Late Dove in VA

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

I have no real working knowledge of farming other than planting food plots. I look at old images of pheasants and grouse on overgrown farms and homesteads and while I've had some great memories, I am afraid we are all missing the good old days. I'm not about to spend $15,000 to fly to Argentina to shoot doves, but if I could do it on a long weekend trip from upstate NY I'd do it.

There are several sorta pricey “dove clubs” in my relative area . We actually do damage control on one of them to try and deter the deer from the sunflowers . What good it does is questionable but nevertheless . The first couple years we control hunted for this club those guys would put 50 people in the field snd they would ALL limit out that’s 750 birds two opening days in a row and god knows how many they fringed or dropped and couldn’t find . This year their success wasn’t nearly as good . I’ve got another friend that’s a long time participant at Sanford and now a retired beef farmer . He had about a 5 acre field he groomes each year for his dove shoots . Last two years have been a bit less than anticipated like the club I mentioned . His years before had been like the dove club and they’d all limited out although only about twenty folks at those shoots . Anyway regardless it seems it ain’t what it once was