DieselDave
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This is a photo taken last week of a friend of mine, (far left) and his fellow hunters on their dove-hunting trip to Venezuela. The stack of dove is from one afternoons hunt. It is nearly 5,000 birds.
They hunted near a roost that's 3 miles by 1 1/2 miles and holds an estimated 25-30 million birds.
During the 4 days of hunting the minimum rounds fired by one hunter (my buddy) was 4,800 rounds. You take 2 or 3 guns each and change them out often because of heat and jamming. You have your own bird boy who brings you ammo and drink as well as picks up and cleans your birds.
You are not allowed to bring anything back so the days kill goes to local schools and orphanages.
This same area has been hunted this way since 1975. Every year at the end of the season the landowners go in and poison some of the birds to help knock down the population. This helps keep the numbers down to the measly 25-30 million in this one small area. The birds are a curse to the area. They decimate the crops and some view them as a plague. It's a dove hunters dream come true: Shoot till you can't shoot anymore while at the same time you're helping crop production and keeping birds from being poisoned. I'm in!
Growing up dove hunting 2-3 weekends a month I am in awe. We would go out and shoot our 12-15 birds and call it a day. The bad thing about a trip like this is you are ruined for domestic dove hunting. OK, ruin me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Dead birds pic loading.
This is a photo taken last week of a friend of mine, (far left) and his fellow hunters on their dove-hunting trip to Venezuela. The stack of dove is from one afternoons hunt. It is nearly 5,000 birds.
They hunted near a roost that's 3 miles by 1 1/2 miles and holds an estimated 25-30 million birds.
During the 4 days of hunting the minimum rounds fired by one hunter (my buddy) was 4,800 rounds. You take 2 or 3 guns each and change them out often because of heat and jamming. You have your own bird boy who brings you ammo and drink as well as picks up and cleans your birds.
You are not allowed to bring anything back so the days kill goes to local schools and orphanages.
This same area has been hunted this way since 1975. Every year at the end of the season the landowners go in and poison some of the birds to help knock down the population. This helps keep the numbers down to the measly 25-30 million in this one small area. The birds are a curse to the area. They decimate the crops and some view them as a plague. It's a dove hunters dream come true: Shoot till you can't shoot anymore while at the same time you're helping crop production and keeping birds from being poisoned. I'm in!
Growing up dove hunting 2-3 weekends a month I am in awe. We would go out and shoot our 12-15 birds and call it a day. The bad thing about a trip like this is you are ruined for domestic dove hunting. OK, ruin me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif