Dove opener pics..

Scratched a limit this morning, just trying to stay out of the mud.. Haskell.



Tara holding steady and takes off like a rocket..

Awesome, headed out for the PM in a bit.

Went out to public just to say I did. Not much flying, but 1 for 1 shooting. I’ll take it compared to my goose-egg on a paid field last year.
The real hunt comes this weekend.

Looks like you did well!

I knew if you kept putting that milo on the blue tarp the last two weeks would condition them to coming to your field.

Just kidding. Glad you found them.

Got lucky. Two weeks ago there were literally 6 birds. They brought a lot of friends.

Nice work guys! I was home, off work, rooting for ya.

Managed 3. Birds were minimal, not much shooting from others in San Marcos area. Going to try Waco tomorrow evening.

Slow…arse….morning! But a ton of fun regardless

8 man limit Northeast of Austin. Birds were thick.

@Guy
Beautiful dog!
I'm hunting Haskell tomorrow. My friend has land there. He says it was raining heavy in Throckmorton yesterday

Great photos Guy!
Hope to get out there tomorrow afternoon after work, if not than Sunday as Saturday looks like rain all day.

probably the first time in the last 20 yrs i did not hunt but i will next week end and the so tex opener also

great job Guy and guys; I haven't even bought my hunting license yet. Im usually first in line on 8/15.

I’m surprised, I thought you were always first on over priced items!

I’ll take your waterfowl stamp for $20

Slow for my this morning, at least it is not raining.

The birds in uvalde are flying, the white wing are flying in the upper atmosphere. 4 birds each morning shy of a limit though. I also got my first pigeon and saved all the hearts. It’s also great seeing water all over the place out here.

I forgot pictures. This opener was the best I've ever seen. 100s of birds seen in just a couple of hours, until I got hot and thirsty. A good shot gunner could have limits in an hour or two. I got 7 and was pretty happy with that. Pretty darn good for public hunting. This morning was a bust - I never even saw a bird for the first hour, and even that I had to drag up and move to where no one else was.

The best part of the hunt was billy hunt coming over to visit wife and me. We got to drink some beer and watch a backcountry gully washer roll in.

Had to work at it, but got my limit and 2 kicker collard dove…

I'll be in Jim Wells County tomorrow for the early White Wing opener, will see what happens.

easy limits yesterday and this morning. I shot 55 shells for 30 birds and was back at the truck cleaning birds with a cold beer in hand by 8 both mornings. Throckmorton Tx.

What we noticed was the high amount of northern birds already down here. About half my birds were northern birds

Hadn’t even gone this year yet. Two reasons, have only seen 2 dove in the area, and hadn’t got my butt to get a license! hopefully will change that tomorrow!!!

Yeah yeah…no pics didn’t happen…

Kansas or Nebraska license plates?

Need to work on getting more action shots of the dog work. Birds were flying and was limited by 8am.

that is a great video

Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it.

Great Video and good shooting

South Dakota mostly. But Eastern Montana had a few representatives.

Very nice video. Glad you got into them.

Cooking my opener limit now…. low and slow…







My son made me this drink, he invented it, tequila, and peppers he had in there…

Went this morning... only saw birds on the powerlines on the way home.... but they're here.
I did walk through about 45 spider webs.....

Had a blast Thursday morning with a limit. Friday was a little slower where we managed 8 birds hunting till 10am. Today was tuff. Somehow managed to get half dozen. Boy these birds learn fast. My girls batted 100% not losing a single bird. A few of the retrieves were in some thick and hairy stuff that I honestly didn’t think the bird would be located in. But they did, and brought ever bird to hand. Now I must admit, using a pointer for retrieving requires a certain amount of patients as they must point the bird for a good three minutes before fetching and bringing it to hand.

Today was my opener. I took the 10 month old pudelpointer pup. Today was his first hunt so the day was about him. We hunted a 120 acre goat weed field with no other hunters. The little rascal exceeded my expectations today. We had a short window between thunderstorms. Everything was dripping wet and I did not know if the birds would fly. It was slow but I was able to scratch nine birds out of five flights for him before lightning put us back in the truck. The field we hunted is pretty nasty cover. The first flight I just shot one to see how he was going to do. No breaking. Mark was so so but he stuck with it and rooted the first one out. Delivered at heel with a nice soft mouth. Progressed to doubles on the second flight and it went off pretty well. After the second flight he had his eyes up scanning the sky. I have been itching to get him out all summer and today was a good day.

Not a lot of birds, but great memories and crazy sunsets.

Great pics everyone 👍

Glad yall liked the video.

No steak pics? MacGeyver grilled. No silverware needed. LOL

Best steaks ever…

Good looking steaks you have there. May have to go to the store for some this evening.

Some great pics/video in this thread. I love it!

Not Texas but really close. If I keep a low profile nobody can really tell.

Spot the birdies…..

Got the 3 year old out this afternoon between rain showers.

The rain moved out most of our birds but we were able to finally get enough for appetizers.

This was on a High Fenced ranch

I was only able to squeeze in one hunt on Saturday afternoon. Not a ton of birds, but I was able to squeeze in a limit.

Little cool front came in and it was possibly the nicest sit I have had.

Heck of a pic!

Slow and not steady. Struggling to find birds.

I attacked at dawn..........

Fun hunt this evening!

X2. Frame worthy.

Sitting on the porch at camp early Thursday afternoon and watched about 50 or so birds fly into the nearby sunflower patch. We loaded up and went to the field. Buddy shot 1 bird and then the bottom fell out. Retreated back to the front porch and waited it out until it quit raining about 6:30. Went back but the birds had left. Moved further into the pasture to a known flyway and sat there until sundown but nothing. First opener in many, many years that I didn't fire a shot but I'm not complaining. We really needed the rain. Couldn't hunt Friday but Saturday went to a different place a few miles from the first one and it was pretty decent. Didn't get any pics but 4 of us got 48.

White-wings & eurasians, saw zero mourning doves. After last year's bust of seeing zero birds, this year's hunt and feast was good.

I’ve had a rough 10+ years of dove hunting (could count my limits on one hand). Found an opening weekend hunt near Wichita Falls this year and shot 24 mourning, 3 white wing, 12 eurasians, and 4 pigeons (43 birds) in 2 days.

Probably could’ve shot 60+ birds if I had the time to practice before the hunts

We had a good opening day hunt this past Saturday in SE Louisiana - 28 dove - A friends family farm in Folsom. Ready for the teal action Saturday.

finally shot a dove this evening...

No pics didn’t happen..

My dad would make a bet at any time, for any amount, with anyone, that it would rain between opening day and Labor day. 9/10 times he would win.

Finally got the clips from last week put together. I hope you enjoy them.

occasionally misses are more fun than hits, especially when its your buddy that misses, good video

Finally went last weekend. Wife hunts with me and had surgery the Friday before season opened. So we sat out til she felt like going out. Had to make my own “shade” with the truck just to stay cool. Ended up with 7. Kinda slow.