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Today, some methods may have changed, but where and how to hunt (and associated culture from cameraderie to kitchen table) cannot be separated from these hills.
DOVE FIELDS
BY ALLEN TREADWELL
Experienced wing shooters doing their pre-season scouting get pretty excited when they see fields of sunflowers with dropping brown heads because they know that these fields will present plenty of action during the dove season.
Ragweed, smartweed, foxtail and wild help will also attract these shifty flyers.
Wheat and cornfields that have been harvested for silage leaving waste scattered about will draw doves like kids to an ice cream wagon.
While scouting for the food sources, try to determine flight patterns and roosting areas both early and late.
Remember that doves like to fly along tree lines and usually use open corners of fields to enter or leave the feeding areas.
Use dove decoys to help these high-flying acrobats feel at home.
ALLEN TREADWELL IS A MEMBER OF THE REDHEAD PRO HUNTING TEAM.
AUGUST SCOUTING
BY BRENDA VALENTINE
Hunters that take quality deer year after year aren't lucky.
They're good.
That's because when you're sitting at home in the air conditioning during the heat of August, they're out in the woods scouting and learning the travel, feeding and bedding routines of deer long before the season starts.
It doesn't matter where you live, deer movement patterns will be determined by good, water, cover, terrain and hunting pressure.
Their food source is probably the most critical and if you can find a watering area with heavy cover nearby, that's even better.
Use a topographic map to ind funnels, saddles and edges that they will use to conceal their movements.
Even try to figure out where other hunters might accidentally drive deer your way.
Don't over-scout. End your scouting by the end of August and wait until the season opens before entering the area again.
BRENDA VALENTINE IS CO-HOST OF 100% REAL HUNTING SEEN ON THE VERSUS NETWORK
