Dove season opener

Tuesday? Guess I'm gonna have to burn a vacation day.

 

It is always on the 1st, Indiana is the same way.

 

I like the 1st as the opener just because I always look forward to it. Understand though for those that have to work. I too will have to work but maybe get a few that evening.

 

It is always on the first and yes the migratory bird seasons (woodcock, dove, teal,etc.) are not allowed to start before 9/1. I think the only exception is there used to be some resident goose early seasons in other states in August.

 

Yep, nothing new. Sure does make it nice for self employed to get a headstart on the weekend warriors. Just wish they wouldnt have switched wood duck to opening on a sat.

 

I wish they would open it for crossbows first. :grumpy:

 

Ready for tomorrow. Got my back pack packed and my cooler pack with food and water

 

Wow. Went to the hunt I've been going to opening day for 30 years...never not had an easy limit. these guys are serious and pretty good at it. Killed two. Wow. Didn't think it was possible.

 

Drove past one public field and said screw that. Looked like a parking lot. Way to many guns on that little patch of ground. Went to another wma and scratched out 6 birds before my alergies said it was time to leave. Going to shoot some private fields this weekend that aren't being hunted this week.

 

Pretty much the same luck for us. Hit a public dove field first (we shot limits off it last year, probably took over 1,000 birds opening day last year) never fired a shot. Left there and went to a private shoot that has been going on for 15yrs, always a limit. I shot maybe 15 times and killed 5. Nobody got a limit, most were in the 3-5 bird range. Winter wheat field harvested and sun flower field cut in strips...... Very slow for us.

 

Did my first public land hunt for doves at Lloyd WMA. Unbelievable how many shooters were in that field. I managed to kill 12 birds before heat and low blood sugar sent me home. My brother was set up forty feet away and only managed two. Good thing he bet me that I couldn't bag as many as he did... It was nice to sit back in the evening and watch him clean my birds while I sipped a cold one....

 

Went to a public shoot. To many hunters in the small field. A lot of sky busting and a lot of Birds lost by people shooting them over a standing corn field and not finding them and some not even going to look for them. Suppose to be non toxic shoot but there was SOME LEAD in the field.
Getting shots was tough and you did hit a Bird and it was falling it got shot 2 or 3 more times before it hit the ground. After about 3 hours me and Cuz moved to a spot in a corner where two guys had left.
We had a bird a piece finished out with a limit there. Think this will be my last WMA public shoot.
After hunting a few WMAs over there years it isn't safe any more. To many hunters for the field and a lot of low birds shot at.