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Dove season starts before dawn now?
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:14 pm
Is that right? Used to be during the day on the opener. What happened?
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Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:33 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Too hot to start @ noon, and too easy to start drinkin’ beer. I like the change.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:46 pm to Captain Rumbeard
Been that way for a while now.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 12:50 pm to Captain Rumbeard
:whatyearisitgif
You don’t have to start then if you don’t want to
You don’t have to start then if you don’t want to
Posted on 9/3/24 at 1:46 pm to Ron Cheramie
We generally skip the morning as we are somewhat set in our ways and just enjoy the afternoon experience because of: BBQ, CFB and beer. If a dove flies by, that's ok too.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 2:34 pm to Ron Cheramie
Been forever since I shot doves on opening day. I mean I never understood why it was like that to begin with.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 2:56 pm to Captain Rumbeard
the tradition of a noon opening goes way back to when farmers worked their fields early in the morning and a noon start allowed them time to participate
Posted on 9/3/24 at 3:15 pm to Chasseur
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the tradition of a noon opening goes way back to when farmers worked their fields early in the morning and a noon start allowed them time to participate
For years and years in Georgia it opened at noon on the first Wednesday in September. It was on Wednesday to keep anyone who worked for someone else from going on opening day. It changed to Saturday at noon because politicians would campaign at dove fields across the state on opening day. It was a noon start because traditionally it was a sport for the wealthy who could afford to waste shotgun shells on a target that was hard to hit and had very little meat on them when you did....no one cared and of course those who could afford to shoot doves were not prone to doing much before noon anyway. We shoot our field the first time the day after the opener and when there are birds present thereafter. The first shoot has always been a morning shoot because even when the opener was at noon the next day was at daylight and surrounding fields would be shooting.
Posted on 9/3/24 at 5:43 pm to AwgustaDawg
I have always found the late afternoon/evenings to be better than an early morning shoot
Posted on 9/4/24 at 6:42 am to Rip Torner
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I have always found the late afternoon/evenings to be better than an early morning shoot
Me too with one exception. I have access to a granite quarry where there is about 70 years worth of very fine granite dust spread over about a half acre patch of nothing but red clay and weeds. That dust is about 4 feet deep. Put three - 6 decoys in that dust about 8 AM, hide in the weeds about 30 yards away and around 9 AM every dove in the county, regardless of what season is open (first, second split, early, late, makes no difference) and regardless of how hard they have been pressured on feeding fields and water holes they will come to that granite dust to gravel. Its not a "pretty" setting like a properly prepped grain field, it looks like something out of a dystopian futuristic movie, but it draws birds better than all the cracked corn ever spread on a field. If it has rained and there is standing water on that granite its even more betterer! I have flushed ducks off that granite dust. Not often and they are not regular but even migratory ducks find that granite. It is seriously as good as baiting and is as legal as it can be.
Posted on 9/5/24 at 1:41 pm to Captain Rumbeard
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Dove season starts before dawn now?
No. It starts at dawn, which is 30 minutes before sunrise.
Buncha outlaws in here.
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