opening day in mississippi

[charlie cleveland]

our opening day began with breakast at 5.00 am..my guest for this hunt got to fulton aon friday at 10.30 am from georgia yall folks know him as wayne gorez a member from the parker club here...we ate at 5.00am then we went and loaded up our gear and the guns in my old s-10 chevy .got to the field before daylight wayne was shooting one of the niceest 10 ga webley hammer guns you ever wanted to look at . i was shooting the 1894 remington 10 ga with the 19 gr red dot loads.i think wayne was shooting the same load..anyway we only shot about 9 times each could not hit a bull in the rear with a base fiddlebut we did manage to get 3 doves 2 for wayne and 1 for me...birds were not in numbers like they should have been...the young guys were shooting good my grandson cole had a chance to go to texas dove hunting we got a up date on his dove hunt early this morning..he said them doves in texas were as big as chickens we had a good laugh.. we quit shooting about 9.30 no birds flying it was hot by then about 91. we then loaded everthing up and went to our dinner area the spring....we finally got the vittles on the stoves and laid out on the tables..this was the layout..we had the stick balona over the grille the doves deep fried-we had chicken strips- french fries- elk- deer-poodle sop gravey-barbque chicken legs- and other things...tommorrows menu is fried squirl......aftereating till we could hold no more we sat andtalked about our guns old hunts of the past and even remembered our old comrades that have gone to better hunting grounds...about 2.30 we headed back to the the field at 3.00 the birds began to fly again slowly..wayne used his hammergun that was a wc scott 12 ga lord was that a beautiful gun and really hanndled well it felt like a 16 ga in your hands... i shot the 20 ga parker v grade...we hit a little better with them at 2 doves each...not a lot of birds that evening but more than this morning it was not really one of our better opening days but sure beat working....i think we could have killed more doves if we had of quit looking at waynes fine guns...so ended another dove hunt a good one it made my day when wayne said he really enjoyed his mississippi hunt....charlie