I haven't been able to find a place to dove hunt in East Texas for the 5 years that i have lived here. Everybody talks about going to West Texas, but its not really worth it to me to have to drive 8 hours. So does anybody know of a place in East Texas to pay for a day hunt or have any other ideas? Do any of the WMA's or national forest plant fields for dove around East Texas? Or is just that there are not enough dove in East Texas to hunt?

If you get your type II permit the book they send you has some good info. Up around Greenville, Tx is pretty decent.

I got a spot in Honey Grove if your interested

General rule of thumb for NE Texas is...... If you're shooting a lot of birds, you're good at broadcasting milo.

Last year I had about 3500 acres of milo to hunt

NE Texas MMT dove hunt! I'm in.

The guy has 5000 acres he explained to me last year!! If y'all are serious that's where I hunt every year.
It's in Honey Grove Texas about 5 miles outside town

Shoot ya i'm in.

postalpaul,
Thanks for the offer. How much?


Does anyone ever find dove as east Texas lakes starts to recede and expose seeds and dry ground or is that just another bad idea i have that won't amount to anything?

The fella usually gets 50$ a head opening day

Gotta hunt the grain my brother

Im in! Altho I may mistake crews head as a dove...

All in fun

Heck yea, count me in!!

Is it morning & afternoon or just afternoon?

All day!! He also offers season pass for 125$

He's got some ponds I've never asked about duck hunting I don't think he would care when that sseason comes around

I'll be callin him next week or two to check on what he planted, let me know if yall are serious about a MMT dove hunt

That's friggin awesome! Same deal here runs twice that per day, 1/2 of em are afternoon only, & season lease is $300+

I agree w/ camo, $50 is a steal if he has birds. You must be new to hunting? Most folks keep that kinda info tucked away & are stingy w/ it like their last beer on a hot day.

You weren't supposed to tell him that until AFTER we got ol boy's phone number!!!

Naw been dove since I was 10 not stingy or dumb I just can't hunt 5000 acres by myself
There's birds there all depends on rain and enough people to keep em moving
Last year opening morning I was shooting at groups of 15-25 birds at a time

Looks like its official, me and Postalpaul are gonna set up an opening day dove shoot for those that can make it. We'll see if Tony will start us something up in the events forum

ok kinda need a head count about 1-2 weeks out I will call Mr. Shipman in the next week or so.
Alos he has a barn idk power in it, if someone has not already called dibs on it any you outta towners want it??

Do yall need help?

Timbo?? IDK if we plan on cooking at lunch time??? If you wanna come hunt come on. Kinda kickin it around right now

When does dove season open in NE Texas?

I'd like to try to come up with something to do during the day, hopefully we can get that barn. That way we can cook and chill during the afternoon, then go out again Saturday for an afternoon hunt! Still got a lot of details to work out, but bottom line is make sure you show up opening morning!

Eddie, it opens Sept. 1

If y'all get it together I'm up for it.

Hell, I'm in. Somebody needs to bring a grill, some bacon, jalepenos and some cream cheese and cook up them doves right there.

Thread started in the events forum!

I'm definitly in Crews if ya'll can make this happen. Hell i'd be willing to car pool and i'll do the driving if anyone from this area was to go. Be nice to get on some birds, haven't been on them in years

nevermind jsut checked my schedule and i'm working days. IF something changes i'm definitly in

It's just like anything else, hard to guarantee mother nature will provide. But it sounds like the right conditions are there