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Reports from the landowner 200 miles West are dismal at best. So I picked up a few boxes of clays to give the French girls some trigger time. Clay or feathers, can't shoot 'em inside the house- so the dog and I go tomorrow for a few days of patient vigil and star strewn nights.
Mike
Tolerance: the abolition of absolutes
Consistency is the currency of credibility
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My youngest son Ross and I will open the season tomorrow here: https://youtu.be/OKKxbOks6l8stA little on the plush side, lol, but easily our best alternative. Price isn't that bad, actually. Breakfast @ 5 am, shoot that morning, lunch, then afternoon shoot, $160 a head. I've spent more and gotten less trying to prepare a field. As much as I spend a year on registered SC tournaments, this is nothing. I use the term "shoot" because it ain't "huntin', it's shootin'... JR
Last edited by John Roberts; 08/31/18 10:30 AM.
Be strong, be of good courage.
God bless America, long live the Republic.
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I had no idea Mississippi had prairies. Slick looking place...Geo
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I had no idea Mississippi had prairies. Slick looking place...Geo George, get on Google Earth and zoom out, look at Mississippi and Alabama. You can see the "Black Belt" of black prairie soil that runs from roughly Tupelo in a broad, counter-clockwise arc down to just east of Montgomery. Black farming soil, limestone, cedars, cottonwood, bodock, scrub oak. Great for game. The term "Black Belt" has other connotations as well because of the plantation farming that was there in the 1800's. JR
Last edited by John Roberts; 08/31/18 04:04 PM.
Be strong, be of good courage.
God bless America, long live the Republic.
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My youngest son Ross and I will open the season tomorrow here: https://youtu.be/OKKxbOks6l8stA little on the plush side, lol, but easily our best alternative. Price isn't that bad, actually. Breakfast @ 5 am, shoot that morning, lunch, then afternoon shoot, $160 a head. I've spent more and gotten less trying to prepare a field. As much as I spend a year on registered SC tournaments, this is nothing. I use the term "shoot" because it ain't "huntin', it's shootin'... JR That's not bad as long as it's not a Le Mans start to the stands jamming as many folks as they can into the field. A civilized drawing of stands is what I like where we shoot. I assume the membership is private and this is an additional cost to the membership fees.
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61 years ..............well done! You'll do well with the M and IM, I feel sure. We've got the ECDs here, too, but they mostly hang around buildings on the farm, venturing into the fields to feed, then returning. They are much less afraid of humans than mourning doves. Do you get whitewings in huntable numbers?
I look forward to dove season more now than I did as a kid and an adolescent. The guns just add so much more dimension to the sport, understanding choke and loads, and how they work together, and matching the gun to the game and circumstances. Knowing some of the history of the old ones gives it all even greater allure. What a treat it is to take a limit with a gun on it's 100th birthday!
It's almost time to resurrect the hunting pic thread that Greg began many years ago.
Hot dog! SRH
Stan, I have not seen any white wings around here in quite a while. Mourning doves, and now mostly ECD's.
Perry M. Kissam
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This is it, boys. The long awaited, anticipated, contemplated and prognosticated opening day shoot. I gave thanks to my Maker this morning for leaving me here another year, to revel in His creation and enjoy the shooting I so look forward to each fall and winter. My calendar does not begin on New Year's Day. It begins with the first Saturday of September.
Best wishes to all who will take the field today, and especially to those for whom reading about it, and seeing pictures, must now suffice. You are remembered.
Beautiful place, John. I hope you and Ross have a great time together. Report on it, plz. Maybe some pics of the bird field?
SRH
Last edited by Stan; 09/01/18 07:55 AM.
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Good hunt to all. Enjoy friends and family. Please make sure to see a youngster or youngest family member has a great time. Everyone’s goal should be to look at a young shooter and think I helped you start down a Dove hunting tradition which will last two generations after I go and give that youngster 60 or more years pleasure. Other than teaching them how to eat ice cream nothing will last as long or give as much enjoyment.  Good hunting, be safe, shoot well and find all those downed birds. We have plenty of bacon for the grill.
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Nice start around here, the First limit of the season is in the saltwater chilling......
My Dove involvement for the rest of the opener will be handling the grill chores.... Then,I'll be a spotter and retriever for family that won't get to shoot until this afternoon.
Good Luck and Good Shooting to all,
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My first ever dove hunt this morning went very well. 16ga Husqvarna 100 hammer gun: 
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