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Dove hunting in the NC mountains is hit or miss. They are either here in decent numbers or there are none at all. We go down to the Piedmont to have a better chance. So far I hear numbers are average in our field.
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Stan, it is a mixed bag of local and migrants. Well I guess they are migrants but we are not allowed to profile them anymore. Last year I had two great fields with 300 plus using both two weeks before the season. We had a slight cool snap, 50 at night and 70 for highs, two thirds of the birds were gone in two days. About a week later I started to see birds building up again. Not to the pre cool spell levels but enough to make for good shooting.
Teal, Wood Docks and Doves do tend to be very temperature sensitive in the early Fall around here. I've seen weeks or months of work vanish in a couple of days. Sometimes we get northern birds down to replace them, sometimes not. When I lived back on the East coast we had a lot of late season migrant birds which came down right around years end. Some days there would be hundreds of Dove working back and forth across my farm. We had tons of birds but struggled to get enough shooter to keep them moving in a field. My solution was to find a way to pass shoot them and would gladly shoot them all day long. Life was very good on those days.
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....they spend the night in the pines in the back...not sure where they go during the day.... Huh? By day, they provide your customers great wing shooting. By night? Well, you should be setup right under those trees with a shotgun for the last fifteen or twenty minutes of shooting time. Let the ole shotgun sing, but careful, is baiting legal by you?
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when i was a kid i killed song birds an ate them...i aint a kid no more...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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"Send em my way baby!" Dean Martin
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Stan, it is a mixed bag of local and migrants. Well I guess they are migrants but we are not allowed to profile them anymore. ROTFLMAO  I nearly spit coffee all over my keyboard !! I'd like to borrow that line a bit later, if I may. SRH
Last edited by Stan; 08/26/17 06:15 AM. Reason: sp.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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craig...it is legal here to bait bears and suckers...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Checking cows this morning and it appears our early teal have arrived...every puddle was full of em...
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May God bless America and those who defend her.
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I hope the Bluewings get hung up in the heartland a bit to give Texas a chance to settle down. Thoughts and prayers for the folks that are caught up in the storm.
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