Hunting & Fishing Opening Day

[BobinNC]

In the fine southern tradition, tomorrow is opening day. Dove season kicks off the start of a new year of hunting.

There ain't nothin' finer, than to be humiliated in Carolina, by a scarcely 1 lb gray flying kamikaze.

Here's what they look like, when there not flying by at 50 MPH:

And here's what they look like when, by chance alone, they blunder into your shot stream:

I can almost smell the roast pig, sweet tea, corn, boiled potatoes as a prelude to the sweet fragrance of spent shot shells, lying in piles at my feet.

Heat, sweat, bugs and frustration, I can't wait till noon tomorrow. My 20 ga SxS, and four boxes of #8's to bag a slim meal of 15 feathered fools......

 

[tireys]

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Used to love/hate shooting the dove in Arizona near Yuma. Funniest thing I ever saw was a dove fly by 9 Marines and leave with hardly a feather left. Good luck and have fun.

 

[twadsw01]

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Can't wait for it. Sounds like a good meal you have planned there to open the festivities.

My first dove hunting experience was last year - ended up being some of my favorite game!

 

[0481]

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In commifornia its Sep. First. And our bag limit is 10 a day 20 in pos. To bad I don't have a good place to dove hunt anymore. So sad, my two oldest boys just got there licence and are asking when can we go dove hunting.

 

[twadsw01]

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NC is 15 daily, 30 pos.

Can y'all not hunt on public gamelands, 0481?

 

[0481]

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Yes we can. I am still alive and well. I don't want to get shot by some asshat that can't control the weapon or trigger finger. So I look for proverbial property to hunt. It's hard to get a land owner to let you hunt there property. I even offer to fix up there place, mend fence and gates, water lines and well houses and such. No dice for the most part.

 

[blklabs]

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The North Zone in Texas kicked off yesterday. I took out my 4 year old daughter for her first hunt in the afternoon. It was really hot, but we actually scratched out a 2/3 limit. She had fun which was the main thing. She figured it out pretty quick and when I got bored and dazed off she was telling me when the dove would head our way! I was a proud papa. Now if I can just get her to go pick them up for me I will be set, lol.

 

[JKaiser]

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Opening day for me was pretty scarce here in N Tx. Hoping this cool front will bring some with it on Monday.