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Posting this specifically for you Coach. After today I have decided I'll never have carpet in another boat. A couple of weeks ago, I parked my boat in a storage building at our shop. I left it there for about a week. I didn't know at the time that those big Ring Neck Doves were roosting in it. They dang near ruined my boat! Took me 2 soldi days to get her cleaned up.
NO MORE CARPET FOR ME.
Glad you got it cleaned up! Those ring neck doves are an invasive bird and their is no limit and no closed season on those! But I guess your in the city limits which may have a firearm discharge law! They do eat good though!
I agree with you Fur carpet is good for certain things but a boat isn't one of them at least not for a boat that catches fish. It looks great especially in a new rig sitting on the show room floor but is sure is easier if you have some kind of spray in to come home and spray it out with a hose and it's ready to go again and I know with my previous boat it would take a week or to for it to dry out with carpet but that's my opinion and now a days most boat manufacturers offer a alternative to carpet.
Yeah the shop is in the city limits. It's only about 3/4 mile from the police station. You can imagine with all the feed trailers we have there that birds and RATS are always an issue. I've had a few rat killings and I just call the police chief and tell him I'm about to start shooting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slabprowler
FYI, those ringneck doves eat just as good as their cousins that do have a season on them, plus the breast is about twice as big.
It does look good and it feels good under bare feet and it's cooler, but I guess I'm gonna learn to live without it one of these days when I trade boats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Javelin 180
Man, that sounds rough and hindsight is always 20/20 but a boat cover may be in order. I have a boat with carpet now, the 1st ever, it has it's advantages and disadvantages, I like it though, just a booger to keep clean!
Yes, a cover is coming soon. We have a guy that makes tarps, and other things for us that we use on semi trailers and he is going to make me a towable tarp for my boat.
Not sure about those those ringneck doves doves being unprotected . they.at one time were included in the daily bag limit during dove season.
The absolutely should not be included. The season is for Mourning and White winged Doves. I will find out for certain and update the thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by chuckster
Posted a link but it had other stuff attached to it so here is a clipping out of it!
Eurasian collared doves are classified as an exotic and there is no closed season and no bag limit on them.
Fur your getting smarter. Guess it takes you barners a little longer to catch on. I'd like to get in on a good dove shoot or for that matter a rat killing. You need to come off all that money you got squirreled away and buy you a new boat. Ill help you pick it out
I stand corrected.however I did shoot a pick up load of white wings as a boy in south Texas.
May be too far of a drive for you coach. Look up Cedar Creek Dove Shoots on Facebook. Ray Jennings and me are going to the Oct 20 event. Cedar Creek October Dove ShootQuote:
Originally Posted by footballcoach
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Too far for me to drive. I want some of us to go to Talquin in Feb maybeQuote:
Originally Posted by John Doe
I’ll drve it! If it’s a good ern! And pick u up on the way coach !
Deag him and furflyin out of bed and come on. Lunch come with it I am told. They are smoking buttsQuote:
Originally Posted by footballcoach
Y’all come on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slabprowler
I'll drive to fish, but I ain't driving to shoot doves! I have been on some barn burning shoots but it's been 15 years since I've been to a good one. I've tried fixing places all over our farm and haven't had one turn out half decent in many moons. We don't have doves around here like we use to, but then again we don't have farming around here like we use to. When I was a kid, we lived out in the country. We haven't moved, but now we have 1/2 mile property line that borders the city limits. It may be in the city limits one day, but it will be after I'm dead and gone.
Whar the heck have you been?Quote:
Originally Posted by John Doe
Enterprise living life. Not much to say really. These darn chickens have give me some drama, a few bruises to show for them. That’s a story for camp.
6 or 7 hrs is a long drive to shoot doves Mitch, Maybe we can find a shoot in North Alabama.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slabprowler
Yes sir and that would make for a long day time you got back home! I usually hunt a few hunts in Tennessee and a few in Alabama it’s just hard to find a good one anymore .