A troubled dove hunter..

I'm going to be one of the many APH hunters this year for dove. I live in Houston, so the only real choices within a reasonable driving distance is China, tx or Waller. What to do, what to do??? I went to China today and it doesn't look promising at all and Waller said no scouting in the handbook but contemplating driving by anyways. Where would yall go. Dilemmas suck..

Waller hands down

Follow the rules. No scouting. Just go for a nice quiet drive.

I can't believe there wasn't any birds in china. Is that stuff planted in rice this year?

Yea it's rice, just a few resident birds and 1 flock of 5. That was it

There is food and water every where for the birds, they seem thin every where.

Bingo

Guess I'll make the trip to China again, I'm not buying a hunt for doves been on to many not so good dove hunts

I've heard there's no birds in Waller. You shouldn't hunt there

I'm going to swing by Waller tomorrow after work and see what's going on. The weather forecast doesn't look to pretty for opening week and wkend.. Who all is going Tuesday after work??

Okay I'll take the bait where is Waller??

West Houston

I'm going Tues before and after work.

That is about all we ever have around here is resident birds. The further you are from Beaumont the worse the hunting is usually. If you can find where a rice truck spilled some rice you can have some good hunting out that way.

I used to live a few miles from that spot in Waller, hunted it many times, but it's been about 8 years. The people that own the land live about 3/4 down the road that parallels length of field. I've talked with the guy a few times, he's a pretty decent guy. Will shoot you a PM

Should not have a problem with keeping the birds moving, there is a dove lease less than a mile from the PHL. A couple hundred guns at least.