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09-03-2022, 10:35 PM | #13 | ||||||
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Opening day of dove season is treated as a holiday down here. We are blessed to have a great group to share it with on a friends old family farm. I love watching my pup slowly put it all together.
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09-03-2022, 11:55 PM | #14 | ||||||
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The farm across the road from me that was a dairy farm for the last seventy years stopped the dairy operation this past January so there was no early chopped corn this year . Some die hard still went there and stood around the edges of the to be picked cornfields . I heard exactly six shots , whether they hit any and whether they found them if hitting them I dunno . Pretty sad we used to have over a dozen working dairy farms in our county now there’s supposedly one left .
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09-04-2022, 02:38 PM | #15 | ||||||
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My pastor and I had a good local hamburger lunch yesterday then drove over to the field. There was assembled some 20 shooters at the lodge where we usually have a lunch cooked to enjoy, but not this time.
Went to the field about 2:45 pm and birds were already feeding. Cloudy, with spurts of sunshine. Temps in the mid 80s, with thunder rumbling occasionally off in the distance. Birds flew well until about 5:30, allowing all there ample opportunity for shooting. I was using my FAIR Iside Tartaruga Gold .410 S X S, 30" barrels, with 11/16 oz. Remington loads (leftovers, I won't be buying any more of them, much preferring the WW 3/4 oz. load in my guns). Went 3 for 5 right off the bat, then the wheels fell off and I slid into a slump. Finally realized I was over leading those birds badly, cut my leads back, and ended the afternoon with 13 for the pan/grill. Hoping for two things at the same time for tomorrow afternoon.......... fair weather so we can combine and haul corn, and rainy weather so I can shoot doves instead. I just need to be two persons at this time of year! |
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09-04-2022, 02:57 PM | #16 | ||||||
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great pictures and story as always Garry
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09-05-2022, 08:11 AM | #17 | ||||||
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Our opening day hunt came with much anticipation and did not disappoint
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09-05-2022, 08:35 AM | #18 | ||||||
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Ahhhh...hunting season again! No better smile than on young hunters with their prize.
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09-05-2022, 06:55 PM | #19 | ||||||
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Inspired by Stan H.
I've read with great interest Stan's accounts of taking dove with a .410. I thought I'd like to try the same. After taking birds with my DH, I decided to break out my new-to-me H&H that has a set of .410 barrels (to go with its original 28 bore barrels). Yesterday I tried some walk-up hunting -- our WMA dove fields were empty of hunters(!) -- and was quickly humbled, taking only a couple of birds.
I went back today with a chair and sat for an hour or so and had some slow, but steady action -- and shot better. I'm still getting used to shooting this gun, but was surprised when I walked off a clean kill at 37 steps (farther than I estimated the shot). It was fun. Thanks, Stan, for the inspiration. I'll never shoot the scores on dove that you have, but it was a nice change and challenge.
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09-05-2022, 08:29 PM | #20 | ||||||
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What a beautiful gun to get your feet wet with a .410 on doves with! Be careful ........... they're addicting!
My next goal with a .410 is a limit of 3 woodies. I'm about to load up some tungsten, like the guys are using now for turkeys, and give it a go this duck season. If it'll flatten a 25 lb. gobbler at 60 steps, like I know it will, it will be dog nuts on woodies. Probably shoot clean through them. |
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