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The dove population in my area has been on the decline for many years due to the steady disappearance of row-crop farming. With the advent of legalized baiting (disc up 2-3 acres and layer it with wheat) around every bend in the road by the local good ol' boys who blast them morning and afternoon for the 3-day Labor Day weekend until the local thin population has been wiped out, It gets to be less each passing year.
I've tried to convince the Miss. Dept. of Wildlife to only allow afternoon-only hunts/shoots on opening weekend to extend the resource somewhat. They look at you like you've got two heads. JR
Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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You ain't trying to weasel into Foxes spot are you George ? Nah,jOe. Plenty of doves around my south GA area and I've been opening the dove season with the same guys for many years, some since we were in high school together about sixty years ago. Not near as many of us as there used to be but new generations make up the loss. I often hunt now with the kids of the kids who grew up around our home playing with my kids. I hope that my grandsons enjoy the same lifetime hunting camaraderie with my old friend's grandkids as my generation did with our old hunting buddies...Geo
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I'm finally taking the day off for the opener this year
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You Dixie based gents might find it interesting to read, or re-read Nash Buckingham's "The Dove"-- he talks about baiting, arbitrary distances or zones and what a nightmare that fiasco was to enforce, 1/2 day seasons (also might work for waterfowling too) and other sage bits of wisdom from De Shootin'ist G'entman hisownself>> RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Fox most all Southern dove hunters bait in one way or another.
Once I asked a Federal game warden if he could explain the difference between hunting a field expressly planted and manipulated to shoot dove on and hunting a field that the guy just threw out grain on....he really had no answer.
Maybe Stan can explain the difference between bait and bait.
Kinda like lipstick on a pig beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Last edited by HomelessjOe; 08/08/21 08:55 AM. Reason: I'm sure Stan can depend on two Geo'ja lawyers weigh in on de'bait
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Look closely and you'll see the sag in that powerline- what's the aprox. weight of a dove, by the way?
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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can we substitute grits for the pablum? RWTF I love grits..
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Fox along with baited fields some Southern "Sportsmsn" even go so far as to put up phoney power line wires so the doves will come in and lite....power wire shooting doved rates a little above ground swating quail
Only good thing that might have came from your trip is when you out shot Stanley and his famous Yiltz shootgun..
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Good luck, Rich.
33 days, and counting ............... You pay for that dove field with your Corona virus farm loan ?
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Only good thing that might have came from your trip.. "have came" Rotflmao JR
Be strong, be of good courage. God bless America, long live the Republic.
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