Hunted the type 2 land today east of dallas, just north of Royce City this morning. Saw two dove at daybreak, then nothing the rest of the morning.

The place was littered with hunters and it sounded like World War 3 out there, but guys were just shooting at feild birds.

How about anyone else. Any luck east of dallas?

They were shooting at field birds? I think that any bird that doesn't have a season are illegal to shoot. I could be wrong. Not that I haven't busted quite a few meadowlarks when I was a kid and didn't know any better.

The place off 1777 will be crap until late season. It was planted last year, this year it was not. The fields adjacent to it which is a private hunting club/lease was planted with milo, but when I scouted it several weeks ago, saw two dove.

This was exactly where I was Cochise (I was on the public side of it of course), and it was dead dead dead. God help you if you were a meadowlark though, as they were raining down from the sky.

I scouted it a couple weeks ago, and I was surprised, as I'm sure you were, that nothing was planted (other than the private field).

If anyone has any tips on where to go around there that might be better, I would appreciate it.

cowboyway...i'd go to Elm Fork Shooting Range. Just like dove hunting but lots more to shoot at and you dont have to clean them! No way i'm wasting my vacation time for some yard pigeons...

wlgorman....I'm with you. I wasn't wasting my ammo on those yard pigeons either. But 30 other guys were going through cases of ammo on them.

It was kind of funny because the gunshots were going nonstop, but it was still a little too dark for me to see what they were shooting at, and I never had any dove fly by me, but when the sun came up a little more, and I quickly realized they were just shooting at anything in the sky.

There are birds out here just not those fields. I was cutting some hay and saw the trucks lined up on the public land.Fields were disced under several weeks ago. No ponds on those fields so not many birds. Not the smartest birds in the world but couple Fellas sitting on a flatbed in fold up chairs with Mojos on the headache rack aint going to work. I actually see more Dove in the city on commercial property than i do out here.I think they have figured out sprinklers and bird feeders are the way to go. State needs to move there public land to town might run off some vagrants as well.

we hunt the private side but have permission and that field has been planted and cut already it was soy beans, they harvested it weeks ago and there were a few birds on our side but it doesnt help when the public side has more mojos and decoys then the number of birds in the county scattered around a few hundred acres could hae been a info commercial for mojo, not saying they dont work but dang... plus side though we left that field had the same luck just no birds in those fields they were there 2 days ago though hunted a different private place with water and 2 of us shot our limits so idk even with the cloud cover and the somewhat cooler temps from the weather they are still looking for water

I don't know, but I found it easy to limit before 8am on that public land you guys are talkin about "shootin field birds" on, over a mojo? I'm just sayin.

Yeah I hear and beleive you. It does seem every year there is a "dis-information" thread...not that this is one necessarily ... anyhow not many of those filed /mojo /case of ammo shooters read these threads Id imagine... like that is going to dissuaded the fools from going in first place to the not near enough public land. Later on once most folks have used up last of their vacation and during workdays/week days...and each day is cooler and more yankee birds fly across the red it'll get better even.
Always did in the past.