September 1st

[cheesy]

I've mentioned on here before, but last dove season the Wichita paper had an article about some guys down around Columbus that made some dove fields. The one guy started with 10 acres his house was on. He killed 1 acre with roundup, planted sunflowers in the spring. He tended to that 1 acre all summer long killing off any weeds so the flowers could thrive. A few weeks before the season he bush-hogged the 1 acre patch, only leaving the perimeter and a few strips in the middle.

When season came him and his buddies would hunt it. He set up rules such as only hunting in the evenings, only hunting every 3rd or 4th day, etc. He did this to keep from pressuring the birds too much. By the end of the season something like 1,000 birds had been harvested from this 1 acre field.

The next couple years he had his hunting buddies do these 1 acre patches on their ground so they could hunt a different patch each day. The shooting was unbelieveable the way the article was written.

 

[Toad]

I've read many places where quail love eating the seeds of the marijuana plant. However, I wonder if whoever wrote those stories confused the marijuana plant with the common hemp plant. Hemp has no psychoactive properties and is used commercially in making various fabrics and fiber-type things, especially in Canada where growing the hemp plant is big business.

That's very interesting, though, this post reporting that doves also favor eating hemp or marijuana seeds. I would think that sunflower seeds per gram have more nutrition value than hemp seed, but I really don't know.

It's been so long since I last saw a big stand of wild hemp, I can't even remember. Probably almost impossible to identify those stands in the fall after a freeze drops their leaves.

Well, I can tell you that I wouldn't know the difference, so maybe it was a patch of hemp. Maybe it was my imagination, but I always thought the birds did fly slower in that field, and we assumed it was because they were high...:laugh: Maybe we are just such awesome shotgunners that we beat the odds and hardly ever missed a dove? Yeah, that's probably it...:nutz::laugh::nutz: If I liked eating doves more, I would definitely put in a sunflower patch.

Has anybody tried planting any of the "bird blends" that the food plot companies sell? I bought a bag of the "upland mix" from Tecomate, but didn't get it planted due to all the work we did with the trees and shrubs.

 

[gsh lover]

I've mentioned on here before, but last dove season the Wichita paper had an article about some guys down around Columbus that made some dove fields. The one guy started with 10 acres his house was on. He killed 1 acre with roundup, planted sunflowers in the spring. He tended to that 1 acre all summer long killing off any weeds so the flowers could thrive. A few weeks before the season he bush-hogged the 1 acre patch, only leaving the perimeter and a few strips in the middle.

When season came him and his buddies would hunt it. He set up rules such as only hunting in the evenings, only hunting every 3rd or 4th day, etc. He did this to keep from pressuring the birds too much. By the end of the season something like 1,000 birds had been harvested from this 1 acre field.

The next couple years he had his hunting buddies do these 1 acre patches on their ground so they could hunt a different patch each day. The shooting was unbelieveable the way the article was written.

whats the possession limit on doves, I think 45,but not sure.

 

[CloseRange]

I've mentioned on here before, but last dove season the Wichita paper had an article about some guys down around Columbus that made some dove fields. The one guy started with 10 acres his house was on. He killed 1 acre with roundup, planted sunflowers in the spring. He tended to that 1 acre all summer long killing off any weeds so the flowers could thrive. A few weeks before the season he bush-hogged the 1 acre patch, only leaving the perimeter and a few strips in the middle.

When season came him and his buddies would hunt it. He set up rules such as only hunting in the evenings, only hunting every 3rd or 4th day, etc. He did this to keep from pressuring the birds too much. By the end of the season something like 1,000 birds had been harvested from this 1 acre field.

The next couple years he had his hunting buddies do these 1 acre patches on their ground so they could hunt a different patch each day. The shooting was unbelieveable the way the article was written.

Wow, cheesy. Your post here is Galactic class Cool. Thanks! Recently I've been house and/or land hunting, and your post is making me yet again re-evaluate which is more "practical" -- small town living, or rural living on a small patch of acreage.

A thousand doves. Just one acre of designed-field sunflowers did all that? Un-freakin' believable. That is so cool.

 

[Escopeton]

Some kind of dove is in my city neighborhood. They look like mournings but not sure.

The dove is most likely a Eurasian dove. Here in NM, we can hunt them along with Mourning Doves and they don't count in the limit.