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Outdoor Life

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts) Wed Oct 26, 2016, 05:57 PM Oct 2016

Dove still persistently flying into degraded sunflower patch... [View all]

Even on an overcast, windy, rather cool day, dove were still flying into an oat field with a "perennial" patch of sunflowers. Durable, late afternoon field! Got six with 12 shells, fired from an IC choked Rem 870, all on the fly. Funny, how your shooting improves over the season!

In a peculiar twist, general gun deer season opens on November 5, while the first half of the long dove season overlaps to Nov 6. I have not seen that before, so I may try for a deer, and if everyone else gets one on the fifth, go for a few more dove on the sixth. What a treasure to hunt both species on well-kept land.

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Dove still persistently flying into degraded sunflower patch... [View all] Eleanors38 Oct 2016 OP

Why an IC choke tube instead of a modified? NickB79 Nov 2016 #1

Of course, this is a general recommendation, but ICs throw out a much more uniform... Eleanors38 Nov 2016 #2