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30 days till dove season!

Been going back and forth on when to schedule my knee surgery. The only logical solution I can come up with is mid September. I can rehab hopefully be set for grouse in late October early November.

March 1st. Gut it out this bird season, and recover before fishing season gets under way.


Good luck.

Best,
Ted

+1

SRH

Been trying to figure out when to have my right shoulder rebuilt and this time it will be many month before I get to have much fun because I have to not only do a total rebuild and then do the other one as soon as I rehab the first one. Been putting it off for several years and don't think I can do it much longer. Getting gold is not for sissies.

You can not miss opening day of Dove season in my books. I am not.

If you can still raise a gun with both hands well enough to shoot doves the surgeries can wait until after seasons are out, IMO, Jon. Some things are just worth putting up with some pain for a while, to enjoy. Dove shooting is one of them, IMO.

Hope you can hold out 'til next January/February, then get it done. If you need a real lightweight to use to make it easy on those joints I'll send you my .410 Yildiz to shoot 'til season is out. It only weighs 4# 14 oz. You'd be surprised at how well you'd be able to shoot it, as the mass in the gun is on the ends, making it swing like a much heavier and larger gun.

SRH

I can shoot from both sides. All I have to do when shooting from left side is close right eye because I am right handed and right eye dominant. Good luck.

All shooting requires is the pulling of a trigger. Hitting is another thing entirely.

What's your average on doves, or even clays, when you do that?

SRH

I am ambidextrous but shoot mostly right handed except pistols which either hand is fine. So shooting left handed is not a real problem. But it's my right arm is the problem when I elevate it just like you do when you put it on the fore end and swing the gun. The left shoulder is almost as bad as the right side. Stance and footwork are very different for the most part but that's easy to deal with when you setup. I have to use a small dot on my glasses to keep from cross firing with mixed eye dominance. Being able to use both sides has made life a lot easier. Think about using a hammer with either hand or a wrench in tight places.

I have several .410s and 28's to shoot dove with this Fall. Of course I'd be willing to buy more in the name of physical therapy if I could write them off my taxes as a medical expense. Don't think the IRS will see it my way somehow.

If I had a knee to have scoped I'd do it as soon as I could after opening day of dove season to get it healed up for the rest of hunting season. Heck for that matter I'd do it right now. I use to take a fellow in a wheel chair dove hunting for several years. He shot the birds and my lab would pick them up for him. I think he might have given her a little bone treat for her services. Her apatite was always off after that. Heat or too many bones?

Since the dove season is almost upon us, it seems to me that Stan should give us a report on his wild sunflower project. When he said he was planting wild seed he was getting from Texas I wondered how that would turn out. Bet the deer scarfed'em up soon as they broke the ground...Geo

I go in on the 8th to get my back injected with cortisone again (spinal stenosis) but after reading all of this, I feel like a whiney piker. Mr. Newbern is soooo-right, getting older isn't for sissies.