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10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
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10/05/09 12:15 AM
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gp08
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Me and my buddy woke up early and got set up at my sunflower field by 8:00. It was chilly, drizzling, and foggy. I was curious on how the birds would be flying but said to my self, i cant shoot them at home so lets go! I have seen them fly in the rain and have seen them not fly when its raining. So we are set up with a mojo and some dekes in the near by dead tree ready to go. We sit on the sunflower field for a hour and a half and see only 8 birds. All to far to shoot. So i said lets leave and go to a milo field that i know of. We hunt the milo field from 10am-12:00. We saw a lot more birds... white wing, morning dove, and eurasians. I ended up shooting 9 morning dove and 6 eurasian dove. My buddy shot 4 morning dove and 3 eurasian dove. Out of my 9 morning dove only 2 of them were over a year old. Lots of small morning dove that i saw. I was surprised to shoot this many this morning in the first place. While we were driving around we did see a bunch of dove on power lines but not flying to feed because of the rain.
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: gp08]
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10/05/09 02:54 AM
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TreeBass
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nice going, at least you got out there
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: TreeBass]
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10/05/09 04:03 AM
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CTK3
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Try dove hunting the west texas style.
Drive the county roads with a case of beer popping them of high lines and fence lines. Occasionally you will jump a covey of quail that are in the bar ditches, so be ready to take them also.
You may as well remove the plug from your shotgun, because sometimes those dove will be sitting in flocks of 7-8 birds.
(I'm joking, looks like y'all had fun)
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: CTK3]
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10/05/09 04:16 AM
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codyf89
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nice i went this evening around shallowwater I didnt see many dove so i started walking around the bottom of a dry playa lake and my dog busted three coveys of bobwhites I wanted to pull the trigger so bad
Last edited by codyf89; 10/05/09 04:20 AM.
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: codyf89]
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10/05/09 05:24 AM
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WhiskeyandMe
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I have had some good hunts around there back in the day! Thanks for sharin'... One time we had an awesome hunt in a cotton field! J.J.
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: WhiskeyandMe]
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10/05/09 06:36 PM
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gp08
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codyf89- thats good to hear you found some bobwhites out there. There is some land that i hunt around that area but have not yet been to. CTK3- Sounds fun! you should come up here and be the driver.
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: gp08]
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10/05/09 06:37 PM
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Moose K
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Me and my buddy woke up early and got set up at my sunflower field by 8:00. It was chilly, drizzling, and foggy. I was curious on how the birds would be flying but said to my self, i cant shoot them at home so lets go! I have seen them fly in the rain and have seen them not fly when its raining. So we are set up with a mojo and some dekes in the near by dead tree ready to go. We sit on the sunflower field for a hour and a half and see only 8 birds. All to far to shoot. So i said lets leave and go to a milo field that i know of. We hunt the milo field from 10am-12:00. We saw a lot more birds... white wing, morning dove, and eurasians. I ended up shooting 9 morning dove and 6 eurasian dove. My buddy shot 4 morning dove and 3 eurasian dove. Out of my 9 morning dove only 2 of them were over a year old. Lots of small morning dove that i saw. I was surprised to shoot this many this morning in the first place. While we were driving around we did see a bunch of dove on power lines but not flying to feed because of the rain. That looks like the back of my truck while I was at Tech, minus a few hundred empty beer cans, of course. Looks like a fun hunt, way to go!
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: Moose K]
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10/05/09 08:59 PM
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gp08
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hahaha... Yea i pick up all my shells and just throw them back of my truck every trip and at the end of all the waterfowl/upland/ and migratory seasons to see how much i go through then throw them away.
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
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10/05/09 10:17 PM
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udamdan
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
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10/06/09 01:10 AM
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Charlito
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I've had some of my best dove hunts while I was in school at Tech. We used to hunt a cotton field off east 4th street.
the thing about baiting is, even a rookie hunter could have a 170 bird season if they bait holes
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Re: 10-4-09 Dove hunting Lubbock area
[Re: Charlito]
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10/06/09 09:15 PM
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westtexaswatkins
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