Want a higher dove-to-shell ratio?
04-20-2014, 01:20 AM
#1
Spike
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Sacramento County, CA
Posts: 71
Want a higher dove-to-shell ratio?
Try decoying doves especially near water holes.
Dove like to feed on bare ground out in the open. They don't like to dig or scratch for food.
Bring these birds in close so there is no excuse to miss with a shotgun. Have good a bird dog too to retrieve them.
A Lab works great because a downed dove may fall into a water hole.
Many downed doves are lost because they were simply not recovered in the field.
Use a wide choke as improved cylinder or skeet for doves over decoys. Use good skeet, target or dove loads too for excellent patterns.
There is no excuse not to limit out on doves with a single box of 25 premium shotgun shells.
This is something to train, plan and scout for well in advance of this coming dove season.
Here is a good video: mostly one shot per downed bird...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZj1BXKoagI
Dove like to feed on bare ground out in the open. They don't like to dig or scratch for food.
Bring these birds in close so there is no excuse to miss with a shotgun. Have good a bird dog too to retrieve them.
A Lab works great because a downed dove may fall into a water hole.
Many downed doves are lost because they were simply not recovered in the field.
Use a wide choke as improved cylinder or skeet for doves over decoys. Use good skeet, target or dove loads too for excellent patterns.
There is no excuse not to limit out on doves with a single box of 25 premium shotgun shells.
This is something to train, plan and scout for well in advance of this coming dove season.
Here is a good video: mostly one shot per downed bird...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZj1BXKoagI
Last edited by JonMBailey; 04-20-2014 at 01:36 AM.
04-20-2014, 05:01 PM
#3
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Sacramento County, CA
Posts: 71
We are not all built out of solid gold bricks, my friend.
I am out of college with a computer networking degree and in the middle of changing careers at age 50. I used to be an auto mechanic by trade but have health issues precluding me from that field.
Charley Dickey's "Dove Hunting", 1976, Galahad Books is good place to start for the novice dove hunter.
I can only dream and read about hunting until more money rolls in.
Last edited by JonMBailey; 04-20-2014 at 11:14 PM.
04-25-2014, 07:12 AM
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Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
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You obviously haven't read any of the other 70+ odd posts that he's made in less than three weeks after joining this site or you wouldn't be making those comments!
04-26-2014, 05:38 AM
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Fork Horn
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04-26-2014, 08:40 AM
#9
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Allegan, MI
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No need for an apology and I see Cal gave him a "time out" for his insensitive, if not completely racist remarks, in another thread he started. Maybe that will be enough to clue him in, but I doubt it and he'll probably be back with more "good stuff" until he gets a permieban!