Stan, what a great idea for a thread! I hope Dave will allow it to remain here in the main forum because what you are doing is of particular interest to those of us in the dove shooting states. My friends and I do the same sort of thing here in deep south Ga and comparing your methods to ours will be fun, especially so with the pictorial record of your progress.

Your opinion regarding the fact that some fields attract birds year after year and others similarly prepared don't goes right along with my own experience. I've always figured it was the "recipe" of the soil that caused it, but it may be instead that the birds just remember the good spots...Geo