Dove season!

[dusty3030]

Good for boys and their dad!

 

[Lineman North Florida]

My boys love it, if I could just get them to be still

 

[Willl]

Sweet. Looks like fun.

Use to do some quail hunting myself few years back.

Much of a gamey taste in doves ?

 

[Bob Ha]

My 15 year old daughter went Dove hunting with her grandfather Saturday. She got one out of 6 shots with a 410 pump. She had lots of fun and made some everlasting memories.

 

[crash325]

My yard would be a dove or quail hunters paradise. Hundreds of both come in all through the day.
I mostly consider hunting them pretty much a waste of time.
At 1 or 2 bites per bird.
Lot more entertaining watching their silly antics. Male doves are always horny and after the girls.

Quail families come back year after year bringing in their babies. One family this year had 3 sets of babies this year. Over 20 in all from thumb nails (new hatch lings) to almost as large as the parents. Nearly grown squabble all the time trying to be the big cheese in the group.

On fresh sand piles quail love to get on top and slide down. One day my brother in law, sister & I were on the back deck, about 6 feet away they lined up on the ramp railing and were sliding down the stair rail.

Had some fresh 2x4's on a steep ramp a few years ago. Young doves would run up the ramp and slide down the 2x4's.

 

[Bird]

I mostly consider hunting them pretty much a waste of time.
At 1 or 2 bites per bird.

Yep, in my early teens, I didn't know you could actually miss a shot with a 12 gauge and I heard that doves were good eating, so I went and shot one, dressed it out, and had it for supper. I figured out right away that a dove wasn't worth a shotgun shell and never shot another one.

I just never was a "sport" hunter. When I killed something, it was either for food or to eliminate a harmful or nuisance animal.

 

[Willl]

When I killed something, it was either for food or to eliminate a harmful or nuisance animal.

My thoughts also.

When I lost my taste buds for duck and peasant, kinda ended my hunting career altogether.

 

[tcreeley]

I enjoy the doves around here- calling in the mornings and through the winter. The doves actually get frost-bite in the below 0 days during the winter- the feet are fleshy and the tips of their toes will blacken. Some toes will be shorter than normal. Throwing seed out for them gives you time to look them over.

 

[cqaigy2]

My thoughts also.

When I lost my taste buds for duck and peasant, kinda ended my hunting career altogether.

Ditto, except maybe the peasant part. used to hunt all the time but i don't like duck or pheasant much anymore. I still like chukar though but don't hunt them.