Doves?

[Traxion]

Anyone shooting any doves? Or did the cold kick most out already? Not many in my corner of the prairie this year. Maybe a few will stick around a few more weeks.

 

[bucksnbears]

Millions here today after the light frost this morning.

 

[KDM]

lots around the harvested wheat fields.

 

[cooter00]

They just harvested the fields around my house to night so im hoping tomorrow they will be flying I haven't seen many since opener

 

[Kurtr]

We pounded them here pretty good this weekend. Dog is over 100 retrieves for the year. He gets more jacked up watching doves than 1000 mallards landing on us.

 

[Fritz the Cat]

Before September 1st opener I noticed they were congregating in large flocks. A bad sign.

They are gone in my area. The opener needs to be two weeks earlier.

 

[LBrandt]

Few and far between but no small grain close to me this year. LB

 

[Allen]

We pounded them here pretty good this weekend. Dog is over 100 retrieves for the year. He gets more jacked up watching doves than 1000 mallards landing on us.

I think he is of the opinion, as are many of us, that they taste better.

 

[Kurtr]

I think he is of the opinion, as are many of us, that they taste better.

Haha might be i think he likes how they come out of no where. He usually wants everyone to pet him but when we are dove hunting he is scanning the sky non stop and is annoyed if anyone touches him. In his eyes every little bird is a dove and he gives me the why dont you shoot look when swallows, black birds and meadow larks fly over.

 

[Allen]

Haha might be i think he likes how they come out of no where. He usually wants everyone to pet him but when we are dove hunting he is scanning the sky non stop and is annoyed if anyone touches him. In his eyes every little bird is a dove and he gives me the why dont you shoot look when swallows, black birds and meadow larks fly over.

If he's still young, he may eventually begin to discern the difference between doves and other tweety birds. I once had a GSP that learned I didn't shoot at pheasant hens. Eventually he stopped pointing hens in the field. At first it kind of annoyed me as I'd have hens he just walked right by bust out from under my feet, until I finally figured out that he had been "trained" to ignore them by me not shooting at them.

 

[savage270]

The first time I took my wife dove hunting, I set her up on a fence line and I sat a few hundred yards away up the valley. Before leaving her, she asked "what does a dove look like?" and I told her all the birds in the field were doves. I came back at sunset and she had 6 doves and a woodpecker in a pile beside her.

 

[wslayer]

They sure are tasty little morsels ( not the woodpeckers ).

 

[Kurtr]

If he's still young, he may eventually begin to discern the difference between doves and other tweety birds. I once had a GSP that learned I didn't shoot at pheasant hens. Eventually he stopped pointing hens in the field. At first it kind of annoyed me as I'd have hens he just walked right by bust out from under my feet, until I finally figured out that he had been "trained" to ignore them by me not shooting at them.

He is a five year old HRC hunting retriever champion and AKC master hunter pretty high drive so he thinks every bird in the air should be his to retrieve. Watching some of those heart shot dove fly a couple hundred yards and drop out of the sky and watching him go get them makes all the training worth it

 

[guywhofishes]

Haha might be i think he likes how they come out of no where. He usually wants everyone to pet him but when we are dove hunting he is scanning the sky non stop and is annoyed if anyone touches him. In his eyes every little bird is a dove and he gives me the why dont you shoot look when swallows, black birds and meadow larks fly over.

I used to watch Royce's eyes when he was looking behind me - sure beat turning around every 10 seconds to look behind me. You could tell by his eyes when doves were coming.

 

[Kurtr]

I used to watch Royce's eyes when he was looking behind me - sure beat turning around every 10 seconds to look behind me. You could tell by his eyes when doves were coming.

Yep when his ears perk up and he licks his lips i know i better be looking where ever he is

 

[deleted user]

Dusted off the 20 gauge and had a great shoot Sunday evening. A buddy of mine and two youngsters sat by a stock pond south of Mandan with 2 spinning wing dekes. Plenty of poppers for football this weekend.

 

[Kurtr]

Dusted off the 20 gauge and had a great shoot Sunday evening. A buddy of mine and two youngsters sat by a stock pond south of Mandan with 2 spinning wing dekes. Plenty of poppers for football this weekend.

 

[Jiffy]

I had a GSP that absolutely refused to pick doves up! She’d find them and just stand there. I think it was all the little feathers they have. She’s be gagging and coughing. Finally she got to the point where she’d just look at me like, “Really? You think I’m going to pick that up?”

 

[LBrandt]

I had a GSP that absolutely refused to pick doves up! She’d find them and just stand there. I think it was all the little feathers they have. She’s be gagging and coughing. Finally she got to the point where she’d just look at me like, “Really? You think I’m going to pick that up?”

Got a lab that does that, hates those little feathers I think. LB

 

[guywhofishes]

Right - and those little feathers come right out easy peasy - especially on the squabs.