Dove hunting.....

[AndyC]

The biggest part I found were its feet.

You blew him right out of his l'il legs?? I have no idea why my ribs are hurting so much right now, honest....

Congrats on your first dove-hunt - v-rog and I are heading to Lamesa (roughly between Big Spring and Lubbock) this weekend; I believe it'll be his first, too, so I'm aiming to take lots of pics. As I told him "You don't *have* a good side, but I have PhotoShop..."

[v-rog]

The biggest part I found were its feet.

You blew him right out of his l'il legs?? I have no idea why my ribs are hurting so much right now, honest....

Congrats on your first dove-hunt - v-rog and I are heading to Lamesa (roughly between Big Spring and Lubbock) this weekend; I believe it'll be his first, too, so I'm aiming to take lots of pics. As I told him "You don't *have* a good side, but I have PhotoShop..."

My ears were burning...could you repeat what you just said?

[The Annoyed Man]

The biggest part I found were its feet.

You blew him right out of his l'il legs?? I have no idea why my ribs are hurting so much right now, honest....

Congrats on your first dove-hunt - v-rog and I are heading to Lamesa (roughly between Big Spring and Lubbock) this weekend; I believe it'll be his first, too, so I'm aiming to take lots of pics. As I told him "You don't *have* a good side, but I have PhotoShop..."

My ears were burning...could you repeat what you just said?

So how did you guys do?

[AndyC]

It was a very wet weekend - we only got there (Lamesa area) around 1:30 am thanks to heavy rain. My car got stuck in clay about 500 yards from camp, so we left it there overnight. Unloaded our gear, threw it in the 4x4 and got to camp - immediately decided we needed breakfast and ate ourselves to sleep.

Once we headed out in the morning the 4x4 got stuck in mud, so we went on foot - none of us had waterproof boots, so it was cold, wet feet for us all day in the drizzling rain. The birds weren't flying very well in that weather, but I managed to bag 12 dove the whole day. It stopped raining in the afternoon, but the doves were mostly sticking to the telephone lines almost always out of range.

A local farmer, a relation to our friend Rockie came up in his tractor and towed the 4x4 out then we headed to my car to do the same, but by then it had dried sufficiently that I was able to rock the car forward and backward a number of times enough to get out by myself, then left the car at the farmer's house - we collected it on the way home on Sunday. That morning was a total bust for Rog and I, as we had to drive into the nearest town and buy gas for my car - our leader had missed the turnoff in the rain Friday night, so the extra 100 miles of gas I thought I had got depleted pretty quickly. Oh, well - an adventure of a kind

[The Annoyed Man]

That still comes in as one of those "a bad day hunting/fishing is better than a good day at work."

[puma guy]

It was a very wet weekend - we only got there (Lamesa area) around 1:30 am thanks to heavy rain. My car got stuck in clay about 500 yards from camp, so we left it there overnight. Unloaded our gear, threw it in the 4x4 and got to camp - immediately decided we needed breakfast and ate ourselves to sleep.

Once we headed out in the morning the 4x4 got stuck in mud, so we went on foot - none of us had waterproof boots, so it was cold, wet feet for us all day in the drizzling rain. The birds weren't flying very well in that weather, but I managed to bag 12 dove the whole day. It stopped raining in the afternoon, but the doves were mostly sticking to the telephone lines almost always out of range.

A local farmer, a relation to our friend Rockie came up in his tractor and towed the 4x4 out then we headed to my car to do the same, but by then it had dried sufficiently that I was able to rock the car forward and backward a number of times enough to get out by myself, then left the car at the farmer's house - we collected it on the way home on Sunday. That morning was a total bust for Rog and I, as we had to drive into the nearest town and buy gas for my car - our leader had missed the turnoff in the rain Friday night, so the extra 100 miles of gas I thought I had got depleted pretty quickly. Oh, well - an adventure of a kind

Andy it sounds like fun! But I have a question - Rain, mud, cold feet water looged feet, stuck trucks, are you sure it wasn't duck hunting?

[AndyC]

We asked the same thing :)

[puma guy]

We asked the same thing :)

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I'm sorry, but I'm laughing right now. Forgive me!

[AEA]

I made a great shot when I was younger.
Dropped 2 in one shot! The Older Guy I was hunting with just sat back down in his chair.

I had jumped up and was gettin' lined up on one bird but just before I pulled the trigger another one that was flying along in the group made a dodge move right into my pattern.

[Divided Attention]

I remember "Dove Hunting" with my dad when I was very little. I had my own "rifle" - it made the noise and "felt" like it shot, but had no projectile. You cocked it and aimed and fired, it kinda stung against your cheek when it fired and made a shooting sound. We went to an area that is now a subdivision called "Dove Meadows" and we brought several home. I hadn't thought about that "gun" in ages. For some reason the picture of the stuck truck brought back that memory - along with slogging through mud up to my knees in my little rubber boots.

Would love to go hunting with Dad again! He would sure love all the arms in our collection now. Learned so much from him - miss sharing with him. Figure his heaven has firearms and hunting of some sort!

[Greybeard]

Another note for newly minted rednecks: 4 wheel drive will git u stuck in places u can't git to with 2 wheel drive.

[Crossfire]

Another note for newly minted rednecks: 4 wheel drive will git u stuck in places u can't git to with 2 wheel drive.

Truer words were never spoken!

[Keith B]

Another note for newly minted rednecks: 4 wheel drive will git u stuck in places u can't git to with 2 wheel drive.

Truer words were never spoken!

Been there, done that, got the muddy t-shirt and boots.

[v-rog]

After AndyC's car sank in the wet mud, we had to carry our equipment about 300 yds to the 4x4...


Hopefully this pic will serve as a reminder for me not to bring 200 lbs. of equipment to the next dove hunt

[v-rog]

And I should probably wear long pants...