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Stan, sounds like a great morning. That little Dickinson is a fine looking shotgun. A friend has had it with electric fences and he has had ample experience with electric fences, dove fields and deer. On his 30 acre sunflower, benne, corn field in Jenkins County, he built a gated high wire fence similar to what is used in high fence deer operations. It works. It also excludes hogs, coons, etc. He had a shoot Sunday at his other place with 500-600 birds in about 30 acres of corn and sunflowers as the guns went out into the field at 2 pm. They got up and they never came back. Here today; gone today. Gil
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Here today; gone today. Gil Yep, got several of those T-shirts, the latest one yesterday. SRH
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Stan, Our sunflower 'plots' aren't plots they are any where north of 160 acres usually 620 acres. We don't have a dove season up here but we do have an elk season
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I've seen pics of the huge prairie sunflower fields in Alberta, and the pea fields, Tamid. That's a different world. While there are some larger fields here (100 to 300 acres), many are broken up by woodlots or old fencerows into smaller, odd shaped fields. You could never "hem the birds up", doves I mean, to have shoots like we do, in huge fields like that. We've tried for years to shoot big fields successfully, but it almost never results in a good shoot. Guns need to be far enough apart for safety, but close enough together that the doves don't light on the ground between the guns to feed. A 25-30 acre field, dedicated to sunflower or other crop attractive to doves, works well for up to 15-20 people. And, it can also be shot successfully by as few as 6-8. And, it costs a whole lot less to plant and cultivate than a 100 acre field. It's an expensive proposition, growing sunflowers properly. But, well worth it when you love dove shooting like I do. SRH P.S. The best thing to ensure lots of doves on a field around here is to have the only one within several miles, tho' that's out of our control, generally. One of the best dove fields I ever shot over was a little 10 acre field near Summerville, SC that was smack dab in the middle of thousands of acres of pine plantation. There was no agriculture of any kind, and the doves were drawn to that planting like gnats to a dog's rear end. Unbelievable. It belonged to a friend's Dad. He and I killed our limits that afternoon with m/l doubles and black. What fun!! We were the first ones to limit and be off the field. We took a lot of ribbing that day about creating so much smoke. SRH
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Stan, You mentioned CWD, above, it is coming. I understand they found a case in Mississippi last year, not that far from the Ala. line. Next year, we won't be able to use anything with natural doe urine in it, artificial will be OK. Importation of nonresident deer is strictly prohibited and "parts" are highly regulated. I dread it. Mike
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I'm not sure what to think about CWD, it has been here for years. We had a huge die off in the local Mule Deer populations a dozen or so years ago, not sure what caused it. They have bounced back in a big way now. I know CWD is still here in Colorado but we hear much less about it than we did some time back.
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I dont know if it was CWD but a few years ago we had a big die off in very small areas. Every deer in a two mile area was dead. We are talking several hundred deer. They took samples but I never heard what they decided the cause was. It hit so fast the it burned out before it could spread. It sounded like a viral problem with both short incubation time and rapid death. Had the incubation period been longer or the death phase been longer it could have spread far and wide. It was a bit sad seeing all those dead deer in such a small area. That was just one location but I heard several others occurred. This was back in the Eastern Shore area in MD.
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Stan, you can put that limit of fat doves on dry ice and send them to California! Jim
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Went with the usual suspects on new ground today. Gil
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Gil, It looks like you're having a great woodcock season, wish I were there! Nice gun. Karl
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