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Dove hunting tips
Posted on 7/30/17 at 1:42 pm
Posted on 7/30/17 at 1:42 pm
Hey OB last season was my first dove season and I went on one dove hunt at a WMA. I had no luck, didn't see a dove, and I had 5 decoys. There were vultures flying around everywhere so I guess that had something to do with it.
Any tips y'all have for a novice? Should I put a bucket of water out the morning before? Are the crop fields best? What is an attractive area for doves? Thanks in advance.
Any tips y'all have for a novice? Should I put a bucket of water out the morning before? Are the crop fields best? What is an attractive area for doves? Thanks in advance.
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Posted on 7/30/17 at 1:54 pm to jcolding41
Yes on the bucket of water
Posted on 7/30/17 at 2:03 pm to Gillnet
quote:And AT LEAST a couple hundred lbs of corn scattered a week before.
Yes on the bucket of water
Posted on 7/30/17 at 2:15 pm to jcolding41
Find beans or corn, locate the man on the tractor, shake his hand, introduce yourself, POLITELY ask to hunt his fields, assure him you're not a slob and you won't leave any trash in his field. You'll eventually run across someone who will give you permission. Don't trash his fields, don't rut up the roads by driving on them after it rains, and NEVER drive through a field. Those are my dove hunting tips to kill doves at the same place year after year.
Posted on 7/30/17 at 2:27 pm to jcolding41
Pay Francis Thompson $200
Posted on 7/30/17 at 2:55 pm to jcolding41
Find a combination of food, water, trees, and gravel. The rest kind of takes care of itself.
Posted on 7/30/17 at 3:32 pm to prostyleoffensetime
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Find a combination of food, water, trees, and gravel.
and beer, cant forget the beer
Posted on 7/30/17 at 7:31 pm to Geauxtiga
Cracked corn, wheat, sunflower seeds. You will kill birds
Posted on 7/30/17 at 7:52 pm to oleyeller
I've got 400 acres of soybeans and a lot of birds the last few days. I better hit on opening day because every other field around me is corn and they will be gone.
Posted on 7/30/17 at 7:55 pm to A_bear
Hey man do you still have my #?
Posted on 7/30/17 at 9:05 pm to jcolding41
Texas
Posted on 7/31/17 at 5:50 am to jcolding41
I'm assuming that you are in Ga right? What area are you near? What WMA DID YOU HUNT?
Posted on 7/31/17 at 8:14 am to Donkeypunch
Clybel WMA (Charley Elliot).
This post was edited on 7/31/17 at 8:15 am
Posted on 7/31/17 at 8:29 am to jcolding41
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I went on one dove hunt at a WMA. I had no luck, didn't see a dove, and I had 5 decoys. There were vultures flying around everywhere so I guess that had something to do with it.
Was this like a day or two after opening day once doves had been cleaned and or lost in the field?
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Should I put a bucket of water out the morning before?
I've never heard of that one. Around water can be a good spot, and any good dove field is going to have a pond or ditch holding water near it. That said, those water bodies are established, I've never heard of the bucket theory. Please correct me if my assumptions are wrong regarding the bucket of water.
Posted on 7/31/17 at 8:41 am to jcolding41
Don't shoot the damn dog
Posted on 7/31/17 at 8:44 am to Clyde Tipton
I buried a kiddie pool in my sunflower field one year and kept it full of water. The doves used it, especially the ringnecks. I later found out it was illegal as hell, same as baiting with grain. Good thing we didn't shoot those doves...
Posted on 7/31/17 at 10:09 am to LSUballs
They have started cutting a few fields in tenses. Dove count is getting thick
Posted on 7/31/17 at 10:21 am to jimjackandjose
Yep, there are a lot of birds around and have been all year. I don't think doves migrate as much as they used to
Posted on 7/31/17 at 10:56 am to LSUballs
We're exactly a month away from dove season eve. I rode my plot yesterday evening and got a count of 22.
Pending a hurricane or something to blow them out, there should be some birds to shoot at opening day on my place.
Pending a hurricane or something to blow them out, there should be some birds to shoot at opening day on my place.
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