Hunting Dove in South Texas: Part II

Well, dove season is over in South Texas, until the extended season in December. It was a tough season this year in 2015. You can read up on our first hunt here: Dove Hunt #1

We set our sights on another hunt on September 26, 2015 -- this time, I met up with Shane Hutson and his two dogs, Bullet and Jack. We had my good friend Fred Kirby on camera, and we were set out to make the TV show.

Well, as luck would have it – – again, not many birds, and we really had a difficult time patterning the flight of these animals. We'd find them coming over the tree lines, and we would move toward the tree line, only to then look back and see that they were now flying over the open field in the trees that we were hunkering down under. Well, maybe the berm, the man-made hump between these two tanks would be the ticket. We set up there -- only to see them now flying over the tree line that we had just left. 

In any case, we got some awesome action footage of Bullet and Jack fetching birds out of these tanks. 

The ticket came when we hunted near Crystal City with my good friend Richard Bacon. The birds were not in big numbers, but they came over more consistently than in any of our other hunts. We stayed at it and had a lot of fun making the 2015 Dove Hunting TV episode! Watch for it soon on your local TV network. We're making shows now for the 2016 season. 

Knowledge is power in the Wide Open Outdoors. – – Dave