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 Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: shalor]
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08/13/21 12:45 PM
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shalor
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: shalor]
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08/13/21 03:09 PM
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Stompy
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Well, it’s been a while since I’ve shredded sunflowers. But I now remember it’s not very fun to shred 8 to 10 foot tall sunflowers in an open cab tractor. I’m going to take ski goggles next time. I had so much sunflower seed in my eyes even with wraparound sunglasses. But I got it done. And I saw probably 50 to 100 dove out there in the field already before shredding. Keeping my fingers crossed that they multiply. Where are you located?
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: GeneralLefty]
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08/14/21 04:03 AM
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skinnerback
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Best hunt of my life was in South Texas in a sunflower field.  Best dove hunt of my life was near Concepcion. I took a guy from work fishing, and put him on his first keeper and first limit of redfish and his first limit of trout. In return he took me dove hunting on his family's ranch. Big shredded milo field with a big pond in the middle surrounded by trees. It was insane. You could literally not reload fast enough, it was non stop groups of 30 to 100 birds. A real barrel burner. Fast forward 24 yrs, and my oldest Son is now married to his daughter and they made us Grandpas LOL. It's a small world.
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: skinnerback]
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08/14/21 06:13 PM
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Herbie Hancock
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Best hunt of my life was in South Texas in a sunflower field. Best dove hunt of my life was near Concepcion. I took a guy from work fishing, and put him on his first keeper and first limit of redfish and his first limit of trout. In return he took me dove hunting on his family's ranch. Big shredded milo field with a big pond in the middle surrounded by trees. It was insane. You could literally not reload fast enough, it was non stop groups of 30 to 100 birds. A real barrel burner. Fast forward 24 yrs, and my oldest Son is now married to his daughter and they made us Grandpas LOL. It's a small world. We did the special white wing zone last year in Uvalde opening weekend next to a sunflower field, the hunting wasn't as good as being on the field but damn those white wing would come from everywhere.
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: elvisp_bucks]
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08/14/21 06:36 PM
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Stompy
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Finished all my fields today, 1 hour before it started raining. Great timing, 257 acres done.
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: Stompy]
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08/14/21 11:46 PM
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bobcat1
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Finished all my fields today, 1 hour before it started raining. Great timing, 257 acres done. Good deal. I know a tired hombre I bet!
Bobby Barnett
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: bobcat1]
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08/15/21 12:42 AM
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Stompy
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Finished all my fields today, 1 hour before it started raining. Great timing, 257 acres done. Good deal. I know a tired hombre I bet! Dang right, even took a nap after lunch, and I don't take naps. 1.1" of rain and we sure needed it. I'm taking the day off tomorrow.
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: Stompy]
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08/15/21 02:49 PM
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shalor
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Stompy to answer your question, I am in Hamilton County. We used to have lots of dove. Last three or four years has been terrible. Just a few isolated pockets. My place tends to be in one of those pockets but it’s still been really tough. Usually they would just come to my dad‘s wheatfields as he was sewing, but that doesn’t seem to work anymore.
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Re: when to shred sunflower field?
[Re: elvisp_bucks]
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08/17/21 02:08 AM
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Jroutdoors
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Just did about 50% of mine
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