Official thread of the dove hunting pic contest

[dennishoddy]

Our benevolent forum owner JB Books is sponsoring some hunting contests this year.

First off is Dove season opening Sept 1. First season ends Oct. 31. Even though there is a late season, we are going to run the contest during the first season only.

This is how its going to happen. When your finished with your hunt take a picture of your harvest, and post it in this thread along with a story about the hunt.
On or about Oct 31, I will film and use a random number generator to select the post number in this thread. It will be ran 5 times, the fifth time will determine the winner by the post number.

We welcome pics of every hunt your on for entries, and please use the honor system to make sure the pics you post are from different hunts.

The winner will get a $50 gift certificate, so that's a nice prize on top of a great time in the field.

We are also running a contest of kids in camo that are on the hunt with you. You can certainly post pictures of the kids for the contest in this thread and also in the kids in camo thread. Both will be eligible for the final prize.

Any post in this thread without a pic related to the hunting contest rules will be deleted.

Enough of the silly rules, lets get out there and hunt!

 

[Okie4570]

Managed 14 this evening. Daughter shot 1 and a buddy shot 6. Pretty slow on the KS line this evening..........the last dozen years or so, it's been stellar for the first week or so. All the birds were small, so I don't think there's a whole lot here yet.

 

[dennishoddy]

Did an evening hunt with some friends on my place. Saw a few birds until 7:00pm and then they came in swarms. Many hundreds of dove started coming in. It was non stop shooting for an hour until sunset. Amazing the number of birds coming in.
The problem was the shoulder high grass and finding the downed birds. Watch them go down, and they couldn't be found. Perfect place for a dog to retrieve them because we sure couldn't find them.

 

[Porter]

The action was fast and furious this morning. My 4th bird of the day was banded, so needless to say the season couldn't have started off much better. About 5 minutes later I missed a bird twice that was in my wheelhouse and my buddy across the field cleaned him up. Another band! We all finished up out limits by 830 and got out to keep the birds comfortable. Certainly a hunt I will never forget!

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[Sticky Stokes]

I managed 11 yesterday morning, should of had a limit but had gun issues all morning with the Winchester 1400 autoloader, jamming, trying to cycle 2 shells. etc... switched to the 870 12 gauge and finally started hitting. Went back yesterday evening, took my dad and 8 year old boy with me, finished my limit, the boy killed his first solo dove with an old Stevens 4-10 my dad gave me 40 years ago. He ended up killing 2, I killed 4 and dad killed the rest. 3 generations hunting together, a very fun and special evening hunt.

 

[Okie4570]

Birds like flies over no till wheat ground this evening. Shooting was ugly and still only took 25 minutes.

Sticky's "generation" pic for the win........lock this thread up!

 

[jbrentd]

Took my son on our first (both his and mine) dove hunt. We didn't get our limit, but had a great time together in the field.

 

[Okie4570]

Fast and furious this evening....first dad/daughter limits this evening! (My feeble attempt at using the timer on my cell to take a pic, next to impossible to balance that thing on a bucket!)

 

[SPDguns]

Ellis County, Day 1- We got into several Eurasian Collared. The shotgun is a 1960 Browning Superposed .20. It will be the gun I keep until I die. Second pic is the 4th or 5th covey of quail we jumped. We saw more quail than dove this year. (The quail hunt has already been scheduled!) Third pic is the second day sunrise. It was awesome and worth the trip alone. Last pic is two more Euros. About a third of the birds we saw were Euros. We ended up with a total of 6 Euros and about 35 total for two guys on a two day hunt. Had we been better shots, we would have easily limited out......

 

[dennishoddy]

Went to the roost where we saw so many birds this morning thinking I would get some action.
Shooting time started at 0702. By 0700 all birds had left the area but two.