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What ways have you had the most luck finding pay shoots?
I know the TWRA has/ had shoots but I have zero interest in doing that.

If you've got a tip but don't want it broadcast worldwide, pm me.
Thanks.
 
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Iglow said:
$$ is fine with me, I love dove shooting and love bacon wrapped japs/philly chz/ dove breast even more!!!
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$300/gun, in my mind, would be outrageous. There was a place down the road from me that, 15 years ago, was charging $50/gun for very little acreage. Ran into some guys that paid that and 1 fellow shot 2 and the other shot 1. The last paid shoot I got in on, $20/gun on a cut silage field that was loaded with birds but that was 20 years ago. I've been on a few TWRA shoots that were plumb dangerous. The last one had the game wardens shutting down the field for a while as the EMT guys wouldn't work on the wounded guy while shooting was going on. That was during Covid when no one was working and everyone wanted to hunt.
 
A couple years ago there was somebody advertising $1000 for the season down towards sweetwater I think it was, no way could I ever spend that kind of $ just to hunt doves. would take a bunch of broke folks in that field to keep the birds flying , have seen low hunter numbers make a ugly hunt, birds set down away from hunters till they are flushed and it starts again, several years ago I seen $20 fields but always worried about baiting and getting a ticket, twra would probably fine everybody hunting no matter if a paid field or not.
 
$20-40 per shoot gun is more like a normal price.
Then again, what's priced normally these days?
 
I had someone last year tell me they paid $100 Said it was a good hunt and they got their limit but them some expensive doves to me lol. When I was a kid I never heard of paying for a shoot. You drove up ask permission and started hunting Those were the good ole days
 
You might check with a local volunteer fire department. There used to be several counties around here that would have a hunt for a fee as a fund raiser. It's been quite a while since I did that though.
 
Kiwanis club down towards Sweetwater use to put on a shoot where they fed you a grilled ribeye and a side and a drink for $40-$50 , couldn't start shooting till 1:00 was the only downside, always enjoyed it even if the birds were sparce.
 
It's worth it without any lunch. People got to ballgames and pay for tics, parking, $13.00 beers , $5.00 hotdogs and it's over in 3 hours. No way they are getting out for less than $100.00.
 
I hear you. That seems to be about the going rate from what I've seen and heard. If it was a good field, with food provided, and the field isn't crowded with people then that seems pretty fair. That said, if it was 125 I'd say no way too expensive lol. The average person doesn't have a place to go, or own the equipment to do their own which is why public fields are a $#!+ show. Not dove hunting isn't a option for me so if I was in either of those boats 100 bucks would be a steal if the field was as mentioned earlier. I wouldn't be doing it every weekend though.

Seems when I was a lot younger it was 50, in some cases 25, but usually 50. There were some higher but 50 was the norm so if it's only doubled in all that time then that's actually surprisingly low considering how hard it is now to find a private spot for ANY sort of hunting.

I hunt public the first 3 or 4 days of season and what I see and hear in the field in those few days makes me so appreciative of my place and a few others that I hunt later in the season.
 
Tweeter said:
I go to TWRA lease fields every year, met some good guys, also some idiots.
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Glad you posted about the TWRA lease fields. I would be interested in joining someone to hunt. I see that Wolf River has some. Have you ever hunted there? I'm thinking of driving there to scout out and see what those fields look like. When I lived in Texas, Labor Day was the special white wing season. I would hunt the public dove fields around the rice fields of the Gulf Coast and down in south Texas near Brownsville. Loved me some bacon wrapped dove breasts.
 
Texan11285 said:
Glad you posted about the TWRA lease fields. I would be interested in joining someone to hunt. I see that Wolf River has some. Have you ever hunted there? I'm thinking of driving there to scout out and see what those fields look like. When I lived in Texas, Labor Day was the special white wing season. I would hunt the public dove fields around the rice fields of the Gulf Coast and down in south Texas near Brownsville. Loved me some bacon wrapped dove breasts.
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I have not, the lease fields have not been released yet so keep looking for them
 
Leased fields are always released a few days before the season starts, sometimes the fields are ready other times they are not, last few years very few birds on the leased fields but 1 farmer and friends were hunting next to his leased field and had all the birds there, very few in the leased , They had bush hogged standing corn at some point and they shot most of the day
 

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