Well I knew I had the season started off right when I killed the first dove of the year with the first shot. I was hunting in SW OK near the town of Snyder with my buddy Dave. We started off the morning shooting limits in about an hour and a half. Not bad for having not shot in several months.

Dave surprised me when we went to Walmart and bought some steel BB’s. I asked what they were for and he informed me that we had a Sunday morning appointment with some resident greater canadian geese. We were hunting with SMOKINGFOWL outfitters out of Elgin,OK. We left the house at 4:30 and met the owner and guides Cody and Shane. We then headed for the fields and started putting out full body decoys. Next Cody had us take some camo burlap and tie strings up and down the length of the burlap. In those strings we tied handfulls of wheat stubble to make our little guilli blankets. We got set up and under the burlap and it wasnt long and the first birds were in the air. 3 big geese came in low and slow and met the wrath of the steel and hevishot. 2 of those birds were banded, then we had 2 more land in the dekes and took them as well with both of them being banded as well. Next a group of 4 came in and none left with 2 of them also being banded. Can you believe 6 banded birds out of 8 killed. That fill mine and Daves limit and we picked up and went to the dove field by his house in Anadarko and limited out in about 30min, hot and heavy shooting after jumping hundreds of birds out of the group of trees where they we resting after getting full in the plowed field.

We used the evening to catch up on some sleep as we stayed up all friday night and had a short nap and stayed up late sat. night as well. We were in the field by daylight monday morning and had another limit each by 8:30. We then went and got some breakfast and I packed up my stuff for the long drive home.

I stopped by the hunting club to get the card out of my cuddebak and to put up a popup blind so the deer would get used to it. What a great way to start off the season