It's getting to the point where you'll only be able to choose one species to hunt on private unless you have unlimited funds.
Dove leases? I would have never thought that until I went out to get a new slip signed from a landowner. He just sold a bunch of seed to a guy down the road from him and he told him he was planting to charge hunters to dove hunt. I hope this doesn't start spreading......The day I have to pay to hunt doves I'll just stay in bed and watch it on TV. All you can do is take care of the owners and hope they don't go down that route. Right after he said that I made sure to tell him about when you lease the landowner is technically responsible and liable if the hunters get hurt (at least that's what I have been told). He didn't like the thought of being sued.
I lease 3 properties to deer hunt and I've had 2 attorneys look at the lease wording, and according to the lease contract the LANDOWNER is NOT RESPONSIBLE for any accidents or injury that occur on his property while I'm hunting, or if my lease partners are hunting.
The Leasing keg was first tapped by a "hunter"....because they had worked up an awful thirst.
I would not be surprised to discover that dove hunters soon refine what constitutes a "dove field" to them and that may not fit what many landowners will be willing to supply.
Some research beyond access might pay dividends.
I would like to take my boy dove hunting. The only halfway decent public land I'm aware of is up by Delaware which is a haul for us since we're in Lancaster. I grew up in Missouri hunting dove and it's always been one of my favorite things to hunt. I haven't been in probably 15 years or more just due to no place to hunt them.
Deer creek can be good and you can find places to spread out there. I've gone out later in the season and had good action just walking around the fields. Kicked up a few roosters there in Sept. which always gets your heart racing. I've done well at Delaware too.
The land owner I hunt pigs at in Texas say's he makes his money from dove hunts ! Now I know this isn't Texas but we are not far behind on the pay to play game !!!
I think we have quite a way to go still for dove. Management of land could be better, and Texas is in the central flyway. one of the heaviest flyways for dove. I have a friend from Mississippi who lived up here for a bit and wouldn't even bother dove hunting. It wasn't until a couple years when I went down and visited him I saw why. By now they're seeing anywhere from 100 to 300 birds flying in a couple hours time. It really is a depressing, but awing site. A LOT of people manage their lands for it down there. We absolutely have birds. But I don't think its near enough to excite a person into managing and leasing their land. I
Yea, ohio will never be Texas. But I think if the state stepped up their game, ohio could be a better experience as far as dove hunting goes. Until then what kind of deals does your buddy in Texas cut on double hunts, say a pig and dove hunt
He won't do it . He does the Dove hunts then they deer hunt and he starts pig hunts when the gun season for deer is over . You may look at Rowe outfitters for that .
Texas has 3 - 4 species of doves.....that alone increases the "dove" population in Texas and it is unlikely to ever find Ohio matching Texas as regards dove hunting.... mourning, white-wing or whatever.
Texas began and refined Leasing from their own land/ land ownership particulars and their often unique notion of hunting.....both totally unlike Ohio and the many other states where deer hunting scabbed on the ill-advised and ill-fitting Texas Leasing Model.
That poor fit was a disaster for all but those seeking profit in a billfold or a buck pole.
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