I hunted by my house this AM. 5 shots no birds using a gun I haven't used in along time = a single shot 20 gauge, so I'm not tempted to sky blast :)The hunters close to me were probably glad when I came out of my house - about a 100 eurasians, mourning, and whitewing dove flew out of my trees when I shut the back door Followed by nearby blam, blam, blams about 5-10 seconds later.

This is the first time I've hunted dove in quite a few years. All those dove flying in to roost on my place every night wee too big a temptation. This afternoon will tell the story. At least I will stir them up for someone else to shoot. I'm on the north edge of Merkel city limits and have neighbors fairly close, so i restrict the directions I shoot so I don't pepper their houses. They are far enough away it wouldn't hurt anything, but still.

Saw something I had never seen in the field before. I had several Inca dove fly past me at different times. There are a lot of them in town. I've seen Incas, mourning, eurasians, and whitewing (and pigeons)all drinking out of the same water puddle at the same time by the Methodist Church in town. Anyway ,when the Incas were flying at or by me, each time I was bringing up my gun and pulling it down and on and on - "dove, no, dove?, no?, ahh an Inca dove"

Killed 6 with lots of wasted ammo.