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In most states, the opening day of dove season is September 1st, only nine days away.
1. Which SxS shotgun will you use on opening day?
2. Do you usually shoot a round of skeet, trap, or sporting clays as practice sometime before opening day?
JERRY
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Altho' I don't get very excited by doves(too hot and too humid early on) its a tradition I don't want to miss!
Might just go squirrel hunting in the cooler woods instead.
...but if it is doves, my 28" barrel M/F Philly Fox AE 12g.
I've a portable claybird thrower that I'll give a go this weekend.
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I have invitations for the first three days of September. Early season the 28 VH Parker is gun of choice, then my fathers 20 Trojan and if the birds become educated toward the end of the season, one of the 12's comes out of the closet. One day last year I shot an O frame 20 hammered Parker with a 4 frame 10 as back up (fun).
Dove season is more exciting than Christmas for me.
Harry
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I'll be there with my boys. Sunflowers, water and roosting trees all close together. Dove breast with jalapeno, cheese wrapped with bacon and cooked on a wood fire...washed down with a cold beer after sundown.
Winchester Model 23, 20 gauge or maybe my Parker Repro .28 gauge if I am feeling real cocky!
Lowell it is too damn hot, but I love the tradition and fellowship more than I hate the heat!
Jim
Last edited by jjwag69; 08/22/07 07:48 AM.
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Damn, I just moved back to Pa and don't have a good place to go. I never missed it since I was a kid. I better get busy and try to find somewhere to go. I plan to use my new Fox 16 gauge.
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Harry, you are a dog!! First 3?? Still waiting to hear from the undertaker but I will make that one!!
I actually have an invite for a hunt here in AL that might have some promise. We open on the 15th here. We have been so dry that there is no telling what we might have. Hasn't been very good here the last few years.
A RBL and a 20ga 21 might get the duty this year!!
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Johan Ecker 16 gauge sxs hammer gun. Tight chokes.
Kevin:
Check out some of the state game lands around you or the ones up near Quakertown or Souderton. The state sometimes plants field crops on those game lands and the crops have been known to draw doves.
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Hey, if i can stand the triple digit heat of a Sept 1st dove opener down here in South Georgia, I don't know why you yankee boys are complaining. I'll be shooting an Ithaca NID 20...Geo
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We have had more doves here in Central Oregon than any year in the last 23 years. That being said, they tend to disappear as soon as the frosts hit and we have had one frosty night here already in the high desert. These frosts and subsequent frosts put the Northern states at a decided disadvantage to the Southern states in dove hunting. Oh well, they are just songbirds anyways 
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There have been more and more doves in this area (southern Ontario) every year for the past 25, but an open season for them - we can only dream.
Regards,
Bob
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