going dove hunting

only a pointer

only a pointer

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i havnt been dove hunting in years but i bought my migratory license and got permission next to a cut corn field with a pond that i have been seeing hundreds on powerlines sitting wow! but i dont have permission to where i am seeing them but i got permission to th land that borders it maybe i will get a few fly byes leaving here in couple hours just 5 minutes from my house in cass county
 
monday i killed a whopping 5 had lots of shots hard to hit them with a 20 guage the next day i go back and seen maybe 3 flying and killed one weird how they just up and gone?
 
They get burned off an area. With so many field harvested already, they will find and area with more hospitality, fewer blasting caps. They also are barometric sensitive, any cold rain, they are gone, some other migrators will be here in indian summer, by then most dove hunters are long gone. On the other hand I saw a 100-200 teal on the duck club. New cold weather on Friday should bring some more, in advance of the opener, on Saturday.
 
i forgot about teal it started the first right? on some doves i shot at they would dive like straight down to the ground at a diagonal and when i would go over there to see if i hit them they would take off why do they do that?
 
Doves are odd! Even in great years they would be all over the place, and two or three days later, gone. spiral down to walk on bare ground is a a classic. One of the ways the shell average is 20 shots per dove, just watch the farm boys drive along roads, and try to shoot them of the power lines! Dangerous, and stupid, but the shots are tricky! Teal opens at sunrise on Saturday, only duck season that does not open 1/2 hour before sunrise, so you can have a good look at the targets, could be shovelers, pintails, woodies, too!
 
Saw a couple of huge flocks of teal fly over us saturday. 40+ birds in each flock. Also a bunch of 3's and 4's. Should have some birds around on saturday. Shooting one of those little missles is no picnic either.
 
Dove opener was terrific for me, downhill after that.
Birds are still around - got reports from 2 different guys that they got limits today!

The teal hunting should be terrific if you have water!
 
That water can be the tricky part:) It sounds like dove numbers have been down overall here in the southwest part of missouri. I've called some conservation areas and that's what they said, but as the cool weather comes in I'm thinkin more will come through. We saw a lot more this last weekend than we did that first weekend. It sure is good practice on my aweful shooting:)
 
I was hunting teal all weekend, lots of birds, shooting was not our specialty, but in defense we shoot on the fly, not jumping them out of decoys. Last night we had around 200 doves cross the blind going to get water. My kids moved over about 200 yards, an tried to lay-way some doves. These were mostly migration birds, yes you can tell, to intercept the next question, a little larger and move in bigger flocks. I'll be back with a flappy dove decoy. By the way I will never believe how doves and teal come to a flapping decoy, the teal will land with it, the doves around the ground under it. I never used them till this year, ( kind of thought was a cheat), now I'm sold!
 
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