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Stan great story and pictures. Thank you for going to all that trouble.
I like your dove day tradition. Very neat.
Is that snake a copperhead? (Edit: Never mind, I finally noticed the rattlers.)
Best,
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Last edited by AmarilloMike; 09/08/13 01:15 PM.
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Stan, y'all did it up right, as usual. Glad that canebrake rattler didn't give someone a bad day. Looks like it freshly shed. A buddy killed two in SC this week in his dove field during a shoot. They came out about 5 pm to feed on rats in the cornfield. We had a very good shoot as well yesterday. I was out of the field about 4 pm having sat out until 230. My Ithaca M37 16 shot two limits. A man's Remington Auto wouldn't shoot. I handed him my gun and two hours later he came back with a limit. Temps were civilized compared with last year's opener. Gil
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Yeah, temperatures were nice yesterday. We have seen some hot ones on opening day, eh?
That's a timber rattler, Mike. Colors and markings were exceptionally bright, like he recently shed his skin, as Gil said. Also, it warn't no trouble. It's been fun.
I've got 10 fields of sesame this year, benne, to some. I got a contract to grow it this year, something new. Having grown it a little in the past strictly for doves, I jumped on the chance to grow some for harvest. Several reasons. Deer and hogs absolutely will not eat it, it is a great rotation crop for peanuts, which I grow, cheap to grow and, last but not least, dove and quail absolutely love it. Sesame to a dove is like crack to a junkie. Once they find it you can't run them off. I may continue this thread with a switch to sesame. I hope to have some good shooting over the fields after I harvest them, in the late season.
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10 fields of sesame? If you could play it right, you could hunt doves every other day during the season. A buddy has it in his field this year. What size fields are they, Stan? Gil
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Stan, thanks for the story and pictures. Congratulations on the grandsons - 2 good looking little fellows.
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Very nice Stan! I can't wait for the season to open here!
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10 fields of sesame? If you could play it right, you could hunt doves every other day during the season. A buddy has it in his field this year. What size fields are they, Stan? Gil They range in size from 24 acres down to as small as 4 acres. A couple have powerlines running across them  . Sounds like woodcock in the morning and doves in the afternoon, eh? What do you mean by "every OTHER day" ?  SRH
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Stan,
Looks like another fine year around "Hillis Store" Jawja. Ross and I had some good shooting last weekend and yesterday, and speak often of our trip over there. Life is good.
JR
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Glad ya'll got some good shooting, John. Just say the word when you want to come again. Sesame fed dove breast is some fine eatin'. We'll cook up a big mess while you're heah.
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Thanks to Stan for a most interesting thread; it has pictured one of the things we love most about the South! The benne fields are a throw-back to my childhood when farmers planted the stuff just for doves. Man alive, I had some good November/December shoots on Benne fields. Makes good peanut/benne brittle candy too!...Geo
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