Anyone else gettin antzy for Bird Season?

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I picked up a Antonio Zoli 12 ga. A few days ago. Now I remember what it is like gettin that new bike at Christmas, and there's two feet of snow outside...:(

Anyrate, flushed two Partridge while we were picking Blackberries, behind the house last night.:)
 
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Last year I hunted exclusively with Flintllocks. This year will be nothing but old shotguns....can't wait. :)


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:) About all we have in Tennessee is dove. The quail are all but gone. :mad: Quail is what I really liked hunting when I was young. Don
 
Ready for that opening day BBQ and a good dove shoot. Have to wait til Oct 1 here in Florida, be here before you know it........at least that's what I keep telling myself.
 
Can't wait for the last Saturday in October for Pheasant season. Might even see a few Partridges if I'm lucky!:D
My Model 12 Winchesters are all ready to go.
Jim
 
YUP! Can't wait 'till Pheasant Season. I have been bird hunting since I was 14 and I still get exited about this time of year. Don't know weather it's the actual hunt, the cigars, the Jack, or the BS stories around the fire in the evenings, but whatever it is.........I love it! Only missed one season in 44 years due to terrible weather, so I just hope this Fall is good.

Chief38
 
Around our place, opening day of dove season (Labor Day) is like a family reunion…my brother, my sister, a couple three nephews, my wife and myself. Even the sheriff joins in when he has the chance—a good friend and first-class hunter. In the evening everyone contributes some dove and my wife and I cook up a big meal. We try to ensure that everyone has a great time and that all leave well-fed.

This year I will be setting out some ribs just in case. I haven't seen a dove since the beginning of July. We have been so dry and hot that I haven't seen much wildlife in the fields or woods. That is not normal. We are quickly approaching forty days in a row of over 100 degree temperatures—104 today—and I can't remember the last time that we had a good rain.
 
Summer is officially over. I got my Cabella's Duck Hunting catalogue yesterday :D:D:D
Might even but me one of those $200 duck calls :eek:
Or some of those new fangled shotgun shells with hexagon shaped #2 shot-and one of those motorizied decoys. Man How did I ever hunt back in the days of hip waders, lead shot and my 1967 1100?????????????
 
We haven't had a Gambel quail season worth mentioning in years --- long drought, few birds, all spooky. I don't have any interest in dove hunting. I miss Michigan grouse hunting, and those few sweet days when woodcock were passing through our swamps and alder thickets...
 
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In 80 days Tennexplorer and I will be back in SD with some other good friends.

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September 2 - 11 we will be shooting at (Notice I didn't say killing) every dove that flutters over my 640 acres of paradise. We planted 50 acres of stripped millet and sunflowers this year just for the doves. Following dove season we have a few weeks of deer seasons followed by two weeks in Saskatchewan shooting ducks and geese. October 23 - November 5 will be spent in North Dakota and Montana shooting pheasant and partridge. I guess it's about time to bust out the Benelli SBE2 and Remington 1100 and start shooting some clay pigeons to get in practice for the up and coming bird seasons.

Looks like you all had some fine shooting last year. Best of luck this year.

Class III
 
My two favorite months out of the year. I usually go three days a week in the beginning and towards the end when rain & flooding are a problem, I go every day - less hunters. My only problem is trying to get my llewellin setter in shape. I take her out every day to run the trails, but then she bootlicks. I gave up on trying to get her to run so I figure if she won't run I'll get her in shape by walking. Now, I go for 2hr walks/daily.
 
We were just discussing the upcoming season yesterday. We're seeing plenty of grouse around the hills and secondary roads. You have to walk a fair piece for every bird you find though. Early this morning, a falcon stood in the roadway eating some roadkill and defiantly refused to move off as I slowed the truck down to a crawl to avoid hitting it. Had to blow the horn to get it to fly away. It's about the fourth or fifth time I've seen one here over the past few weeks. In over 25 years of hunting this area, I never saw one, except for the usual common red tail hawks and black vultures.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to grouse hunting and have my favorite 20ga. primed and ready to go. Good luck to all of you and enjoy the season!

Cheers;
Lefty
 
Since Ohio grouse are few and far between locally, no excitement here. :(
 
Are you kidding?? I am *** deep in pheasants and doves, and just about any kind of waterfowl you can name!!! Was this really a serious question???
 
Echo w/ KELLY GREEN....here in east Texas we're somewhere around 55 days of over 100 degrees, most of the tanks and ponds either dry or almost so.....had doves everywhere until about two weeks ago...all gone now...no grass left, feeding grain and hay to the horses everyday...

On a different tangent the night guys found what appears to be several thousand marijuana plants in three fields overnight...been out there since before daylight gathering same....
 
I get keener on it every day. I'll be down in the Phoenix, AZ area, hunting with some lifelong friends. We'll slaughter the doves, as usual, then later on will give the quail some havoc, then even later it'll be time to lay into those ducks and geese. We ALWAYS do very well, and I expect no differently this coming fall. And, after the hunts come the delicious BBQ, or smoked birds. Mmm-mmm. C'mon, September!
 
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