I would like to thank those Panhandle guys ,Joe, Mike et al for the cooler temps and the big flight of Northern Doves they have recently sent us here on the Southern Rolling Plains.....
I was out of state, ideling away at a Flyer shoot over the weekend and delighted to return to the ranch to find the highlines sagging under the weight of new migrants....

I have given them ample opportunity to humilitate me completely for the last three days ,but I remain undaunted and am going out the door now, to a feild across the road from the headquarters, where I will again try to salvage a little of my self respect with a F&F 20 bore....
It is the beginning of the BEST time of the year.....

You betcha...

Joe and I are due no credit. We shot all the ones that flew by us.

:-))

Been a good dove year near Amarillo
and hopefully the big doves will
come down from UP NORTH soon
Mike

I live in North Carolina and wonder if anybody close by have shot any of the Euroasin Doves?

Ours are getting ready to leave. Some nice big, fat, juicy, ones. Happy hunting.

In west central Ohio, I am still waiting. They must have went west of us. So far only the local birds seem to be here. Dove hunting is just way too much fun. Glad you have the chance to have all this fun!

The Euro-trash has not been around here or if they have everyone has been missed. With my son and others we have killed and recovered well above a thousand birds with no Eurp birds yet. I understand that they tend to stay in town areas and are less often seen where dove are shot.

Mike,

I have killed 4 or 5 of them already (during the early season) here in Georgia. 'Cose I don't know if that was what you meant by "close by".

All my best, SRH

Out here in far west TX we have seen/shot a lot of Eurasians. I would say more than half of what recovered are Eurasians.

In Tulsa, OK on opening day 10/16 doves I shot were Eurasian

Lots in Ks. as well, we focused on them one day and shot nothing but..

Opening day in south GA I shot a limit of mourning doves and then concentrated on Ringnecks for another half hour. Picked up 3, but my last shot was two crossing that I expected a scotch double on and only dropped one.

Ringnecks were maybe 10% of the mourning dove numbers on the corn/sunflower field we shot. The field was close to town which probably accounted for the ringneck numbers...Geo