Preparing a legal dove field?
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Woodduckdawg
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duckkiller
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from what you have said I dont think you are legal
Last edited by duckkiller on Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Hayes,
It doesn't sound as if your field is legal. Cracked corn does not grow, so by disking it in, the germination will not be improved.
You can only plant wheat once. If top sewn more than once and hunted over, it could be considered baited.
Feel free to give me a call tomorrow at 601-432-2199, and I will help any way I can.
Scott B.
It doesn't sound as if your field is legal. Cracked corn does not grow, so by disking it in, the germination will not be improved.
You can only plant wheat once. If top sewn more than once and hunted over, it could be considered baited.
Feel free to give me a call tomorrow at 601-432-2199, and I will help any way I can.
Scott B.
Scott Baker
10 DAY RULE AND DISTANCE
Any baited area is considered to still be baited for 10 days after the complete removal of all grains, salt, or other feed that is not a result of a normal agricultural practice. This rule recognizes that removing the bait does not remove the lure created, and that doves will still be attracted to an area even after the bait is gone. Hunting over, around, or near a baited area at any time during the 10 day period after the removal of all bait is illegal. How close to bait can you hunt without breaking the law? There is no set distance, and court rulings vary depending on the circumstances. The influence of any bait, which can only be determined on a case by case basis, will increase or decrease depending on many factors, including topography, weather, and dove flight patterns. Remember, however, that the law prohibits hunting if bait is present and could lure or attract birds "to, on, or over areas where hunters are attempting to take them." All such bait (salt, grain, or other feed) must be totally removed for a period of 10 days before the area may be legally hunted.
To me that means you can bait but it better be completly gone at least 10 days before otherwise what is the purpose of having the law if you can not put it out to begin with? Maybe I am just off on the way I read that which is possible. Does anyone else see my point?
If you disk and throw wheat out after that time as long it is for the first time to sow wheat and throw it out it would be legal?
Any baited area is considered to still be baited for 10 days after the complete removal of all grains, salt, or other feed that is not a result of a normal agricultural practice. This rule recognizes that removing the bait does not remove the lure created, and that doves will still be attracted to an area even after the bait is gone. Hunting over, around, or near a baited area at any time during the 10 day period after the removal of all bait is illegal. How close to bait can you hunt without breaking the law? There is no set distance, and court rulings vary depending on the circumstances. The influence of any bait, which can only be determined on a case by case basis, will increase or decrease depending on many factors, including topography, weather, and dove flight patterns. Remember, however, that the law prohibits hunting if bait is present and could lure or attract birds "to, on, or over areas where hunters are attempting to take them." All such bait (salt, grain, or other feed) must be totally removed for a period of 10 days before the area may be legally hunted.
To me that means you can bait but it better be completly gone at least 10 days before otherwise what is the purpose of having the law if you can not put it out to begin with? Maybe I am just off on the way I read that which is possible. Does anyone else see my point?
If you disk and throw wheat out after that time as long it is for the first time to sow wheat and throw it out it would be legal?
Too many times I've seen a field get disked and the bait buried, then turned back on top again.
Disking is not removing the bait. You've either got to let the birds eat it all up or scoop it off of the field. The only other option is for it to rot away, and that ain't happening in this desert-like environment we've got goin' on right now. That bait is just gonna sit there until the birds eat it up. It's got to be completely removed 10 days prior to the hunt.
Take this as a lesson learned; don't put out chops.
Disking is not removing the bait. You've either got to let the birds eat it all up or scoop it off of the field. The only other option is for it to rot away, and that ain't happening in this desert-like environment we've got goin' on right now. That bait is just gonna sit there until the birds eat it up. It's got to be completely removed 10 days prior to the hunt.
Take this as a lesson learned; don't put out chops.
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I heard that and I will not again, thank goodness we did not put much out to begin with. I feel pretty certain it will be gone before the 10 day cut off. Thanks for all the help. I normally plant brown top just did not have the time this year and the co ops were short on feed wheat so I got soem chops to feel its place but will not again!! Thanks again to all who chimed in
No. Only salt, feed or grain is considered bait. You could put a gravel patch or water hole in the field and be perfectly legal.
I've seen fields where a water hose ran from the camp to a furrow and it was covered with doves.
I've seen fields where a water hose ran from the camp to a furrow and it was covered with doves.
ISAIAH 40:31
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Greenhead22
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Checked out about 100 acre field this morning. Half of it is corn and half is soybeans. They've cut some test strips in both fields this week. This field has about a 1 acre shallow borrow pit in it. Just wondering if I would be legal if I got permission to pump it up and hunt it.
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