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Always happy to see these
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This was a big track I found two years in a row between a water hole and a brush pile. Tracked it twice but never saw the
critter. Had to be a rattler or a blue indigo; that's the only snake that gets that big down here.
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My boot print alongside the track
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hm1996 said:
You guys don't get any whitewing doves up there, do you?
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Over there is what I think you mean. “Up there” sorta implies Yankees and we’re definitely far from it. But, no sir, we don’t get any whitewings, we do have some collared dove that don’t count towards your limit when hunting.
We have 2 hunts a year on this field. The first hunt is a “paid” hunt that’s basically a set number of folks and pretty cheap. We’re just trying to cover the cost of seed and fuel.
The second hunt is the “owners hunt” where we still hunt after escorting all his guest. We’ll have a catered lunch before the shoot and it’s mostly clients and a few politicians with Tall Timbers and DNR biologists thrown in. It’s really a fun hunt because the owner is one of the most down to Earth guys there is, plus the fact he treats us all like family. And I’m getting paid to be there and hunt, lol.
 
Spurchaser said:
Over there is what I think you mean. “Up there” sorta implies Yankees and we’re definitely far from it.
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:ROFLMAO: LOL Old habits die hard. I'm on the extreme southern tip of Texas; everything is "up there" from here and some even consider anyone above the Nueces river as Yankees.....but not me ;);)

Whitewings have slowly migrated north. My son lives in Houston and tells me they now have whitewings; never in the past.
The population has exploded, thanks to the drug cartels making Mexico a "no travel" zone. They used to slaughter whitewings down there prior to the drug lords. Our population has exploded here. Guess that is the silver lining everyone speaks of.
I have a friend who owns a lot of land along the Rio Grande and he puts on several catered hunts every year similar to the owners hunt you described above, but open to the public. A bit pricey, by old standards, but he "throws the house out the window" as they say across the Rio. Big BBQ and lots of grain fields draws quite a crowd. After whitewing season ( two weekends early Sept.) He opens the farm up to "lease" members w/o any frills for the dove season which runs a couple of months, I believe. Not a bird hunter, so not well versed on seasons.
The ring necks are relatively new "down here" ;) and are considered invasive so not regulated here, either.
 
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