I was recently visiting a fellow dove hunter and he shared some some game with me that included a few doves. Now I need to gently thaw them out, take the breast meat off of the bone, brine them and stuff them with fresh chopped jalapeños, wrap them in bacon and grill them fast and […]
Every year before Dove Day we try to get together for a little bit of food and shotgun practice during an August weekend. Larry told me that Keith has done some improvements on the area where we shoot skeet and of course he has the gun shooting lane, shown above, where we shoot pistols and […]
I have been shooting Texas doves for over twenty years and most of that time I did not use dove decoys because I was not sure if they worked or not. Then around 2001 I started using a few decoys that looked like a dove sitting on a tree or wire with clips molded into […]
Most of us are getting on in years and a lot of us are like trees where we have put another ring around the trunk for every year of our wonderful lives. No matter how old we are it is important to keep out inner stuff, which is over 50% water, hydrated so we don’t […]
Now that we are less than two months away from the 2014 Dove Day it is time to start thinking about getting your shotgun out and shooting a few practice rounds. I like to shoot skeet because that is where I finally improved my wing shooting but any shotgun sport will help. We know that […]
The Remington 700 and model 7 appear to have a problem with the trigger that could potentially be very dangerous. After years of work bringing this to the attention of Remington a Montana father who lost his son due to a Remington 700 malfunction is pleased that a solution seems eminente. Remington may recall millions […]
One of our new hunters, for this year, was asking me about snakes in Texas and what kind of footgear he should use. Yes, there are snakes in Texas but in the past 22 years of hunting and being outdoors in Texas I have only seen one snake in the field and it was probably […]
Last month son David McElyea took his nephew Ivan and me to the long distance gun range East of Denver Colorado. This was my first experience at a range where we could shoot up to 500 yards and there is a range that opens up from time to time that allows shooting up to 1,000 […]
As of this Friday we have 12 guns lined up for our Dove Day 2014 hunt on September 6 in Brownwood. I is always a pleasure to have this many committed early and by having a 50% deposit with Mike Wyatt at First Shot Outfitters it makes it easier for him to reserve a field […]
Dove Day is just two months away and this is your friendly reminder of things to know and things to do. The following information is not totally inclusive, and you might need some medicine or good luck charms or other nonsense so pay attention and take care of yourself. Once again we will meet for […]
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