Mike,
We fly from Jax to Miami to Santiago to Cordoba. I don't mind the all night flight as I can sleep on a plane without much trouble. Lan Chile airlines is a first class airline (even tho' we fly turista class as well). Which outfitter did you use? We use Luis Sier. We've got a group of twenty leaving on August 27th, rented the whole La Paloma Riverside lodge for our group.
I'll bet you shot a whole lot more doves than those shown in that picture on a three hour shoot down there. Looks to be around 150-160 in that photo. I love it down there in late August/early September. Can hardly wait. I've got to order a couple ejectors and springs for my Silver Pigeon II Sporting 20 gauge to take, just in case.
George, that is exciting news on the dove limit. I just wish they would quit bustin' up the season so bad. Let it come back in at Thanksgiving and just stay in until the end of January. Man, I dearly love those cold shoots in peanut fields in the late season, when the big migratory birds have moved down and strafe the field in squadrons. I love dove shooting so much that I am prone to often go to one of my peanut fields and set up a Mojo dove and a few decoys along the top of a center pivot and sit by a tower all alone to get my limit. Just me and my yellow Lab, Fowler. It is nothing short of amazing how the decoys and Mojo will draw birds to me from all over a 100 acre peanut field.
Dove shoots with the "gang" are great fun, but there are times when nothing is more enjoyable than just being alone with your dog in a cold, windswept field trying to limit out on those little grey rockets.
