September 1st Doves

[charlie cleveland]

rain has pushed our birds out too rain and high winds a dove does not like...we to have been hunting the same ground for50 years our young hunters are grown up and have kids of their own....i am now the oldest hunter in my group at 70 in sept....weve had some good hunts over the years and some terrible ones also but i have enjoyed every single one of them...we have had some great breakfasts and dinners over the years hope to have a good one saturday...hope all of us get to warm up our gun barrels....charlie

[J. A. EARLY]

Things change greatly and I don't think there are nearly the doves that were around in the '70s. We all hunted a 1000 acre farm where the owner invited anyone from the county that wanted to come. He had his farm hands go around the field for the first two swipes cutting silage with the chute not in the wagon but throwing it on the ground. He loved to hunt and to see people hunt. Fifty hunters shooting over fifty rounds each, some shooting over 100 on opening day.

Now owned by NJ refugees who won't let you step a foot on the property without being arrested.