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Post by astroprof on Sept 1, 2009 8:57:03 GMT -5
Here's another good reason. I was out on the scoot the other day, turned at the bottom of the street and there's a flock of doves standing in the middle of the road. One flew right into the windscreen and bounced off. Glad I have an extension. Bird in the face is bad!
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Post by Rebel on Sept 1, 2009 11:26:17 GMT -5
did you have a hunting license for that dove? are they in season where you live?
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Post by astroprof on Sept 1, 2009 14:01:15 GMT -5
Rebel - I think they actually came in season today but they're federal "Migratory Game Birds" - need a special stamp. If I wanted to break Fed law, there's about 6 under my bird feeder right now. Quick pop with the old pellet gun. Unfortunately, the wife frowns on such activity.
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Post by Rebel on Sept 1, 2009 14:05:59 GMT -5
I have a wife just like that. Lost my hunting partners about 20 years ago when I moved and never found anybody I felt comfortable hunting with after that. Personally dove are not worth the effort, but I used to really like quail.
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Post by astroprof on Sept 1, 2009 15:47:52 GMT -5
We used to try and hunt doves. Stand at the end of the cornfield etc. Wasted a lot of shells! Quail are really rare around here except for stocked birds at shoot clubs. We're too high up and too cold in the winter. Pheasants don't do well either. We have grouse, turkey and woodcock.
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Post by Rebel on Sept 1, 2009 16:00:47 GMT -5
Dove really are not that hard to hit if you lead them a little and not try to shoot right at them, they fly too fast for that and outrun the shot. As I recall, you aim at them and then just pull the barrel just out in front of them and they will fall pretty easily, if you are using the right shot. The mountains near me are pretty full of quail, getting permission to hunt is a problem though.
now is this a hunting forum or should we turn into one?
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Post by mrsjr on Sept 1, 2009 19:12:03 GMT -5
Well guys have to report that old JR has still not solved the windshield thing! I can't fuss at him for not working on the lexan stuff from Lowe's cause the man is almost buried alive in the garden! Whew! Felt sorry for him this evening when I come in from nursing school and started shelling purple hull peas! He picked another bushel today! Also picked a 1/2 bushel of zipper peas! He started canning veggies at 4:00 a.m this morning and right now has another canner full of beautiful whole kernel sweet corn. He cut if off the cob today! I say with a little luck he'll finish his last canner full around 11:00 p.m tonight! He also cooked down a five gallon bucket of tomatoes and said he is going to make me some more salsa! That man has canned 52 pints of salsa one for every week!
He was in contact with the folks on Ebay and they even sent him some pictures and he emailed them back and asked for one measurement to see if it would indeed fit but they never answered! He said when he catches up some he'll tackle it again. But heck it's going to be cold soon and no more bugs until next year and I don't ride in the cold!
Quail huh now I can tell a story or tow about them, JR hunts them and also my dad and uncles. Arkansas in this area is full of them! Another name is the Bob White! Old JR will go out and kill a mess of them and I fry them up for dinner along with some hot biscuits and gravy! Doves are hear everywhere because of the corn and soy bean fields and we even have them sit out on the power lines and watch them and also feed a lot of birds in the winter!
JR leaves some of his poorer corn on the stalk and lets it dry then picks it and mixs it with sunflower seeds and we feed the birds all winter long with it!
I am not a hunter but JR has a lot of gun stuff even loads his own shells and man he can shoot them things! He like doves to eat but I'm not that crazy about them.
As far as quail very popular here, even some folks raise and sell them.
Mrs JR
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Post by sheri on Nov 15, 2009 16:16:18 GMT -5
MrsJr Did the Givi work? Or did jr figure out how to double bend the windshield?
sher
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