Wheat is green, sunflowers are up and the weed strips I left are growing as well. Now all I need is rain, time and patience. A lot of the later. Shells loaded already, gun chosen and I am ready. I don't need a count down clock to know it is too far off.

First strip of wheat will be mowed a month before the season. Then a new strip every week to ten days. Sunflowers will be left standing as long a the wheat last. This system kept doves in the field until a full month of the season had passed. By then all the easy and dumb doves were long dead. The ones left were much more fun to shoot and yes to miss as well.