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 Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/22/17 04:26 PM
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longgunner
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It is my understanding that Hondo has become a fantastic place to hunt dove each year due to the sunflowers that are planted and all the white wing dove that have migrated to South Texas. A few questions:
1) Was the Hondo area this good 15-20 yrs ago, or did it just take off due to intentional planting of sunflowers?
2) Are most of the dove white wing or do morning dove hit the area also?
3) Are there other areas around Texas with thick white wing populations that can duplicate what the ranchers / hunters have done around that area? I'm thinking Abilene area....
Any thoughts are appreciated.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/22/17 07:19 PM
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txtrophy85
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Hondo hunting for the most part has always been good. The last 15 years or so the white wing population has really exploded.
The Waco area has a lot of white wing. It's possible they could duplicate it there
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/22/17 07:35 PM
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colt45-90
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San Antonio has the closet's thing to Hondo that I have experienced, if you can find a spot on one of the flyways.
hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/22/17 09:39 PM
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anyone know any Hondo area outfitters?
SPACE FOR RENT
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/22/17 10:52 PM
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txtrophy85
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Paloma pachanga or Steve Wilson
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/23/17 12:04 AM
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don k
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You have never seen what it looks like in the mornings and afternoon the amount of doves crossing 173 or Hwy 90. It looks like the pictures you see from South America.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/23/17 03:26 AM
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therancher
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Nooner ranch. Incredible.
Crotchety old bastidge
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
[Re: therancher]
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04/23/17 04:50 AM
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txtrophy85
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Nooner ranch. Incredible. Noonsr sold to Paloma pachanga
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/24/17 11:02 AM
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topwater13
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Very few mourning dove down there in my experience.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/26/17 01:22 PM
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kweber
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Very few mourning dove down there in my experience. mourning doves are very good, here... just not at the sunflower spots...
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/26/17 01:33 PM
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It's been about 15 years since I hunted there but the hunting was great for both species.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/27/17 08:54 AM
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kweber
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tank shooting!
been doing that for a few decades...
always a hot tank somewhere where the birds drink...
Sept thru early Nov is prime time
also, late sesame is the ticket for M-doves....
we have had many very good to premiere shoots over it...
Dec/Jan season has been great over Nov cut sesame...
gotta know where to go...
having friends, neighbors and relatives, helps...
really good shoots...
we shoot WW's Labor day, then switch to mourning doves...
back when the state-wide season was Sept1 thru Oct31, and before the white-wings, we shot fields early and tanks later..
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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04/30/17 01:04 PM
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TexasLandAgent
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Absolutely ridiculous volumes of dove around Hondo. We used to hunt day leases in Dunlay and it was always a massacre.
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Re: Hondo Dove hunting - looking for history and a few questions
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05/01/17 09:31 AM
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kweber
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all they need is feed...
WW nest in flocks, so an urban area is perfect...
think Valley grapefruit groves...
a suburb full of bird feeders w/access to water and nest trees...
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