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Preparing a dove field - legally
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<blockquote data-quote="rukiddin" data-source="post: 4201433" data-attributes="member: 6860"><p>I prefer wheat or corn. You can get "double duty" out of wheat. Plant it in the fall for deer, then let it sit all summer. Ragweed will come up in it. Bushhog it and the ragweed seeds and wheat will draw them great. Nothing wrong with sunflowers at all but when I lived in NC, we had a big shoot every year. My buddy would leave a few strips of wheat standing when he harvested it then bushhog it to dove hunt over it. Another guy always had a pay hunt about a half mile through the woods. We would have 10x's as many birds as he did. My buddy went to double cropping his fields so the hunts stopped and the other guy started having really nice hunts over sunflowers. </p><p>If you already got corn on the place, a picked cornfield is great also, but I've seen bird numbers increase greatly if you simply bush hog the stalks. Doves like open ground. </p><p></p><p>Millet works really well too. One of the best shoots we are ever had was when the state paved a dirt road that bordered my buddy's field and planted brown top millet along the right of way. The state mowed it and slung seed all over the pavement. The road might've seen 20 cars/day. Doves were thick and we shot several limits. </p><p>Don't overlook watering holes also. Ponds wiTh dirt banks. They gotta have water and grit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rukiddin, post: 4201433, member: 6860"] I prefer wheat or corn. You can get "double duty" out of wheat. Plant it in the fall for deer, then let it sit all summer. Ragweed will come up in it. Bushhog it and the ragweed seeds and wheat will draw them great. Nothing wrong with sunflowers at all but when I lived in NC, we had a big shoot every year. My buddy would leave a few strips of wheat standing when he harvested it then bushhog it to dove hunt over it. Another guy always had a pay hunt about a half mile through the woods. We would have 10x's as many birds as he did. My buddy went to double cropping his fields so the hunts stopped and the other guy started having really nice hunts over sunflowers. If you already got corn on the place, a picked cornfield is great also, but I've seen bird numbers increase greatly if you simply bush hog the stalks. Doves like open ground. Millet works really well too. One of the best shoots we are ever had was when the state paved a dirt road that bordered my buddy's field and planted brown top millet along the right of way. The state mowed it and slung seed all over the pavement. The road might've seen 20 cars/day. Doves were thick and we shot several limits. Don't overlook watering holes also. Ponds wiTh dirt banks. They gotta have water and grit. [/QUOTE]
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