61st Year at This Dove hunt

[C Roger Giles]

Harry;

Good photos and the personal photo of you is excelent, shit eating grin, hat and Parker, just does not get any better unless you had a big or maybe two pulls off a single malt jug to top off a fine hunt.

Roger

[Travis Sims]

Around where Harry and I live, he's prolly huntin on a horse farm? Another forum member here did opening day i know of. You wouldn't know it, but some of these big horse farm make great dove shoots.

Nice going Harry!

[Blind Dog]

A wonderful tradidtion with your Trojan Harry. You guys in central KY seem to be getting the flights. Here in north central OH I haven't seen any I would call migraters in the past few days, though a walk along the woodlines and through the barnyard will raise a few. I now have 9 breasts in the refer and it's about time to start cooking. That includes the 3 in the pic below with the BHE 12 that found them. The first 2 came 2 days ago with that little Turkish 36 (.410) I recently got; the other 4 fell yesterday to the old reliable Trojan 20. I used up about 2 boxes all told, so I guess the kill ratio is about 5:1. All hunting was done within an hour and a half of sundown. The first of the seasons is on; let the games begin.

[Harry Collins]

Fred, that is a beautiful Parker. Everything is green as a gourd here and the only sunflowers that are dry and attractive to dove are the ones that were sprayed. Another friend burned a wheat field and that left the kernals lying on the ground and even they are being ignored.

Shot again yesterday wih the same Parker with the same results. I had a soybean field to my back and the first three dove shot fell into it. They fell close to the edge and I never took my eye off the spot, but they were never found. After that I just didn't shoot any behind me and was careful not to let the incommers get to close because of carryover. We will shoot that field again Sunday.

I have wanted to shoot the VH 28 gauge, but can't keep my hands off Papa's 20 gauge.

Harry