn field like mourners or whitewings...I miss the days of black-sky fields buzzing with them like flies on a carcass or a swamp full of mosquitoes!!!