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Unread 12-30-2020, 09:11 PM   #1
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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.
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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
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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 to 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 .
Serves them right. When you're greedy, and I mean by that, shooting a good field two days straight in a row, you can expect not to have many birds later. Doves may not have Einstein's IQ, but they're not stupid. They will definitely leave a field that's being shot too often.

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Serves them right. When you're greedy, and I mean by that, shooting a good field two days straight in a row, you can expect not to have many birds later. Doves may not have Einstein's IQ, but they're not stupid. They will definitely leave a field that's being shot too often.

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Not two days in a row , that was opening day two years in a row . I’m not sure what there protocol is for days and resting the field etc . They’ve got about 250 acres . Pretty much all pretty well covered with sunflowers .
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Not two days in a row , that was opening day two years in a row . I’m not sure what there protocol is for days and resting the field etc . They’ve got about 250 acres . Pretty much all pretty well covered with sunflowers .
I misunderstood your meaning, Craig. No problem with opening day two years in a row.

You can often shoot the same field numerous times if you give it a rest between shoots ............ say a week or two between. We do that often in the early/mid seasons.

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I misunderstood your meaning, Craig. No problem with opening day two years in a row.

You can often shoot the same field numerous times if you give it a rest between shoots ............ say a week or two between. We do that often in the early/mid seasons.

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My retired friend usually shoots his groomed dove field once possibly twice a week for the first four weeks . These folks at this club we do damage control for I dunno . But at 5G’s to be a member I’d wanna have more than four shoots for my 5G’s !
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