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Sunday is supposed to have a high in the 30s
01 Sept 23 11 Doves, Daly 410 3” 7 ½ reloads 02 Sept 23 13 Doves, Daly 20 gauge 04 Sept 23 15 Doves, Browning Superposed Chisled 20 IC/Mod 05 Sept 23 01 doves, L.C.Smith Q3 (1893) with Briley 20 ga tubes 06 Sept 23 11 Doves, Rem 3200 with 20 gauge barrels NO HUNT HOT 105 degrees 09 Sept 23 15 doves, Browning Superposed 20 ga IC/Mod LTRK 11 Sept 23 15 doves, Remington 1100 16 gauge with cut barrel no vent 12 Sept 23 03 doves, Superposed 20 4 digit, farmer plowing field No hunt for three days, wet roads 18 Sept 23 15 doves, Citori 16 gauge 19 Sept 23 8 doves, Zamacola 12 gauge, short hunt, 23 Sept 23 15 doves, Remington 3200 with special barrels 25 Sept 23 10 doves, Bernardelli Gamecock Premier 12 ga, use light ammo 30 Sept 23 10 doves, Rottweil Olympia 12 ga 02 Oct 23 10 doves, GECO 16 gauge WINDY and Cold 03 Oct 23 05 doves, Daly Superior, 20 ga, VERY WINDY 09 Oct 23 06 doves, Amercan Arms Brittany 20 gauge, FEW DOVES 15 Oct 23 00 doves, Liege a Feu 16 gauge, was 32 degrees yesterday 24 Oct 23 00 doves, Citori 12 gauge, NO DOVES, SEASON OVER 163 DOVES
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Wow, that was a good season. And all those different guns you shot as well
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Got pheasants? Perfect conditions for hunting the cover around harvested small grain fields.
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163 doves is a good season. I always hope and try to top 200, but seldom succeed.
Well done. Also interesting that from Sept. 8 to Oct. 14 the temps went from 105 degrees to 32 degrees!
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I have been fortunate enough to be invited to dove shoots on a diary farm in Phoenix. They are inundated with eurasian doves with no season or limit. To shoot a couple hundred in an hour with two shooters is quite common. Interestingly the owner said there were more born in that hour of shooting than we had shot. It's 'high fence' so to speak but for a Canadian kid with no dove season at all, it was a delight.
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Mike, always good to season your season's end report. It's a toss up as to what is more impressive, the number of birds or array of guns. Gil
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Mike/ Methinks you need more guns!
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He he he I use a different gun each outing. I try to use them all in a 5 year time span. The first three doves are usually quite safe Hardest to shoot is an Ithaca NID 10 gauge with 32 inch barrels and doves in a 25 mph wind, WHEW!!
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Mike, for the Ithaca - this was for sale recently and might be modified to accommodate the 10 bore.
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Care to say how many shells were expended? Absolutely not picking on you. Just curious if you also kept up with that too. That's a fine season by any standard, given the limits and difficulty. And I quite like that you used a variety of different guns. I've done some of that as well at times, just taking a gun out because it hasn't been out, and I've not shot it in a while but have never been as methodical as you on that count and a lot of my doin's anymore are just target games for enjoyment because it's whot I have easiest access to. Dove hunting now involves overnight stays for me and traveling w/a pair of guns is about all that I want to fool with, even on a short trip. Was a time that huntable mourning dove were plentiful around here. The birds are still here in areas but the urban sprawl/development(?) has made places one can hunt close by almost extinct. And too, my desire to drive any distance returning after a day's hunt has abandoned me as I've aged, so a hotel or motel comes into play for a roost, even when out shooting on friends, if one isn't too far removed. Enough.
I have always felt that anyone who can pass shoot our panhandle and W TX mourning dove in a flyway at the 75% level, taking all comers, is doing some serious world class rough shooting. Very few can manage that. Not talking about birds leaving fields in the afternoons or coming into tanks or water troughs by wind motors. Talking about highflyers in open flyways where the distances between food and water is miles and being positioned somewhere out in the middle, well away from either. I don't think there is a more sporting game or rewarding bag than that type of game shooting.
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