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New to dove fields
#4123225
04/27/24 04:42 PM
04/27/24 04:42 PM
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 15,762 Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Posts: 15,762
Montgomery
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So I’ve got 3 plots on my lease and I was toying with the idea of planting some millet and having a shoot or 2. Cut, disc, and plant now? I’m also gonna put some lime down in May. I got some real acidic dirt and my soil tests said I need a helluva lot of lime and that’s my priority. Or should I just scrap the dove plot idea? What say ALdeer?
Last edited by bamaeyedoc; 04/27/24 04:48 PM.
AKA: “Dr. B” Aldeer #121 8-3-2000 Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA Member of Team 10 Point 2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris 1938-2017 UGA Class of 1960 BS/MS Forestry LTJG, USNR
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Re: New to dove fields
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
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04/27/24 07:59 PM
04/27/24 07:59 PM
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Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 9,719
BPI
14 point
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Re: New to dove fields
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#4123296
04/27/24 08:19 PM
04/27/24 08:19 PM
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Joined: Sep 2016
Posts: 8,112 Alabama
Shaneomac2
14 point
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Alabama
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I agree with bp but that being said we planted everything today. Mainly bc of the mammoth sunflower seeds
Georgia Football..Acts like Bama but has a trophy case like South Carolina.
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Re: New to dove fields
[Re: YellaLineHunter]
#4123559
04/28/24 03:20 PM
04/28/24 03:20 PM
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BPI
14 point
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I like having my seed on the ground or ready 2-3 weeks before season. I use the millet to start the seed game being put on the ground Yep. I usually will bush hog about 3 weeks before the season then go over it with the disc's opening morning. Then plant my deer plots at the end of Sept. - early Oct.
Last edited by BPI; 04/28/24 03:21 PM.
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Re: New to dove fields
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
#4124003
04/29/24 02:03 PM
04/29/24 02:03 PM
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Posts: 3,262 Lawrence Co. AL
jdhunter2011
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Most of whats already been said, It is Early I would wait 3 more weeks but it will work now. I have been forced to spray mine with Gly on wet years. 100% after you cut it, burn it. They will kill it after a burn. Then apply wheat to top sow. Millet likes the fertilizer so it can get expensive. I have went to a cheaper alternative. Wait till August, till it a couple times and just throw the wheat to it. Just plain feed wheat is cheap and it will come up and make a pretty green spot this winter. Doves never eat it all especially after a couple rains. You can add any other seed you would want and lightly disk for a green field. I know there are regs to be legal about covering it before you shoot it. Last year I mixed in some oats with mine. We will cut mine for hay then I will keep it disked up till August.
Its not the will to win but the will to prepare to win!
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Re: New to dove fields
[Re: bamaeyedoc]
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05/05/24 09:34 AM
05/05/24 09:34 AM
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Posts: 3,306 Autaugaville
trailertrash
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Autaugaville
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Unless you have a burning desire to grow something just top sew wheat in the fall and save big $$$ and time. Completely legal on a prepared seed bed. No more than 200# to the acre. I use maybe half that and have plenty of birds.
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Re: New to dove fields
[Re: trailertrash]
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05/05/24 02:50 PM
05/05/24 02:50 PM
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Posts: 763 Alabama
chevydude2015
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Alabama
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Unless you have a burning desire to grow something just top sew wheat in the fall and save big $$$ and time. Completely legal on a prepared seed bed. No more than 200# to the acre. I use maybe half that and have plenty of birds. Brown top millet is pretty cheap. Couple hundred bucks will plant multiple acres and you don’t even have to use fertilizer.
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