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Outdoor Life

tularetom

(23,664 posts) Tue Sep 1, 2015, 11:58 AM Sep 2015

I've never been skunked before on opening day of dove season [View all]

And I still haven't but damn near was today.

Was out from the crack o dawn until about 8 o'clock and bagged 2 doves. One of them was a Eurasian collard dove which has no season and no limit in CA. I only took four shots.

Our creek has been dry since March 2014 and the birds have pretty much disappeared.

This was also the first year that non lead shot was required.

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I've never been skunked before on opening day of dove season [View all] tularetom Sep 2015 OP

You're a very brave Bwana. Doves are dangerous prey. Hoppy Sep 2015 #1

No snark but DashOneBravo Sep 2015 #2

No, but I don't go out making a sport of wacking them. I do however, have some Hoppy Sep 2015 #3

Thanks Hoppy DashOneBravo Sep 2015 #4

That is a difference I can support.... killing for food vs killing to get one's rocks off. Hoppy Sep 2015 #5

I agree DashOneBravo Sep 2015 #6

I have been and was this year... Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #7