 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. It is time to rock and roll game day Opening day dove season. It is right now me and LFD are going dove hunting out in a sunflower seed field We're taking some classic shotguns with us and we're gonna see if we can put some birds down and of course clean them and We're gonna put them in our bellies. So it's the best part about dove hunting So let's go see how the birds are flying in the field today Sun is coming up behind me. It's a little cool this morning. I'm just digging it There's dove weed all over the ground me and dad are doing as he's setting up on one corner in the field I'm setting up on another and there's probably a good Dozen other guys out here, but they're going to the other side and we're on we're on this other one I don't know if that's good or bad No one really knows because we haven't started seeing the birds fly yet illegal shooting hours are 30 minutes Before the sun rises and 30 minutes after to be honest with you couldn't even see 30 minutes before the Sun came up. So We're well beyond shooting light now They're shooting hours, but it's just now getting light enough where you can see getting ready for my elk trip I would love to have some dove meat to take with me and just you know cooks them up on opening day And I'm using the shotgun that my dad gave me last year Which is a It's a really old gun so see how it shoots, but Getting in the position here Hopefully we'll get some doves on the ground shortly ready. I suck so bad. I suck so bad at shooting, but it's just fun Two more just flew over. Actually, I think those are field larks. So there's three different species of doves three main ones That we could encounter there's a Eurasian There's a white winged and then there is a morning dove, which is the most common There's also a white tipped which are only allowed to if you're hunting in Texas and your limit is 15 birds I've got a lot of shells me and dad got two cases So We just need the birds to show up now Come on Come on now start raining nuggets. Let's do it Oh one just passed me One just passed me right there That's a good sign. Oh, there's another one flying over the field there. I get some action over here That was basically just a warning shot Just letting letting them know I'm here. These birds are flying high today Here's one. There's another one coming flying slow and high over my dad. Hopefully he gets it There's another three and they're high Way up there. There's a lot of bird activity coming over these trees Into my zone. They're just high. Oh We might have some customers here. Nope Mockingbirds. It is a beautiful morning. You cannot deny that Okay, first shot of the day believe we got one down here somewhere. It's gonna be hard to see First bird of the day and it looks like we got a morning dove Another one flew right over me man. I smoked him didn't have my GoPro rolling unfortunately taking two shots And they've both been long. This isn't a bad area that I'm in There's a bunch of hunters over here and they're blasting a bunch and they're we're kind of getting the stragglers coming this way. I Need to know where my dad is though. So I know where to shoot. Hey, where are you? You buy the trucks walking too? I got a bird. I know what I lost a bird. I kept going back and forth Yes, sir. Let's go part of the property, right? Yeah. Thanks over there. Yeah Every hundred with you. Hey there. Yeah, I just got it renewed actually. I had it and I lost my wallet and They couldn't re-identify so I had to redo it. What is that? It says hunter ed required on my license Is that because because I was reading it said before 93 or after 93 had to have it No, it's Boater Education. Hunter Ed is September 2nd of 71. Oh, okay Hey there Hi I'm gonna move out. You see where those two are flying or they're coming in the land. Yeah. Yeah, okay I'm where you just shot at I'm gonna move back towards that area My my last shell didn't didn't reload so I don't know what was going on there Totally miss those birds. So I'm gonna move up just a little bit where those birds just flew over because I've seen So that way we can kind of split it up a little bit. Cool. Well, I will I will head over there Good, huh? Okay, yeah, see ya Team strategy. All right, we just got set up again Actually just got checked By the game warden. He was super nice Really good. I asked him a couple questions. So one of the things he asked me for was my hunter's ed Which luckily I just redone So I lost my wallet like six months ago and I lost that hunter's ed card that I'd had since I was a kid He asked for it. He required it. So luckily I just redone it like in the last month I think he said if you're born after 71 you have to have it just make sure And it'll say when you get a license when you get a license in texas That um, it says hunter's ed required. I just did it online. It took me like an hour to do You can do it. Um, I'll actually leave a link down below if you haven't done it Required out of state too like a lot of states if you're going bow hunting or any kind of hunting They'll ask for that in certain states. It's important to have it's good to just know as well But so far we got one morning dove and uh, that's it Actually the game warden pointed out two doves that were flying over me at the site like right as he was walking up We both squatted down. He was like But it's kind of weird, you know, we're gonna be blasting shots It's like, hey, here's my license bam My dad is over here about a hundred yards away and I've seen quite a bit of activity Um in this area. So I'm just gonna kind of keep a low profile and try to pick up some of these There's one right there actually. Okay, here comes four of them They're gonna come right over the spot Dang they turn I cannot believe that coming back They are looking for a spot to land. They like this spot. They want to land here I don't know if they can see me or what but they want to land here. Oh gosh, here's one right here Gonna come right over me. Here we go. That's terrible. That's terrible shooting right there. Oh my god That's terrible. I'm supporting the uh the sales of The upshot out here in the field my gosh that big group still circling my dad's probably texting me saying I suck Yeah, ha ha ha. That's what he said Just gonna text my dad back Say, uh, how many do you have at least I got one Dad just turned 60. No, no, I'm sure you can see out here right now There's a little father son competition, you know what I'm saying It's like old bull versus the young bull. Oh, there's another one Dang, I might need to move a little bit farther out. There's some that just keep flying just beyond my Shooting range. I don't even know what my shooting range is Pretty much point blank, but there are ways out there big group Real big group circling It's probably a dozen of them ready to just unleash Unleash the fury Me and my dad both bested Long shot right here. Yeah Can't do that one. I can do this one now Got him Okay, I need to eye that bird down boy. That's gonna be a toughie Right in the middle of the sunflowers really hard to take your eyes off You'll just lose where the bird goes down. Is this where you need a good dog? Where are you at bird? Oh, here's a big group Oh I think they saw me Man, I'm doing terrible on my gopro today. These birds are popping up. I'm cracking them. There's one deep in here. I just Just shot him down like I know a thousand percent He's in her areas Oh my gosh This is gonna be hard y'all Okay, that's bird number three Actually four for me. I have two that I'm trying to find right now. Oh my gosh I need a bird dog real bad. Okay, my camera equipment's right there Don't forget that Wounded him busted his tail feathers. Look the tail feathers are literally falling down on the sky Right here. God, this is not the time to be looking for a bird. These birds are coming back I'm gonna get another shot at them. They're turned away. Gosh dang I got a bird down here somewhere like down down and I've got another one that Could be on the ground running and I just shot another one in the tail Oh man, come on You're gonna fly right over the spot. I was just at one of them my shot came off the ground like a quail I was walking back out that way and then they popped up And it went right in the middle of one of these high flyer breaking off Way high Oh, you got him dad. Watch that bird down Hell of a shot man. He was a b2 bomber up there. You got lucky. I see him Or maybe that's a rock See a white breasted thing Oh the old high flyer dad got a white wing. Nice job. There you go You did how many shotgun lengths did you lead him? Uh, it's about a foot a foot You didn't lead him a whole shotgun length from that distance No, I bought that much. That's it. Yeah. Wow. Okay. There's my camera gear. This is a good area Why don't you Yeah, stick put here. I think I've got three in my pouch. We got four birds down ironically. I found the bird that I wounded and it went down He was like still alive running around in the sunflower seeds once they go down if they're alive They can hide for days, but the one that I just nailed and folded up He's in one of these thickets Behind me 50 yards or so. I watched him down And I've walked by there probably eight times now And I can't find them birds are they're kind of just flying every 10 minutes or so. We'll see a small group and Gotta make every shot count as dad just did, you know, I've missed half of them probably more than half The shots that I've taken but I got a few I got enough for a little meal Not bad coming back Coming back behind you. Okay one more down I've got another one here somewhere. Is that pup ready to find one or what? God butt slapped him. Oh, here we go. Get ready dad behind you Nice get him Tex Hang on to him There you go. There you go. There you go. Good boy. Good boy Nice Good boy. Good boy Tex A future bird dog in training here Ryan's dog the action has tapered down Just little ones these twosies flying every like 30 minutes or so and it is hot I think we're gonna take it to the house y'all pretty sure dad beat me on the amount of birds There's still one out there that I couldn't find. I've looked and looked and looked I can't find it and my buddy Ryan that owns this place He came out here helped us find a couple with his new dog Tex, which really helped out a lot But I want to say we have 10 or so which is perfect for an afternoon meal if you never cleaned a dove we're about to go show you how to And man, let me just say Doing this with my dad. I know this is one of his favorite things to do like we go fishing a lot But something about bird season, you know, my dad collects old shotguns. He grew up on a farm Grew up doing it. So special times right here special day in the memory banks. Wow. Just had a huge group fly over me Uh while I was talking about my dad Thanks dad, I love you though. Let's go clean some birds. I think we got 10 or 11 Got five birds in my vest. So I guess we got 10 back at the crib getting ready to clean them up Don't we we lost a couple birds literally lost them And I think we ended up with nine nine or 10 towards the end there my uh I went through a box of shells which is 25 and then when I switched over to new shells my Shotgun quit cycling. I need to make some adjustments here on the on the spring. It has to do with the pressure This is literally the first time I've used this shotgun Uh, I kind of did a review on it last uh, it was like last winter It was when I got it and this is my first time actually taking it out and using it This is a rimmington model 11 and I believe It reaches back to 1948 It was a 48 or 49. It's based off the browning model, uh A5 I believe cool thing about it is the barrel Retracts all the way into the the chamber right here When you shoot and that's how how it cycles they call this the power power pack Uh muzzle brake and then there's a choke in here, which is a medium choke shooting birds with anti shotguns Really fun, you know, it's like stepping back into the past My dad had one extremely similar. I think it was a few years newer. So here's what we're going to do We're going to clean these birds and then me and Steph are actually going to do a cookoff against each other That is going to be on the family channel, which is linked down below. She's at the store right now getting some ingredients And uh, we're going to clean these doves up haven't cleaned a dove in a while But it's pretty simple if you've never done it basically just pull these feathers off of the breast here And then there's a little crease you can feel it with your thumb you stick your thumb through that and then pull up and that Reveals the breast of the bird and then you just snap the wings off And you're pretty much good to go. What is that saying where it's like a bird in the hand Is worth two in the bush. What does that even mean? But I feel like that happened today Birds were lost in the bush, but I've got a bird in my hand I don't know. Let me know in the comments. I'm not I'm still not really sure on that guy pluck that off there. You see that Nice little breast. So I'm just gonna take my thumb Push down in there break that skin That very very skinny skin Thin skin and then you pull up. It's actually really easy to pull all that skin off too Pull up. You've got the uh, all the entrails and everything Can actually see What that bird has been eating So that's what this bird has been eating looks like, uh, sorghum seeds There's a little bit of those small sunflower seeds So they were just feasting up nice organic meat. Wow. These sorghum seeds are falling out everywhere Ready for the feast. Wow This thing was full of uh Like some flowers and sorghum a bunch of it right there. It was like a fresh feeder Just eight Jeez, that guy was just full of seeds So to complete the uh, the pull method, I guess you could say You just put your finger in that pocket right there And you pull the two halves apart if you want to make your life really easy You can just take your take a like a pair of scissors kitchen snips Snip those bones right there This is a white wing dove right here A little bit bigger a little bit slower moving, you know, for old dad Now dad beat me today you had five you had five That you found So you probably had like six or seven. I think you had two that you didn't find I had five birds. So We came close to getting a one man limit between the two of us again y'all Stick your thumb in there just get on in there rip upward And then take your index finger go through the the top there top of the breast Pull up then you can just pull the pull the head and all those little seeds you're going to come out And then you're basically just left with a little angel flying with delicious Delicious delicious meat right there. I love to wrap them in bacon Bacon jalapeno cream cheese. Oh my gosh. Cool slide. Then we can just take our take our little knife right here And get this bone Right there just kind of feel that It's already broke sometimes you can just pull them like break them the morning doves are easier You've just got the skin and that's what holds all the feathers And if you're really careful With your hands you can sometimes peel them off feather free. There's your finished Tough breast peels right apart when you cook it delicious protein They're just good. They're great. The only good thing about Not shooting a limit is You really don't have to clean that many birds another tip just to make your life easier if you keep a bucket of water Close by you dunk it down and the feathers come off They float to the top and then you come out with a clean breast Opening morning is complete y'all not gonna have this afternoon. I'm going to basically Pack up the truck and head out elk hunting I was hoping to get enough to actually take some up there with me But I think we're just going to eat them all this afternoon me and sefer going to be doing a cookoff Her recipe versus mine who's going to be better We'll see that's going to be on the lake life family channel linked down below the old uh the old Model 11. I need to spruce it up a little bit definitely needs to be tuned for those particular shells But it did really good y'all I just get a lot of enjoyment out of Hunting with these old guns, especially with my dad. He got this for me as as a gift So it's just really something cool to do as a father and son and we really enjoy it So if you guys want to stay tuned, of course you do for all the elk action that's going to be happening I should just say just mountainous outdoor action tons of activities Coming down the pipe up in colorado. So I'm literally leaving for that So subscribe right here so you don't miss any of the outdoor action and I love you guys I'll see you right back here on the next one. Also smash the like button forward to his father son activities I know a lot of you guys comment about that. You like seeing it, but just go ahead and let me know with that big thumbs up And I'll see you