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Mike, I was thinking I have some excess as well. Kinda like overflow. I'm planning to retire in the very near future and use some of that overflow chasing after my pointer with one of my pop guns in hand. Maybe travel around the country to trade stories with some members here.

Dang Mike! 2014 was a good season! I envy you guys who live down south. Up here we are lucky to get 2 weeks of decent shooting before we get a cold rain and the birds high tail it for warmer climes.

My gun rotation got tossed a monkey wrench this weekend when my middle son asked if he could borrow a .410 for the first few days and then a 28. So I lost one of my 42's and most likely a Ruger 28 or Ithaca 37 28. I still have a few 42s to use and which ever 28 he does not use. Then it goes to my late uncles .410 and a few 20s, a muzzle loader and hopefully by then a new to me 20 bore hammer gun.

My goal is to take five more limits than I got last year. Weather cooperating I might have a slim chance. I am certain to be willing to put in the days hunting. Bird numbers look decent so far but so much can change in a month. I have gone from a thousand birds down to almost none and then back up again in that time period.

My rotation will be some combination of Red Label, Silver Pigeon, RBL, Parker Repro, A400 and 1100. All 28 gauge.

I will most likely begin with the FAIR Iside .410, and switch to the Dickinson .410 at sometime during the early season. For the short "Thanksgiving Season" I will likely use the 687 SPII Sporting 20 ga. For the late seasons, and the tough, purple necked, mature doves that ride the wind like surfers ride the waves at Maui, I will break out the 32" Elsie 16 ga. and the 30" Fox AE 16 ga. Right at the very end, when the birds are so mature and tough that you can sometimes hear the no. 8s hit them, and they fly on, I may resort to the "new" L.C. Smith 32" 12 ga. I will not, in any gauge, use more than 1 oz. of shot for any dove shooting.

SRH

Very nice picture, Karl! Jim

Jim, Thank you. Michigan had an experimental dove season years ago for about a year in the southern part of the state. A year later it was voted out, what a shame.
Karl

Stan, did you plant sunflowers in your dove field this year? How many acres? Do you cut or disc to prepare the field for hunting? Jim

JR,

I've heard others say that shooting in the morning is a bad thing but never understood it. Can you explain? I've never figured why shooting a dove at 900 am is any more damaging than shooting one at 100 pm. I grew up in Texas where we could shoot them all day for the entire season and it was quite a shock when I moved to the east coast and found out there is no shooting before noon.

September 1 is my favorite day of the year, I call it New Years Day. Started out just picking them up for my dad as a little kid and eventually graduated to a single shot and so on. I love those dodgy little birds.

DH

Jim, I planted the 25 acre sunflower field again. They are drying down now. We'll bush hog strips in about two or three weeks.

DH, the only day we can't shoot in the morning is opening day.

SRH