Shooting Doves Off Of Powerlines...

I have a friend who is linesman for a power company. We got him to come intstall 5 poles in the ground and run a cable right down the center of our dove field. It isn't a hot line. The doves land on it before they land on the ground. We don't always shoot them off of the line, but normally let little kids take turns popping them off.

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Also alot of times power lines mean roadways / highways. never a good idea to be shooting close or over a road

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It was a safe shot in this regard, but I know exactly what you mean.

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We got him to come intstall 5 poles in the ground and run a cable right down the center of our dove field. It isn't a hot line. The doves land on it before they land on the ground. We don't always shoot them off of the line, but normally let little kids take turns popping them off.

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Nice.

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#8 shot won't mess up a steel wire

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Perhaps.

I've got a sweet powerline set. Get regular dove decoys, tie fishing line around its neck, chunk the decoy over the top powerline, pull it up to where it looks like it's sitting on the bottom line, and tie the loose end off on a tree, stick or something. Put 2 of those out, with 2 mojos, 2 cases of shells, and two cases of beer. Not sure what me dove tally is so far this year, but it's in the 300 range.

The only way I don't pop em off the line is if they're too close. Partly because of potential damage to the powerline, but mainly because of not wanting to blow the everlovin shite out of the dove and render him inedible.

if they are close enough to shoot on the line, who the frick lets the land on the line. they should be dead before they got to land

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Also alot of times power lines mean roadways / highways. never a good idea to be shooting close or over a road

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They also run for MILES through fields too.

I shot tons of birds off power lines when I was a kid and never did any damage to the lines that I'm aware of.

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Shooting Doves Off Of Powerlines...
...yes or no.

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We used to do this with our pellet guns when we were kids.

i dove hunted with some friends in South Carolina who were all very good shots. their favorite saying was dont ever shoot one flying if you think he will light on the wire. They used zebco rod and reels to cast their dove decpys over the line