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12-31-2018, 06:41 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Our Texas late dove season is open, as well as quail. My 20 year old Nephew and his Dad all took the walk. We ended up putting four coveys up, and 7 birds total, adhering to our covey rise only rule, no walking up singles from a broken covey. The pasture we were hunting just behind my hunting camp is a sandy piece of high ground covered in wild Crotan, which down here we call it goat weed. The doves were on the ground feeding in the same field, and we shot them as they flushed...got about 20 total...all in all a fun afternoon!
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12-31-2018, 06:47 PM | #4 | |||||||
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Thanks! I just need the ambient temperature to make me cry (so don't tell me!). If it was pleasant, and you could walk up quail and dove without a dog, I don't want to know about it...it will keep me up at nights.
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12-31-2018, 07:11 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Now back to this!!
It was an impromtu walk, about 50 degrees. Hobbs and Raider are at home with My bride (although they are headed out here tonight for New Years Eve) so we has no pointing services! We did have Tank, my Nephews white lab, although I never needed him. Decent quail number on our place this year, even with some flooding. So far I think our dead bird count is around 100 for the season, with 90 % of those shot over dogs. I personally have hunted very little this year, too many other “life” challenges. My partner in this place has done about 5 days using a pro dog handler, and 4 shooters taking two man walk ups on points. Whatever two shooters take on a covey rise is okay. We require double guns, so very rarely we will take four on the rise, th only time we work singles is if a coveyflushes wild, and no one gets a shot.
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12-31-2018, 07:52 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Tough life...I feel sorry for you...
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01-01-2019, 07:02 AM | #7 | ||||||
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Years ago We had a pasture full of goat weed and I would keep an eye on it and when the doves really go to using it.I would put my shotgun in the truck and after checking my steers would have myself a little dove shoot. Great fun and doves do love goat weed.
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