We should be having a few more fairly good shoots between now and the end of January. The harvested peanut fields are usually a fairly dependable source of shooting. I'll be doing some scouting this week. I wish that all of my friends here could experience a good afternoon shoot with 600-700 doves coming in to feed in a 50 acre field. Some days, when the weather has been clear and calm for a spell, they all seem to come at once. If you scout properly you can almost set the clock by them. However, when a front comes through all bets are off. Their habits are very much determined by weather conditions, here.
I take my scouting seriously because I cannot stand to invite 10 or 15 friends to a shoot and the birds not show up. There's always a chance of this with migratory doves. They can be here one day and gone the next, but good scouting takes a lot of that uncertainty away.
