Dove Damage report

[budda]

Here is the damage report for this weekend. 28 Morning doves and 14 Eurasian doves with three people yesterday and 57 Morning doves and 12 Eurasian doves with five of us today. That is 111 doves total. I cant wait to grill them.[Beer]

How did everyone else do??

[10mm-man]

Here is the damage report for this weekend. 28 Morning doves and 14 Eurasian doves with three people yesterday and 57 Morning doves and 12 Eurasian doves with five of us today. That is 111 doves total. I cant wait to grill them.[Beer]

How did everyone else do??

Were and the heck did you get so many doves?

[Larry Ashcraft]

17 Hunters on my place Saturday. Somewhere around 120 doves, mostly collared, fell. Many more were missed They were flying heavy from 4:00 PM on.

Hardly any doves flying yesterday, but I did see a few this morning.

[budda]

Were and the heck did you get so many doves?

At my In-law's Farm outside of Greeley. I was a good two days.

[marty]

Need a tip. Given the summer heat, once you shoot them, do you clean and ice them immediately? (leaving a wing for identification).

[Great-Kazoo]

Were and the heck did you get so many doves?

We have that many sitting on the power lines here. I have a place just outside of city limits i can shoot until i run out of ammo.

[10mm-man]

We have that many sitting on the power lines here. I have a place just outside of city limits i can shoot until i run out of ammo.

That's Awesome man! [Beer]

[10mm-man]

At my In-law's Farm outside of Greeley. I was a good two days.

Sounds like a good way to spend two days!

[quondom fremd]

Not a single damn dove! [Rant1]

[mcsurveyer1361]

yup that was some fun budda we destroyed them.

[ssgenuine]

My son and I shot 16 Sat morning, no eurasians. We only had about 3 hours to hunt. Wife makes bacon puree and sticks it on em and we kabob them on the bbq, had a hatch pepper between each breast on the stick. Very, very good.

[Colorado Osprey]

Need a tip. Given the summer heat, once you shoot them, do you clean and ice them immediately? (leaving a wing for identification).

I keep a cooler of ice in the truck. As soon as you shoot them or as soon as possible you can put them whole on ice. All the doves I got were in great shape as I only clean once I'm home.... no or very little blood lividity. No problem that was with transportation of identification either.

Hunted south and saw NO collared dove, but I did see a few white wing.

[budda]

I keep a cooler of ice in the truck. As soon as you shoot them or as soon as possible you can put them whole on ice. All the doves I got were in great shape as I only clean once I'm home.... no or very little blood lividity. No problem that was with transportation of identification either.

Hunted south and saw NO collared dove, but I did see a few white wing.

This is what we did, to. So we could take pics after we were done. I have not had any taste issues keeping them whole and putting them on ice and then cleaning them after pics

[Larry Ashcraft]

We cleaned them at noon and sundown. No problems.

Wife makes bacon puree and sticks it on em and we kabob them on the bbq, had a hatch pepper between each breast on the stick. Very, very good.
We use bacon and peppers with kabobs, but none of those thin, stringy New Mexico chiles. We do a lot nicer job of peppers right here in Colorado.

[birddog]

We cleaned them at noon and sundown. No problems.

We use bacon and peppers with kabobs, but none of those thin, stringy New Mexico chiles. We do a lot nicer job of peppers right here in Colorado.

I wrap them up in bacon with a slice of Anaheim and some hard cheese. Mmmm.

[pepito]

Nice shootin! Have an urge to get on this.

[J]

Bad lighting, but here is our take and the proud (and tired) pup that fetched them all. 23 between two of us. Lost another 4 that we didn't get the dog on quick or accurate enough.

http://www.intelligentbydesign.net/post/doves2012.jpg

[buckshotbarlow]

we had a group of about 10 guys, we all limited in the morning on sat, sunday and monday. I did snap one pick, and will post later...All mourning dove, and it was basically hunt by water and protect the cows. from the evil dive bombers. I cannot believe how much grain those lil bastards eat when you get enough of them. All of em were full of corn/wheat/sunflowers. We were in McCook Ne...

[TRnCO]

I didn't get an exact count for the group that I hunted with, but I got my limit both on Sunday and Monday. I even used the 4-10 Monday evening to fill my limit, the shooting was just that good. One eurasion and I killed it.
We were out near Deer Trail.

[rondog]

(pssst...it's mourning doves, not morning. Comes from their call that sounds like a cry of mourning)

Man, I haven't hunted doves since I was in my 20's in OK! Always loved it, but we usually got skunked or only got a few. We always called them turtle doves, never understood where that name came from. Nowadays they come to my bird feeders.

[Hoof]

Glad the hunting is good. Will take the boy out this week, if it ever clears.

[Coteaudp]

Went a couple of weekends ago and didn't even see 2 dozen birds. The ones that did come by were hard to hit. It was my first dove hunt. If the birds are flying I can sure see what fun it would be shooting.

[Colorado Osprey]

We always called them turtle doves, never understood where that name came from. Nowadays they come to my bird feeders.

There are more than 40 species of dove. In Texas alone there are 12 different hunt-able species. Pigeons are a type of dove called Rock Dove.

Turtle Dove- From Turkey and North Africa and Southern Europe... not in the USA except as pets
http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/84284/large/C0019939-Turtle_dove-SPL.jpg

Mourning Dove: Native to North America
http://www.dpughphoto.com/images/mourning%20dove%20durham%2032709.JPG

Eurasian Collared Dove: Introduced into the Bahamas in the 1970's it's and invasive non-migratory species in the USA
http://accipiter.hawk-conservancy.org/images/200702/Collared%20Dove.jpg