To all the Dove experts

Opening weekend was hit and miss, sounds like mostly miss. Is the season over or will this cold front tomorrow bring some fresh faces to shoot at??

Kinda weird so far.

We hunted between Stamford and Haskell and had easy limits both days, I had a limit Sunday before they started flying good. I guess it just depends on where you were.

I was in Aspermont and it sucked.

Olney wasn't very good after Friday morning. Hopefully some northern birds will come down soon.

I'm between Haskell and Stamford and it's the slowest it's been in 3 yrs. It's never been like this. We 're getting birds but not like normal by any means.

Yup hunted Near possum kingdom opening day- was decent not great. Seems like spots closer to cities this year have been Key. Hunted last night and today in Collin County 35 miles from home and smoked them pretty good. Mainly whitewing and Eurasians. About 15% morning Dove- obviously City birds.

Saw plenty of birds around us. Just either 60 yards up or to far away.

I hunting on opening morning in Sabinal. It was very slow. There were no white wings which is hard to believe.

baited field???

Just kidding, you just had all the birds loving your mojo's

We were just east of Haskell by a mile or two. Had a decent morning opener. Nowhere near normal for the area. We heard a group shooting non-stop for a couple of hours. I guess we just missed'em. No whitewings for three days which was strange.

I hunted just west of Stamford on opening morning. The morning hunt was better than expected. 3 or 4 guys with limits. That afternoon was pretty slow.

hunted near coleman - very spotty

Southern Brown County - very few birds flying. We didn't even bother going out Saturday evening. Only heard a couple of shots all that evening.

Some of my best dove hunts are in October. That's when the big charcoal colored birds show up from points north.
Most of the time it's just me and the dog.

Hunted just south of OH Ivie Reservoir (45mi east of San Angelo) and it was pretty decent. Close to limits for all hunters.

Hunted Hamilton County and the birds were sparse. Just a handful shot, saw mostly one's and two's no good sized groups.

Agree it was definitely down from last couple of years

Hunted west of Crane in west Texas and most times the sand country is great, not this year yet! Killed limit Friday evening then sit it out till Sunday and eneded up with 8. Lots of traffic from hunters but not many shots heard. Have heard reports form others in area where groups of 3-4 have to combine their birds to get a limit. We have had plenty of rain and land is good shape and think lots more water standing than normal so hunting tank is blah. Most birds are shot heading back into town for evening roost.

Hunted near Coleman and smoked em Friday. 23 guys, 23 limits. Drove a bit Saturday. Still had great hints, although took longer to get limit.

My experience has been the next couple weeks can be tough as fields and places get hammered. Then it gets better as pressure backs off.

You weren't far from us and it was slower than average for us. Few hunted in the mornings, all evenings and there were some limits but seemed we were just hitting the locals. Couldn't hunt the same spot twice or it was really slow.

It will pick up for us as the season goes on. We rarely have an issue killing dove

I hope the front moves the birds in.
But I was missing my hunting buddy that brings enough mojos that it looks like snow goose spread. That guy does everything 100%

Me too, same area, easy morning limits first 3 days. Less birds than last year tho.

I shot them flying into the field (dry sunflowers is key) in the morning off the roost, catch them coming over the trees, or I crossed the fence past tree line and shot them before they get to the field, patterning them were they like to fly. Interesting not many birds first 30 minutes of legal, then it was on, slowed down around 8:30 coming into the field, then around 9:30 you could catch them going back to roost but I had my limit by then.

I much prefer a dove hunt with decent amount of birds, vs location covered in birds like Argentina, really does not interest me. I like hunting dove where it takes some skill to shoot a limit, and where scouting and patterning the birds is key and pays off. Otherwise it is not really hunting, it is just shooting.

The guys shooting dove (limits or half limits) on public are the real dove hunters.

Haskell area Has been GREAT overall if you have sunflowers!
Had a field of 83 shoot out tonight before 6:30.
Had a couple of hunts AM hunts after the rain that only produced half limits but I'll tell you the afternoon made up for it. Starting to have a few hit the milo. Not sure how the hunt at the ranch did tonight haven't heard yet.

After the 1st 3 days i would say 600+ hunters shot limits.

600 hunters!!!

Its in the low 30's in Nebraska and South Dakota and its windy might see a good push. Typically see a good push of birds in Oct with these week fronts.

"Interesting not many birds first 30 minutes of legal, then it was on,"

Thats the way its been the last 3 years in Throckmortan. A new hunter could get worried he's been had again those first 30 minutes....but patience my boy...just be patient and they will come!

This am was slow. Front pushed birds around. Hopefully they Will group back up following
the front

I was out looking this morning and didn't see much moving. Hopefully a few push in before the weekend. Had birds yesterday morning but seems some pushed out with this front.

Hunted west of Haskell near Old Glory. Plenty of birds 5 of us got limits Friday and Saturday. No sunflowers just dirt and grass.
Most birds were in and out of the trees. Mojo's worked great! Shot several trying to land in them.

It was a miss for me in Leonard. Again, we didn't have the right crops either. Nothing beats wheat and Sunflower, then Milo...

This is a FYI. I ranch just west of Corsicana and see the fields most every day. We had a bunch of larger mourning dove come in this afternoon. By far the most of the season. These are the type of birds we normally see in October. Almost all were flying North into the wind. I did not hear one shot this evening.

South Young county sucked bad because young birds are still in the nest will get a lot better in a few weeks..........

I am hoping for more northerns to come in this week and stick around a bit as temps get back closer to normal (Palo Pinto County) Otherwise has been fairly slow. Of the of the 40 or so hunters in our field, only about half showed up opening day due to the gas "crisis" in DFW. I have been out 5 times over the last week and was solo or one or two other guys that showed up. Our field is part of a larger 250 acre field so the birds just fly in nowhere close.

We got limits again over the weekend. Doves are abundant but they seem jitterish (is that a word lol) . We killed a few large body birds that seemed like northerns.

I saw only a few birds south of DFW this weekend, all out of range though. Unfortunately it only looks like it's getting warmer this week.

Headed to Aspermont this weekend, hope it doesn't suck to bad.

Dove hunting just south of Graford has been very slow for us. Has anyone in that area had any large numbers or even far numbers of birds flying?

Any input on the outlook for that area would be appreciated as well?

I had decreasing quality hunts in Matagorda County. Mostly Eurasian. Skeeters were fierce.
16 Saturday, 14 Sunday then the next Saturday 4.