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Sept. 6th is the kick off for my shotgun season and I cant wait..but what to shoot, My friend and I are going to bring a
Thomas Wild 12bore, Fox Sterlingworth 16, LC Smith 16, Fox Sterlingworth 20, Ithaca flues 20, a Twin Ports 12bore hammer damascus (weighs a ton but hits like a ton of bricks) and a couple of my buds, 20 bore "brit" guns.. I think we will give each one 30 minutes each! What to shoot!
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Chux, you hitting the popcorn fields on the north side of town?
I got back from Argentina a couple of weeks ago so I am not as anxious as usual. Probably will be out in Madison somewhere on the 6th!!
Chris
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Unfortunately, I am in Alabama South Zone so I won't be shooting dove until October. I may, however, visit some plantations in Albany, GA to get in on some action a little early.
Adam Stinson
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I can hardly wait myself. I wait for them to collect by the dozens under the bird feeder in the back yard, then I shoot them with my pellet gun, send the dog out the front door around the house to retreive them and bring them back around to the front. Then I clean it and get another one. I can have my supper in about an hour or so. Plus, thinning them out keeps 50 doves from sitting on my deck all winter pooping all over the place. Kills two birds with one stone....er, pellet. Lot cheaper, too.
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Dove season starts on the 1st of September here in New Mexico. With the incursion of the collared dove there really is no limit until you get 15 of either mourning or whitewing. Life is good.
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Chris, I really am not sure where I will hunt this year, Limestone or the popcorn field. Last year the popcorn field was not very good due to the drought. Whats in Madison?
Jimmy, I think that takes the fun out of shooting old doubles, but hey yours sounds like a plan also.
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eurasian  mourning  white wing  Pete
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You are indeed lucky- the PETA numbnutz and the Bible-thumpers (bird of peace and all that crapola) outvoted us 70/30 two years ago for a legal dove season- had a tentative one- lasted about as long as a fart remains in a wind tunnel- Do you have to use steel shot- as doves are migrants? I have a "newer" double that is great on barn pigeons (as was its predecessor) 12 ga. 30" tight chokes- and I see doves on the dairy farms where I shoot pigeons- but they are "Verbotten"- and if my gunning Hero- the late Nash Buckingham- says they are the greatest gunning target awing- I'll believe him (with divers from a layout boat in a heavy chop with a crosswind second- those I know a little about-bring lotsa shells- RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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A 12g is a lotta gun for a little dove. You might give that new Aguilla shorty 12g 5/8oz shell a try on them. It patterns like a pancake.
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Chux, I think I can get an invite or two back on the farms around Greenbriar. they are already working on some corn. Might be OK. if they really get harvesting, there will be way too many choices for the birds.
CB
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