One of the more mature and experienced guys in my dove club thinks the deer feeders have spread the doves out. If a dove gets pressured in a big open field, he probably knows of half a dozen reliable corn piles within a mile.
One of the more mature and experienced guys in my dove club thinks the deer feeders have spread the doves out. If a dove gets pressured in a big open field, he probably knows of half a dozen reliable corn piles within a mile.
What is the smallest field you would try to put a dove field in??? Mainly for maybe 2-3 adults and a couple of kids sitting next to their old man. I’ve got a small field on my place - maybe 5 acres. Too small to mess with? I half ass planted millet a few years back - it pulled a few birds in but nothing to blow your hair back. Just wondering if it was my half assedness or the field is too small???
We always plant a second field just for my brother, father, nephews, and myself. It is right at 5 acres. We plant 3 acres sunflowers and 2 acres millet. This is just an extra field to go along with our bigger 13 acre field since we usually still have seeds left over. We have some great midweek shoots. We plant millet flowers millet flowers millet. Works really good for a small hunt. So smaller fields will work.
I still have my corn feeder running and the doves are pouring into it every day. It sits right at the edge of my dove field. I will probably let it run until I start cutting millet about 2 weeks before the season.
The feeder sits 316 yards from my back porch. Everyday I see doves, fox squirrels, crows, deer, all kinds of wildlife visit it. I can watch them from my den with a spotting scope. My fun lately has been shooting at crows with 17 HMR at 316 yards. I am getting dialed in on them.
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Good idea, there is a tripod feeder out there that has not been used and probably just needs a battery .
I was amazed at the doves swarming over corn piles last deer season, reason we did not shoot it late season was we figured it was baited due to all the corn I had put out
Thanks for the link, actually one of the Arthur's of this is a client of mine, just noticed that
I will shoot him an email
Still little confused on what you can and can not do with millet, hear a bunch of variations
I guess my question is do you have a certain time limit PRIOR to opening day to bush hog and plow fields
Last edited by tprice; 07-27-2018 at 10:06 AM.
No you can manipulate it how you want all through dove season. You just cannot add more.
From what I see in the pictures, if you want those boys to get a shot at some doves you better go to a public field.
Thanks for all the help, ours turned out pretty decent for a first time.
Did not have as many people as expected and really needed a few more but I was afraid to have too many folks there.
Already have some ideas for next year on how to make it better.
We may shoot tomorrow late pm or even Monday but then time to get ready for deer season
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