I just wanted to add this not that anyone cares but it’s informational IMO. So, this same property we hunted last Monday is owned by a guy called Skeeter (nickname) I used to work with. About one hour from here. It’s probably 60 acres with trees on the north and a pond on the south. In 2003, another guy (Stan) I used to work with called me and said I should hunt with him and his son in law on opening day at Skeeter’s. So my 10 yoa son at the time and I went out and got there late because I forgot the directions. Anyway, we heard shooting as we pulled up. Stan and his son in law were banging away at doves in a field south of the trees. They each already had 10-12 birds apiece. I think I ended up with 12 birds and my son had a couple with his .410 single shot. Most were Eurasian doves. So this went on for the next ten years where 12-15 bird limits in a few hours was the norm. Then one year, we saw probably 50-100 dove sitting on a corner house’s barbed wire fence in the fog when we pulled off the highway onto the county road headed towards Skeeters. We told Skeeter it would be great if we could hunt that property. He said we could because it was his son in laws parents property. So we hunted that for two seasons and 15 bird mourning dove limits in an hour was the norm. However, not ONE Eurasian was seen or taken over that property. They weren’t feeding on the wild sunflowers. Very strange IMO. Come to find out, this property had several acres of wild sunflower which the doves were feeding on unbeknownst to us all those years before when they came to Skeeter’s property to drink at his pond and roost in his trees. Anyway, the owner of that property sprayed herbicide on the property to get rid of the goathead stickers and the hunting at Skeeter’s has SUCKED ever since. Oh well, it was great while it lasted. Time to find another dove hunting spot.
