Dove hunting is lots of fun

Moon · 10-08-2010, 08:49 PM

In my youth, I used to shoot doves off of a powerline with a Remington 572. One day, I decide to hunt like everybody else, and shoot them with a shotgun. I hadn't seen shit all day, except for a pair that flew directly overhead. I opened fire, hit one, which of course.... landed right smack in the middle of the pond.

Fast-forward 15 years or so: Dove hunting is great !! What other sport allows you to dress-up like a total boob, with hundreds of dollars worth of shit you really don't need, sitting around in a lawn-chair to harvest a few slivers of meat that tastes like damn chicken-liver ??

The story starts with an invitation to hunt with some of ol' Charlie's kin-folks. I make the inexcusable mistake of showing up in a sleeve-less Dallas Stars t-shirt, a pair of jeans, boots, and a camoflauge cap. They didn't make a big deal out of it, but clearly, I had committed a cardinal dove-hunting sin by not showing up in head-to-toe Real-Tree. So we all sit down under the same cedar tree, and proceed to bullShit the afternoon away. Oh, by the way, there's a Mojo Dove (robotic dove decoy with wings that spin) about 30 yards out, surrounded by probably 30-40 stationary decoys. We brought a cooler so full of other shit (400-500 rounds of shotgun shells, more decoys, tools, shotgun chokes, game-bag, etc) that there was no room for our drinks. By the end of a pretty hot day, the seven people hunting that particular field hit a total of four doves. The one I hit had a huge wound across its breast, and had to be discarded.

So that night, we go to the damn Wally-World in Paris (Tx), and I bought a pair of denim Real-Tree pants, and a Real-Tree pocket t-shirt, and matching camoflauge boonie hat (to make it look reeeeeeally stupid looking). As of now, we've got a shit-ton of decoys, two backpacks to carry the decoys in, more shotgun shells than we can carry, another robo-dove, a dove-decoy "tree" (home-made), a cooler that doesn't hold drinks, and ol' Charlie bought himself a new shotgun.

All joking aside, it really is a lot of fun. Any of you guys gone this year ??

10-08-2010, 08:49 PM	#1
Moon IncogNegro Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,825	Dove hunting is lots of fun In my youth, I used to shoot doves off of a powerline with a Remington 572. One day, I decide to hunt like everybody else, and shoot them with a shotgun. I hadn't seen shit all day, except for a pair that flew directly overhead. I opened fire, hit one, which of course.... landed right smack in the middle of the pond. Fast-forward 15 years or so: Dove hunting is great !! What other sport allows you to dress-up like a total boob, with hundreds of dollars worth of shit you really don't need, sitting around in a lawn-chair to harvest a few slivers of meat that tastes like damn chicken-liver ?? The story starts with an invitation to hunt with some of ol' Charlie's kin-folks. I make the inexcusable mistake of showing up in a sleeve-less Dallas Stars t-shirt, a pair of jeans, boots, and a camoflauge cap. They didn't make a big deal out of it, but clearly, I had committed a cardinal dove-hunting sin by not showing up in head-to-toe Real-Tree. So we all sit down under the same cedar tree, and proceed to bullShit the afternoon away. Oh, by the way, there's a Mojo Dove (robotic dove decoy with wings that spin) about 30 yards out, surrounded by probably 30-40 stationary decoys. We brought a cooler so full of other shit (400-500 rounds of shotgun shells, more decoys, tools, shotgun chokes, game-bag, etc) that there was no room for our drinks. By the end of a pretty hot day, the seven people hunting that particular field hit a total of four doves. The one I hit had a huge wound across its breast, and had to be discarded. So that night, we go to the damn Wally-World in Paris (Tx), and I bought a pair of denim Real-Tree pants, and a Real-Tree pocket t-shirt, and matching camoflauge boonie hat (to make it look reeeeeeally stupid looking). As of now, we've got a shit-ton of decoys, two backpacks to carry the decoys in, more shotgun shells than we can carry, another robo-dove, a dove-decoy "tree" (home-made), a cooler that doesn't hold drinks, and ol' Charlie bought himself a new shotgun. All joking aside, it really is a lot of fun. Any of you guys gone this year ?? __________________ "Thou shalt not be a son-of-a-bitch". Magnus392, from Rules of Chuck 00011