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I have done extensive clay target shooting and dove hunting. Those birds can mess with a very competent shooter when they get all wound up. Best thing to do is get a decoy or three. Set up on an area where they are not pressured, and wait on those low and slow birds coming in to set and feed. Keep hid and draw slow. I have never bow hunted them, but I have had them float in like a butterfly and land within feet of me.
Now if you just want to go frustrate yourself, try to shoot them in a field full of guns. They can reverse direction and be 10' away faster than the string leaves your fingers. You would be better off shooting bats. That I have tried with bow. Fun, but nothing to show for the effort.
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I have killed many doves with my Ruger Red Label longbow, but the thought of doing it with my Bob Lee recurve seems a little futile unless I can catch them napping.
But to the original premise about bird hunting in Indiana, here:
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"If you leave archery for one day, it will leave you for 10 days." --Turkish proverb Posts: 820 | From: Twisp, WA | Registered: Oct 2006
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Only got one but I also cheated ,was sitting in a tree. Im having a hard time getting a crow.
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Iowa's first dove season, i got three off of old telegraph wires of an abandoned rail line while deer hunting, missed a couple that were at about 45 yards out that were passing, by about 15 yards. Got one that was coming straight at me with about a ten yard shot, I think it was planning on landing in the tree branch that was above me. Jumped a few out of a weedy patch in a picked bean field every day for three days straight, missed one shot at them three days in a row, about a foot late every shot.
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quote:Originally posted by Troy Breeding: Tried it one time. I picked a spot in the field that none of the gunners wanted. After about 30 minutes of heavy shooting I heard something behind me and turned to see a conservation officer standing behind me.
His first words were "what the heck are you doing".
I replied "dove hunting"
I thought he was going to fall down laughing.
Didn't even check to see if I had proper lics. Just walked off laughing.
Troy
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quote:Originally posted by Troy Breeding: Tried it one time. I picked a spot in the field that none of the gunners wanted. After about 30 minutes of heavy shooting I heard something behind me and turned to see a conservation officer standing behind me.
His first words were "what the heck are you doing".
I replied "dove hunting"
I thought he was going to fall down laughing.
Didn't even check to see if I had proper lics. Just walked off laughing.
Troy
AWESOME!!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Troy Breeding: Tried it one time. I picked a spot in the field that none of the gunners wanted. After about 30 minutes of heavy shooting I heard something behind me and turned to see a conservation officer standing behind me.
His first words were "what the heck are you doing".
I replied "dove hunting"
I thought he was going to fall down laughing.
Didn't even check to see if I had proper lics. Just walked off laughing.
Troy
that is classic, i guess it does seem a little hopeless...
i laughed out loud, thats a good one. thanks for sharing
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I managed to shoot two this past season. One was sitting on a fence post, and the other I shot as it took off from the ground. It was about 5 or 6 feet in the air when I knocked his feathers off. They were targets of opportunity and I wasn't specifically hunting them.
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I can hit them with my shotgun in flight pretty consistent.Would need a bunch of arrows for my longbow.LOl.Also i better go buy a chicken at the store for backup to eat.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Posts: 817 | From: New Iberia,Louisiana | Registered: Mar 2010
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Nothing but head shots! Ha!!! I swear I've had them buggers look at the arrow over their shoulder and move out the way and laugh! Dove laugh? Coo hoo, hoo, hoo! Coo,hoo,hoo,hoo! Have fun!!!!!!!!!!
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