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Maybe one day I'll come to Buck's Bottom, pick you up and we'll go together. We could hunt some desert quail on the same trip.
SRH
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It's hell to have some fairly expensive guns and shoot the cheapest ones the best. Ain't that the truth, Stan. My absolute favorite quail gun is a Lefever 16 DS all beat up with a 100 years of use and abuse. But the sucker just nails the birds almost automatically. Be embarassed to say what I paid for it while all my pretty guns sit in the safe.
When an old man dies a library burns to the ground. (Old African proverb)
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My first day was as good as I could want. Boys home and hunting with me. Limits for all and no birds lost which is something I glad to say. I hate watching people shoot over the limit bag limits because they are too lazy or inept to find all their birds. If you can't recover the bird don't take the shot. Knock a bird down then go get him is our method. By having two or more mark the bird it is almost impossible to loose one. Feathers help.  I used my late Uncles old Crescent .410 which may be the least valuable gun I own, which is almost priceless to me. With that gun he killed quail in quantities I could never kill in three lifetimes. Those days are gone. He even killed more than a few ducks with it and enough rabbits and squirrels to feed a small army. For reasons he never explained he had one barrel choked I/C and the other XXXF. I watched him drop two birds out a covey many a time and never saw him crush one with the tight barrel. Must have shot their eye out as they use to say.
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I drove 300 miles from Los Angeles to Yuma Arizona this afternoon. Highs reaching to 111.
We scouted about two hours in the late afternoon and found several promising dove flyways. Birds are everywhere and in great numbers.
At about 5 PM we witnessed flight after flight of dove in waves returning to the roost.
We are going to hunt this hillside reminiscent of a moonscape, doves flying adjacent to freshly cut hay fields.
We will be just below the hills crest with great visibility to oncoming dove.
Who can sleep, it's like the night before Christmas.
A safe hunt to all. One of these days, I would love to come shoot doves in the desert Southwest setting you describe, Bob. Sounds absolutely wonderful. JR It was my first time hunting Yuma and it was absolutely unbelievable. More dove than I've ever seen and flying faster than I thought any dove could. Semi mountainous terrain with doves divided between high flyers and those hugging the lunar-like deck. Limits reached late with extra freebie Eurasians throw in. It was really quite a humbling shooting event, wouldn't have missed it for the world.
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Thirteen birds opener and eleven today, I only was out for a couple of hours each day. Wanted to mention, that about half of them were Eurasian collareds. For a good while they seemed to hang in town around the elevators, now everywhere...stay well all!
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Fifteen bird limit this afternoon with the Yildiz, Elegante 4, S x S .410. Didn't shoot great, but managed 46%. When you're sitting out in a sunflower field you usually have birds coming from all sides, which makes for tougher shooting, they surprise you so often. That's my story and I'm st-t-t-t-t-ticking to it.  SRH
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Are those flowers picked?
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Stan, if I shot 46% with a .410 at doves, I'd organize a parade. Gil
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Sounds like a great start to another season Stan.....
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I shot poorly with an extra full choked gun. Geo did not. He let me fetch the birds though so I didn't feel completely useless
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