Well 11 more days, I got my hunting license already, got an annual public land license also so hopefully I can go more places around here. I cleaned my shotgun, have over a case of shells (hopefully will need more later in the season).

My dad is coming up the first weekend in Sept. last time we went hunting together was when I was about 14 so I am getting excited a bit.

In case y'all, not from TX, don't know what I am talking about, its dove season Sept 1.

BTW it would be really cool if the moderators could count down on the title line for my :D because I have not figured out how to do that myself, THANKS!!!

Only a case for opening day? :D

I keep my shells in a 5 gallon bucket, saves time over boxing them up.... LOL..... bucket holds about 700 2 3/4" shells, in case you were wondering.....

Hopefully won't need QUITE that many.... it annoys the dog when I shoot and nothing falls down!

Well I have over a case, but I hope I don't need it,

Lets see
15/day bag limit
30 possesion limit

I think they would look down on having my possession limit on opening day. So really all I need is 15 shells, I think I will just carry those in my pocket, I don't really need a bucket at all :p

Oh I forgot to mention that I put my plug back into my shotgun as well, took it out for quail last season. My dogs don't hunt so I have to try and find them myself :(

9 more days :D

8 more days :D

7 more days :D

The dove must be aware of it, 9'r -

Been seeing a bunch of mourning and white wings in the back yard with Texas plates on them! :p

took off an hour early from work today to go check out some of the public land that is close (1hr away), saw some promising places :D

6 more days :D

TOMORROW!!!!!!! :D

Don't forget to take your ammo! :D

Don't forget to take your ammo! :D

good thing about going with someone else is there is someone more likely to take ammo, well actually now that I think about it, the guy I am going with tomorrow is probably relying on me to take my ammo :) I am getting ready tonite, to take to work tomorrow so we can just leave from there. :D

got my truck loaded up, yes kdub I have ammo :p I have a meeting with wildlife management today at 3:00 I hope it goes well :D
-9r

Good Luck - leave some for seed! :D

I left plenty, I only got one :(, my friend got 2. I now realize why those farmers lease their land to the state. Grass and weeds were about 7 feet tall and full of mosquitos. It took forever to find anything once we shot it. We got peppered by some other hunters. We'll go back, maybe a different place, but we will definitely take some DEET.

Pretty much the same story for me.... but I had my Lab to go pick up my bird!

I think if I took my dog (at least the one that is more likely to go hunting) I would have lost her in the grass, she is still a pup so doesn't always mind me, especially if she has a place to hide and it is a new place for her to explore. She is 1/2 basset 3/8 shih tzu 1/8 cocker, but she looks like a lab with long ears and really really short legs (about 30lbs and about 12" high to the top of her head, but she is long though)

my other dog is a shih tzu, don't really wanna take him out in the field LOL

Well hunting with my dad was fun. We didn't see to many birds during the day (went friday and saturday) maybe only one or two. It wasn't until 6-8 that they were getting active (normal for dove) On friday we each got 4 on saturday he got 4 I only got 3 :(. This wasn't too bad considering the tank has been dried up for the last couple years and the only fields planted were cotton. Not much to bring them in at all.

He brought a double barrel that surprised me, his great-grand father's -my great-great grand father's- LC Smith. He bought an over-and-under about 10 years ago so he wouldn't have to shoot it.

We walked around the farm looking for the doves and decided that the house was the best place for them. This house has been abandoned as long as I can remember but this is where my dad would stay with his grand parents during the summers when he worked on the farm. I thought how neat it would be to have my own place where I can sit on a cinderblock wall surrounding the front yard and hunt. I wouldn't have to drive 2 hours. While sitting around the house, I saw a coyote each day, I thought that was pretty neat because I have never seen any on that land before. The only thing that worries me is what those coyotes are doing to the quail population, I guess I will find out in November.

I sure can make them fly funny, I just wish I can figure out how to shoot them out of the air. Guess I need to go more often (darn). Oh well, I should be going again this week sometime.

Any hunt with your Dad is always a good hunt!

Mine passed away some 25 years ago, but I can still recall almost every minute detail of the times fishing and hunting together.

[QUOTE=kdub]Any hunt with your Dad is always a good hunt![QUOTE]

Indeed

But I haven't gone hunting with him that much, fishing...all the time. Since I came to college this was my first time hunting trip with him. He was surprised that I have gotten more into it because I wasn't really raised that way. We never really had any places to go that were with in a reasonable distance when I was growing up :(