BusterAZ

The youth dove hunt is in the fields next to the caretakers house, which is off limits to adult hunters. This area will have no hunting pressure before the event and a good place to take youth hunters. Especially this year with the drought and lack off available hunting areas due urbanization. Many of the dairies you are referencing do not allow access anymore. Again this is primarily due to houses being too close and homeowners calling the sheriff. There is also one dairy that has closed access because of people littering excessively on the property. Doesn’t matter to me if you take your grandkid to the event or not as I have not affiliation with it. Just sharing info with others that read this public forum and may be interested.

Most of the dairies in the valley are now surrounded by housing developments and shooting is getting very restricted due to the 1/4 mile rule. Areas I’ve hunted just a few years ago have all been swallowed up by warehouses or HOAs. There is a youth hunt opportunity available for the first weekend that you could take your grandkid to. The registration info is here: https://youthoutdoorsunlimited.com/events/cj-biller-memorial-dove-hunt/

Would be better off saying “Silver Lab” puppies 🙃

I have one new, unopened H100V pound of powder. Was going to start rifle cartridge reloading, but decided to just stick with shotgun shells. Here’s a link: https://shop.hodgdon.com/hodgdon/hodgdon-hybrid-100v Prefer to trade pound for pound of powder, but will consider any offer relating to shotgun reloading (e.g wads, primers, hulls, etc).

I’m in the west valley of the Phoenix metro area. PM me if you have primers to trade, por favor.

I’m just looking for shotgun primers and not looking to make out. Will consider any fair trade offer.

Posting to see if anyone is in need of 22lr and has some extra 209 primers lying around! Please PM if you are interested in trading.

A 20 gauge semi gauge gas auto is hard to beat for dove and desert quail. Longer barrels and receivers can be difficult to swing on tight flushing Mearns, but still easily kill a Turkey. For ducks, a 12 bore is a much better option!

The tanks in that area get jumped more than a Nogales Whore 😱

Scouted a couple days last week. Only found old scrapes and lots of coues deer. About 50 deer in two days, but not a single buck! I found a canyon with water on a north slope and was hoping it was going to be a goldmine, but rain must of been too little to late 😩 The deer were loving that canyon though!

It’s a very good sign that the numbers are still this prevalent. Thanks for the report!

Congrats on your limit! How many total birds did you hit and not retrieve? Were they long shots?

This season continues to be great 🕊️

This thread is great 😜

Thanks. I was unaware of a possible emergency declaration. Definitely something to watch out for!