Who's getting ready for dove season?

[bud]

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Edited December 1, 2016 by bud

[Shug]

I like to soak mine in Coca cola for a couple hours to tenderize and remove the blood. Then I marinade them in Allego Marinade {It's not as salty as Dales} Then grill them up

[peejman]

Dales is just bottled saltwater with a little caramel coloring for appearance. 

Allegro is darn good stuff. The hot and spicy is my favorite. 

[felinesNfreedom]

Dales is just bottled saltwater with a little caramel coloring for appearance. 

Allegro is darn good stuff. The hot and spicy is my favorite. 

I do like the hot and spicy allegro.


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[Shug]

Besides that Allegro is made right here in Tennessee

[Will]

So. Williamson Co About 150 birds  hanging around at 8 AM this morning.  From Noon opener till 4 only about twenty birds went blasting through .

Edited September 2, 2016 by Will
No need info.

[Sidewinder]

Didn't get to go today... had to work.  Hope somebody limited out. Hope more people will chime in with reports. Like many, I didn't really have a place to go anyway. Maybe I'll get an invite later on in the season. I'll bet they were hard to hit today, with that additional tail-wind! I'll bet they were going by in afterburner!

[whiskey]

The annual Robertson Co lease field is just a few miles from my house. I usually hunt there, but this year there weren't any birds. I got an invite to a private field in Kentucky. We had a few birds, but it was a long slow day. 3 of us managed 18 birds. I'm hoping the birds find the Robertson Co field as there are two more hunt dates, Saturday and Monday.


"So he cocked both his pistols, spit in the dirt, and walked out in to the street."

[Handsome Rob]

I shot at a private field outside of Pikeville with 8 friends. None of us limited out, but we all got close. I managed 13. Best opener to date!

At 12 o'clock it was like someone had opened a cage. A flock of maybe 300 came through right on the whistle. We had great action right up until 4pm & then it just died.

There were 95 shooters all told & 14 of them hit their limit before 2pm. 

[BrasilNuts]

I went to a private field in Niota.  We got there at 3, didn't see many birds until around 5, then they came from everywhere.  I think there were about 20 hunters and only one didn't limit.

Edited September 3, 2016 by BrasilNuts

[Handsome Rob]

Dammit. Should've hung around for an hour.
8 openers & I've never hit my limit!

Sent from a mountain somewhere, using telepathy.

[Will]

TWRA Leased Field 8 Vance Lane Lebanon   On their site,anyone find it? drove the short  Vance La  400-500 range and did not see ant TWRA sign

or locate #8 ??

[deadeye111]

Hunted a harvested corn field north of Sikeston, Mo. My friend and I shot limit of 15 by 8:30 am opening day.  I used a pair of MoJo battery powered decoys and my friend used 1.  We were hunting near an irrigation pivot. The doves came to the decoys as well as a few small Hawks.  Try them if legal in TN. The decoys worked well for us and a pair is better than 1.  Yesterday I only got 12 doves by 9am but lost 2 in corn stalks that I couldn't find trying to shoot doubles.  Season is over for me. I cleaned shotgun and put it away. 

[bersaguy]

On ‎8‎/‎29‎/‎2016 at 8:24 PM, xsubsailor said:

 The doves are ready, they all left the fields and are in my front yard 

Thats funny right there but you are not the only one with doves in your yard..........  I have a flock that has camped out in my back yard for past 2 weeks. I feed the birds around here twice a day and I have a gravel driveway around the back of my house and every morning and evening there is about 25 to 30 doves eating on the driveway and then they go about a mile down to a creek for water and come back and roost in the loplolly pine trees in my neighbors yard. They have found a safe zone here..............lol.

[shotgunshooter]

Anyone do any good this weekend? I shot a box of shells and killed 8 birds. The birds just weren't flying where I was hunting. I have a terrible time adjusting from clays to birds because of the targets always being on one plane. If I can see the bird I can kill it but the issue I have is locking onto a bird because of how the birds dip, duck, and dive. I also forgot how much better I shoot with a gun that fits me. 

[bud]

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Edited December 1, 2016 by bud

[Omega]

1 hour ago, bud said:

I'll let you do the math, but I killed 10 and they cost me about $1.75 a bird. 

It was a great time with family and friends though, and all the good shooters had at or near their limit, while shooting far fewer shells than I did.

Ha, you did good; I would probably average a box of shells per bird if I was lucky.  Seem to remember getting more feathers than birds.  I do want to find a nice field to go to though, I miss dove hunting.