Getting close

[buckshot1224]

Hit it with burn down yesterday. Will cut 2-3 strips next weekend and probably harvest the corn before opening day. Holding 200 I’d guess right now but I suspect it’ll turn on this week.

Didn’t get an invite to my niece’s wedding cause they decided to have it on the 2nd and I told them I couldn’t make it……..o’well…….that’s what opening day means around here. 40 plus year tradition







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[Mldalton]

Looks great!

[CurLee]

I could sit by my pool and shoot a limit today. You guys puttin in work are gonna dry up my opportunities in the coming weeks...

[Duck cutter]

Looking good,

I also declined an invitation to a wedding last year on the dove opener

[buckshot1224]

I could sit by my pool and shoot a limit today. You guys puttin in work are gonna dry up my opportunities in the coming weeks...

I could do that everyday with all the Eurasians in the cow pastures


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[Duckkiller]

I got married on the 5th in 2009. I celebrated our anniversary with my wife last year for the first time. Rookie mistake in 09’

[darealdeal]

Who gets married on any opening day.

[raybird]

what’s burn down?

[buckshot1224]

Who gets married on any opening day.

My anniversary is tomorrow……..I’ve never really cared to deer hunt in August so that was and easy way to never forget our anniversary lol


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[Palmetto Bug]

I know a guy that postponed his mom's funeral due to opening day of dove season.

I'm confident my wife would have similar consideration for planning my funeral if she expects any of my friends to show up.

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[Palmetto Bug]

what’s burn down?

Usually spraying with a foliage removing herbicide like Gramoxone/Paraquat/Agent Orange or maybe just something like Glyphosate to get the plants dead and drying out.

[buckshot1224]

48 hours after spraying




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[ecu1984]

That's nice !

[raybird]

Usually spraying with a foliage removing herbicide like Gramoxone/Paraquat/Agent Orange or maybe just something like Glyphosate to get the plants dead and drying out.

Sounds healthy for the little
turkeys and growing doves.

[Palmetto Bug]

Sounds healthy for the little
turkeys and growing doves.

Yeah, I have never used the any of the really heinous chemicals. I do a little spot spraying with glypho to kill Morning Glory, Crotalaria and Sesbania but the label on some of the others explicitly warn about animals eating after spraying. For me, it makes more sense to just time the planting so that it's naturally dead and dropping seeds in time for the season.

[2thDoc]

that pigweed makes my eye twitch....

[cusportsman]

that pigweed makes my eye twitch....

Doves like pigweed, city slickers don't like walking in it though


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[2thDoc]

Doves like pigweed

everybody with pigweed says this....

[buckshot1224]

Yeah, I have never used the any of the really heinous chemicals. I do a little spot spraying with glypho to kill Morning Glory, Crotalaria and Sesbania but the label on some of the others explicitly warn about animals eating after spraying. For me, it makes more sense to just time the planting so that it's naturally dead and dropping seeds in time for the season.

While I don’t disagree with you I also look at it like this. Round up ready corn, pesticides and the animals that eat those dead bugs, steroids in everything you buy at the box store………it is almost unavoidable

I typically spray round up 4 weeks prior to season. Decided to go gramoxzone this year because there was an 80% chance of rain the night 6 hours after I sprayed. Plus all the heads were already down so little to no contact with the seed areas.

I did learn about 4-5 years ago that doves will avoid chemicals with high glyphosate if the plants are stagnant with the chemical for several days on end.

Each there own. We’ve had a dove field for about 40 years and it has never really let us down. (There were a few years a while back when I think everyone struggled). Typically average around 2000 birds a year.


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[JOHNSON]

There is absolutely no need for Gramoxone. The only thing it achieves is instant gratification.


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