Dove Hunting

[Roger]

I got this email through the site's information account. Can anyone help this guy out?


To Whom It May Concern:


I have had bad luck with hunting out here. Not that I don’t spend the time and money and do my part. This is the second year I’ve put in for deer and antelope tag. I did get drawn for a doe antelope (whoopee) and sifted to the leftover tags and went with a zone 20 antlered deer only tag for November 3-9 (chose this for my work schedule, and nervous about the weather ruining this).

I am now searching for a dove field to hunt in early September. I drove all the way out to Ellicott yesterday looking for any potential places. I stopped at this place that says “Welcome Hunters” on the side. So I stop in for a cold drink and ask if he knew of anyone that would be having a dove field this year. The old man of all of 75 years says, “What’s that? I’ve been in business for 40 years and never heard of a dove field.”

What is this with deer tags being for 8 days, you have to do your scouting and decide where you want to hunt 6 months in advance. Then if someone offers to take you hunting anywhere else you are just out of luck again. All hunting information about public land is so buried in the details that it is REDICULOUS. Hunting clubs and outfitters are trying to make six figures off of a handful of hunters. Colorado Hunting is so commercialized and only accessible to the wealthy and the ranchers. I am in the Navy and I get a “shore tour” every 4 years. Needless to say my military career has not been conducive to something I love such as hunting, but I regret wasting my time in such a liberal state.

I know it’s not your fault, but if anyone cares, I am expressing the viewpoint of many military members that love the outdoors and all that it entails. There are some things that I love about Colorado, but I don’t want to bash Coloradan’s for something that they can’t help. Unfortunately Colorado hunters need to make a serious overhaul of who is running the show out here. I wish I could go back to South Carolina, but that’s not where my duty takes me. Hope you haven’t taken offense to anything I have said, just venting and looking to try to make this year better than the last in Colorado.

Respectfully,

Julian
Colorado Springs

[HunterCO]

CO is not a big dove hunting state. There are dove fields but they are all private. CO has walk in areas you have to buy a $20 stamp but that is geared toward pheasants.

He draws a doe antelope tag and then says whoopee? Well WTF did he put in for a doe tag if that is not what he wants to hunt? He buys a left over deer tag and bitches about the weather. I am sorry that in CO we can not control the weather like they can in SC. There is over 14 million acres of national forest and another 2 million of BLM more than enough places to hunt on public land.

This guy is no hunter he is a shooter. He wants somebody with a food plot to let him shoot a deer for next to nothing. I think the Navy should relocate him to NY, CA, NJ, MA or IL so he can get a lesson on what a liberal state is really like.

EDIT: I left the one out meant 14 not 4.

[Marlin]

Heck, I've seen so many Doves in town this Year it might be a good one "IF" the weather holds. Like Tim said, The Guy sounds more like a shooter than a hunter.

I might add, It's the Guys like that, I haven't really been serious about hunting the last few years. Sounds like the type the would say; "Oooh, look an orange deer, Them must be rare"

[shrapmetal]

orange deer taste the best

[Colorado Osprey]

I am now searching for a dove field to hunt in early September. I drove all the way out to Ellicott yesterday looking for any potential places. I stopped at this place that says “Welcome Hunters” on the side. So I stop in for a cold drink and ask if he knew of anyone that would be having a dove field this year. The old man of all of 75 years says,

He was soooo close. Just 5 miles south of where he was having a drink is a State Trust Land called "Squirrel Creek" and it has stock tanks on it that at morning and evening have dove coming into them.

[shrapmetal]

He was soooo close. Just 5 miles south of where he was having a drink is a State Trust Land called "Squirrel Creek" and it has stock tanks on it that at morning and evening have dove coming into them.

yes, but i belive you have to be on horse back or walk in don't you? that may be too much effort for someone that can't find a place to hunt in colorado.

[Colorado Osprey]

True, very true, you will walk 1/2 to 1 mile into the land to get to the stock tanks. But driving up either Peyton Highway, Ellicott Highway or Squirrel Creek Road and you will see lots of dove on the power wires so you know they are around. These are 2 of the 3 roads that border the trust land. This is not a walk in access land that you have to pay extra for, but there is no auto traffic allowed.

[HunterCO]

True, very true, you will walk 1/2 to 1 mile into the land to get to the stock tanks. But driving up either Peyton Highway, Ellicott Highway or Squirrel Creek Road and you will see lots of dove on the power wires so you know they are around. These are 2 of the 3 roads that border the trust land. This is not a walk in access land that you have to pay extra for, but there is no auto traffic allowed.

Come on now that is not hunting you expect me to walk 1 mile and then have to haul out some doves? If I can't take my ATV to haul out my game especially if I get five or six doves that is too much work.

The whole reason CO hunting sucks is because of this, You should be able to pull up in your truck hang the barrel out the window and shoot something ten feet from the road.

[Wallary]

O M F G! What a wiener Juilan must be. Give me a break (Ellicott) lol! What's that a whole 15 mile outside the city limits of Co.S. You ain't in Kansas anymore Dorthy! The last time I checked you can't hunt Dove in the Bars. Drive out in the country and find the birds is what we've all done in the past. Common sense tells me to check with the CDOW before you hunt in an area your not familiar with not the locale pub. Last year with all the snow they got in South East Colorado you'd think the winter wheat would of been the best it's ever been in decades. Thus creating some good habitat for migrating Dove this spring. I'll bet the CRP grasslands will be flourishing with Dove this year.

[shrapmetal]

i live out east and see dove everyday going to work. it's really green out here and i have seen more wildlife out here than ever before.