Dove season starts Sat.......

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jaughtman

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and my Superposed is just RARING to get in the field! Anyone else got a new gun over the off-season that will get "broken in" this weekend?

J
 
Dove season starts Thursday here in CA. I went a tad crazy this off season and purchased a used 1100 and picked up a new Maxus. I have shot both at hand thrown trap over the summer but with only 2 days remaining till the season it's a toss up on which is going out with me opening morning.
 
We have about another month here in FL - they first have to come down and get past everyone else in the East - just means we get the challenging "battle-hardened" survivors!....:D
 
Dunno when I'm going, or where, but there's maybe 5 decent dove guns here. Favorite, hard to say, but the little SKB 20 gauge might be it....
 
I bought my property here in Tennessee three years ago with the anticipation of dove hunting. With corn and soybean fields surrounding me, no doves will fly over my property. I see a few of them on electric lines now and then, but the population here seems meager? Go figure? I have more humming birds than doves.

So, because of my dissatisfaction, I've invented a new curse word!

DOVE IT!
 
Dennis- Im originally form SW Kentucky. Wait until the corn starts getting cut and you will see them in huge numbers. It never looks like there are a lot of doves around there until the buffet hits town at harvest time.
 
Her in PA the season starts Thursday, I can hardly wait!!!! I will be taking out my old Charles Daly O/U in twelve. So much fun is only 2 days away!!

Antique Shooter
 
Let's Talk Turkey

Well, actually dove breasts. How do all ya prepare them? One of my favorite ways is to marinate them in Italian dressing in the refrigerator for a few hours. Wrap them in a small piece of bacon and grill them over charcoal. Yum Yum!

Next time, should I be fortune enough to shoot any, I was thinking about baking them with stove top dressing and see how that comes out?
 
Saturday is our opener. Our sunflowers weathered the wind and rain from Irene pretty well and there are 2-300 birds feeding every afternoon. We should have a good hunt.
 
I like to wait a little bit later in the month--the mosquitos will eat you alive around here---esp this year with all the flooding.
 
Doves

There is no closed season on "Rock" Pigeons here in NY and plenty of farms to shoot on; and the farm raised birds have such a pure and standardized diet of grains that they are absolutely delicious with fried onions or chopped up and mixed in with stuffing. As far as guns, once again I will start out trying to get my 1923 Fox to "fit" me. For the past few years I tried, got frustrated at my own muscle menory which pretty much locks me in to my Wingmaster, and went back to the pump to devistate the flock. I simply don't put as much off season practice in to "refit" my muscles to the Fox (and I am too cheap to get a new stock fitted with the Wingmaster's dimensions).
Looking forward just the same.
Cheers,
Ed
 
After I get a few birds, I like to marinate the breasts in a little BBQ sauce for a few hours and then roast them in the oven, or grill them.

Antique Shooter
 
I got a new one..

I picked up a new 870 supermag..
Nice green reciever, cammo stock and forarm. 28"
I traded in my old 1100 for it, the 1100 was getting to finicky.
Pluss the barrles are to much for them.
A great gun that 1100..
But I like the pump as well.
And the barrles are cheaper..
And the 3 1/2 will help get them turkeys..
 
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