Lease Reviews
LEASE REVIEWS AND COMMENTS
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> Stony
> Unit #2013 (Public Dove Land Book)
> Denton County
> Hunted: 2nd weekend in September ‘08
> General: This is a good size property with entrances on both sides. Although seeing a dirt road going 70mph on US380 was a little tough. The map doesn’t show this, but there are signs restricting how far you can drive onto the property. So you’re going to have to walk to get a decent spot. Even on the second weekend still 4~5 hunters on a Friday evening
> Hunting: Not too bad for going so late. I dropped a few, missed a couple of more. Slowed down for me after that, but the other hunters were taking some shots.
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> Northwest Greenville
> Unit #2019 (Public Dove Land Book)
> HuntCounty
> Hunted: 1st weekend in September ‘08
> General: This is a big property with pastures on both sides of the street. I hunted the larger of the two because I saw more birds on the power lines coming in. Land was well managed and easy to get around. I hunted over on the east side by one of the ponds (altough by September, couldn’t really call any of them ponds) .
> Hunting: Pretty slow. You could tell this land was hunted pretty hard on opening day (Monday before). Managed to scrape out a few, but this was at the very end of the day
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> West Kingston
> Unit #2024 (Public Dove Land Book)
> Hunt County
> Hunted: 1st weekend in September ‘08
> General: Not sure why they call this public hunting land. It was a very overgrown with nothing really for the dove to eat. Not the best kept property either. Old refridgerators and stuff had been dumped there as well.
> Hunting: Didn’t hunt. Drove around property and decided not to waste my time. Not sure if it was better toward the back
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>Longoria Unit #741 (part of Las Palomas WMA)
>Cameron county near Sebastian
>Hunted: December 2006, September 07, December 07, September 08
>This property is hit or miss. Either the hunting is great or it is terrible. Land is usually taken care of well >for the most part. One of the trips it was overgrown and difficult to hunt. The good thing about the >December hunts is that you can also hunt quail. The land is surrounded farmland on the west and north >sides. So the dove hunting is based on what the farm land is like. The other really big negative is you have >to park far away from the actual hunting. To make it worse, your vehicle is not visible. So make sure you >take plenty of water, ammo, and whatever else because you’ve got quite a haul back to the truck.
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NAME_OF_LEASE: Waller County Complex, Herbert Preserve, #2438
DATE_HUNTED: 9/12/09
NUMBER_OF_DOVE_HARVESTED: 8
FOOD_SOURCES: Corn
ANY_TANKS_OR_PONDS: No
HOW_MANY_ACRES: 700
NUMBER_OF_HUNTERS: 30-40 on the pasture
THE_LAND_WAS: easy to hunt
TOO_MANY_HUNTERS: Yes
COMMENTS: We hunted the Waller public land today. If you go, get on the North end. The shooting was fabulous on that end. It was crowded, though. My sons had a blast and even with the inclement weather, it was a good time. The state should look at making this a quail pasture, I saw more quail than dove today.
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Mimosa Farms #2378, Public Land
Located about 60 miles south of San Antonio in Dilley, TX, Mimosa Farms public land is one of the best public dove leases I’ve been on. The property is about 1450 acres and was well maintained. The land consisted of about 900-950 acres of croton that had been shred into rows about 40 feet wide. The rest of the fields were plowed up and were mostly dirt. There was also 100 acres or so of goat weed that had been cut into rows. The property is surrounded by mesquite trees and brush.
We arrived late morning on the 19th. After seeing ten or fifteen dove fly ,we stopped and hunted for about an hour on the north end of the property. My dad and I shot four pretty quick and then loaded up and drove around to find our afternoon spot and then went in to town to eat and meet my brother.
About 1:30 we drove back in the lease, which was surprising already filling up with hunters. Most of the spots on the north end were already taken, so we headed around to the south end and hunted.
The dove were flying as soon as we unloaded. The pace was steady for a couple of hours and then there was a lull about 3:00 or so. Only about a fifteen minute one though, after that the pace kicked up and all three of us had our limit of 15 by 4:30. Mourning dove and the smaller Mexican dove were all that was on the property, I’m thinking the white-wings haven’t made it there, yet
The dove were seasoned from a lot of pressure and would take evasive maneuvers on the slightest movement. If the property lacks anything thing, it would be cover. Most of the trees were off the property and made for a hot afternoon, but 45 dove in a little over three hours made it tolerable.
There were plenty of hunters but it was by no means overcrowded.
All in all, I give #2378 an A+, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a good public dove hunt.
Incidentally, at the hotel I was talking to some hunters at the hotel that had a private lease in Dilley, they had a miserably slow day in the field. Looks like this in one of those times when it didn’t pay off to spend the big bucks.
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