anyone have any recipes for dove? friend gave us like half a dozen of these little fuckers, I've never cooked dove before. I would prefer to make poppers but BFF doesn't eat bacon
Think we just pop the breasts out and sautee in butter? Been a few years, and I think we may have wrapped them in foil and thrown them on the grill during a shoot. There certainly wasn't anything fancy about it. Kind of a lot of work for 6 little darkmeat nuggets.
NJ is a very flat, densely populated state. They say rifles travel too far to be safe. If it were up to me I’d say just mandate that rifles can only be used from an elevated position.
I wasn’t talking about brands. Sorry for confusion. I meant improved cylinder, modified cylinder or full.
Id say full. As close to a turkey type shot as possible. Different best for ducks or running dogs for deer. Wider pattern for more margin for error
Unless you’re planning on being right on top of the deer — e.g., a drive or dog hunt, I wouldn’t use anything other than full. There are also buckshot-specific chokes that might give you a slightly better pattern. Carlson’s makes one.
Shot a doe Friday afternoon. I was hunting a hardwood bottom with a pretty decent incline on either side. She fell all the way to the bottom when I shot her, so dragging her out was a huge bitch. Probably the last time I’m going to shoot a doe there.
On Thanksgiving morning I saw a doe and some fawns. Decided not to take the doe. My BIL saw some doe and some hogs but didn't shoot anything either. Later that night my sister in law was casually sipping wine in a tree stand, she's not that serious about hunting. Of course a 12 point buck walked out and she killed it.
My hand eye goes out the window when I drink . I start sucking at golf, shooting, etc. So I just avoid it when hunting. I'm fine with shooting dove then drinking beer after.
Man is that infuriating. Wind shifts and a buck gets a slight whiff of me and he’s out. They could’ve hunted that guy with a hammer if they chose to.
Obviously the doe is in estrus. Not often to that degree, but bucks lose all sense when they're in rut.
The campground we stay at has a “tame” doe that would walk through our camp. Smelled like shit, and a frisky 8 pointer would chase her around. He even went as far as trying to fight bucks we had hanging in a tree. Never occurred to me at the time but I should’ve fed her a cookie and rubbed my boots on her smelly ass.
I don't think I'd want to be standing that close to him in the rut. Seems like a greater than 0% chance that fucker could try (and successfully) fuck you up.
I can’t tell you the last dove shoot or deer hunt in a shooting house I didn’t have a cooler of beer with me...
I’ve been tempted to bring beer with me to a deer blind but figured I ended up needing to pee before I was done hunting
Some shooting houses I have sat in have a funnel in the back with a pvc pipe that goes into the ground. They also spend way too much money on some of these said shooting houses
We used to shotgun a High Life in the dark before the first drive of the day if we'd gotten skunked the day before. Mmmm, cheap beer and the taste of toothpaste. Can't tell you if it worked, but you wake up quick if you think you're getting ready to yak....
Heading to my friend's camp for a couple days. I have no deer tags for there, but I do have a bear tag. Good excuse to hang out, take my rifle for a walk, and nap in the woods.
wes tegg not sure if the origin for the Alabama fan smiley was this thread or the Facebook thread but it strikes again
Filled my tag for the first time since 2012. He's not my biggest but it broke my drought and after the year I've had, I'm pretty tickled.
Yep. Guy in our group shot that. 125 yds with open sights from a 12 Guage. Saw the whole thing and it was awesome.
Just put a deposit on a chocolate lab pup. One day I’ll figure out how to post pics of her. But new hunting buddy is on the way.
Went yesterday and damn if I didn’t wound the cull 6 I shot. Hit it in the shoulder and it made it out of the field. Was an absolute monster out there I could have shot if the 6 wasn’t in the field
Grabbed an old office chair last year that was being thrown away and tossed in one of our shooting houses. I can lean back, spin around for different shots, all while being dead silent. Much more comfortable than a camp chair.