Training new lab pup and "bustin" clay pigeons is the only shotgun work I do prior to the onset of the duck hunt. I no longer have the time I did but I get to enjoy the thrill of victory and agony of defeat associated with high school and little league sports. Hopefully, some day the boys will hunt with me when they are grown.

Clay pigeons is about the only thing my benelli will get to shot till doves season in Sept.

Hunt coyotes with a shotgun?

Skeet, Trap & Sporting Clays to remain sharp.

fish,fish,fish,fish,tie flies, trap, target shoot, a little search and rescue and alotta day dreaming

There is no off season for me and the dogs, training dogs when the season ends, then some hunt tests in the spring, summer is for retriever training, fall/winter hunting season

How are those pigeons for eating? Thanks for the idea. I'll see if some of the farmers around here will let me set up near their barns. I KNOW they'd be glad to be rid of pigeons. When my brother and I were kids we once asked a farmer whose creek was posted if we could hunt ducks. Said he generally didn't allow anyone to hunt because he'd had some bad luck but he'd give us a chance if we would help him with pigeon problem. We waited for them to fly into the barn, then one of us stood below the hay loft door while the other one rattled some pellets off the tin roof. Out they'd come and present some fine pass shooting. Wait a few minutes and the stupid buggers would fly back in. We'd switch positions and resume. I think we eventually shot em all but left them for the barn cats to eat. Dad chewed us out for not bringing them home. He and his brothers killed them for the family pot during the Depression. I've heard they're kinda tough.

An aerospace engineering degree at cal poly slo.

I posted about crow hunting. That is what I do most during the off-season. However, I also hunt and trap coyotes, hunt groundhogs, and shoot clay pigeons.

A farmer has grain bins near my house and he asked me if I would go over and shoot the pigeons, because they are making a mess of his grain bins. It is quite fun, but I just started doing it not too long ago and I have not actually decoyed them or anything like that.

I just go over to the grain bins with my 870 and they just start flying all over the place. They also never learn, which makes it easy and fun. There have been times already when I've been over there, and they just fly all over the place and can't figure out what is happening, so I just keep shooting and they drop like flies! I have shot so many pigeons that you actually probably wouldn't believe it. Pretty fun, but I have found crow hunting to be my most enjoyable off-season sport.

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We have a private regulated hunting area on our property. I am going to hunt pheasant and quail in about an hour from now. My Brittany is at my feet waiting.

summer consists of sporting clays and golf for me. also do alot of bass fishing.

Squirrel hunting is my favorite type of hunting. There is something about squirrel hunting that is just so enjoyable that you can't quit. I started with my grandpa when I was 7 and I have been squirrel hunting ever since. It never gets old, either. It's a blast.

I love waking up on a cool fall day and going to my favorite squirrel hunting spot with hot chocolate. It's tradition now for me to go before school whenever I can, and every weekend. It is also tradition for my family and I to go squirrel hunting during my Thanksgiving Break.

Shoot red squirrels and crows, probly gonna reduce some coyote numbers this summer before deer season and I start trapping, seen some pigeons here for the 1st time in my friends barn across the road, shoot them too I guess.