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yes sir ree im gona use that little 20 ga parker on those doves. ive loaded up some light loads of no 8 s for them doves. should be a good year i bushed hogged all day. thanks again russ for a swell gun. charlie
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07-15-2010, 07:46 AM
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whens your dove season open charlie. it opens here sept. 1 hopefully we wont have a cool spell and they all bug out. don't tell but i'm going to use my new 10 jest got to shoot it. ch
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our season opens sept. 1 also. i have also used the mighty ten on doves hope you kill a sackful with your ten ga. calven. i disked up part of my field today. planted wheat for deer and what ever critter that comes along. boy its hot here in old miss. hope it s better on opening day. charlie
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Charlie, It's been pretty hot here too, but things are looking up. The end of April I set fire to my ten year old 30 acre field of switch an other crap (my CRP contract had expired). I called the Polk volunteers first and they told me to go ahead and if they got a call they wouldn't respond unless it was from me. I had my Rhino with a barrel of water and a bucket and a broom and the field is bordered by 20' of green cool season grass. The wind was about 4 mph out of the ESE so I started on the west end with the Zippo and moved east a couple 100 yards and worked it again. When I was about 3/4 done, I thought I better check the perimeter; it was really cooking by then (little tornadic flames 40-50 feet in the air). Well, on the NW side it had jumped the cool season line and was headed through the dry leaves and dead wood into the hollow. I went to work the the broom and the bucket but it was gaining on me and in the steep hollow, being old an out of shape, I called 911 and asked the dispatcher to send their 1 ton 4WD with the 600 gallon tank and 150 foot hose. Well, Cap't Carl showed up first in his SUV with the Sheriff's star on it with 2 little extinguisers, one empty and the other half full. He got on the radio and called in the troops. Anyway it turned into a 3 alarm deal with Polk, New Pittsburg and Jeromesville responding. The result was that one of the units I asked for solved the problem, but the others had to do something so they proceeded to put out the parts I wanted to burn. Anyway, I got 90% of it done and the field looked like it had been napalmed, showing a lot of ant hills. Two and a half months later the switch grass is back, head high and thick; and a lot of crud (multiflora, briars) is gone, at least temporarily. Most of my friends don't like hunting the switch on my place (I guess they'd rather work their dogs on a golf course); but if they put a beeper on their pointer or put their shoulder to the cover and kept with their flusher, they'd get their game and the dogs don't mind at all.
Charlie, I also put out a couple of food plots in the field. I used the bucket on the tractor to push up a dike in a couple of drainages to make a water puddle in the center. When it rains, it works; when it's doesn't, it's dry. We'll se if that helps. The seed has been in the ground for a month and a half; the sunflowers are ready to bloom, the sorgum is starting to head out and the corn is knee high. I hope it attracts a few doves in a couple months. Fred (Francis, how'm I doin') |
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The "little dove field behind the house" is coming along. Millet has topped out and the sunflowers are getting there.
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07-20-2010, 12:40 PM
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James, What wonderful picture! Please enter it in the "Parker of the Month" contest...
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07-20-2010, 01:21 PM
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Great picture James!
It seems you have more than one .410 That one has a lot of original condition - very pretty! |
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07-20-2010, 05:28 PM
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Mr. Suponski: Thanks, I'll enter it, although I'm a little confused as to which month the contest is for.
Mr. Romig: Thanks also, I'm down to the one you see. My other two now reside elsewhere, the upside being I got tuition covered. The case color is not that bright with gun in hand, must be the morning light. James |
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