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re: Argentina Dove Hunt
Posted on 3/11/18 at 9:49 pm to brightside878
Posted on 3/11/18 at 9:49 pm to brightside878
We went with Maers and Goldman in January 2017. Similar deal where we bought a trip at a fundraiser. The trip was incredible and I would go back tomorrow (if somebody else was paying for it :) Our shells were $14 per box and one of the days I blew it out and shot over 1k birds to join the "1000 Club." The other days I shot about half that. Try to stay at La Volanta lodge. It is the closest to the fields and the food was excellent. Hunt in the morning, come back to the lodge for lunch and drinks, take a two hour siesta, go back mid afternoon and hammer them again. I have no complaints except that we got rained out one day and our flight was delayed so we missed the first morning but that wasn't their fault. I can't say anything bad about the place. Good luck!
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Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:55 am to WeBeJeepin
For those second guessing trips to Argentina based on this thread DO NOT!!!
Argentina is God's gift to the wing shooter. Do your research and go to some place good. Just like in the states not all outfitters are created equal, some are great some are not. The last place I went was through Daniel Dennies and it was above first class. Full time chef, sous chef and dessert chef. Great accommodations all first class and spectacular hunting.
Shells will be by far your biggest expense. I have seen some good trips come through DU/CCA over the years but research first! Also don't forget about ducks down there nothing like shooting 100 birds before lunch time!
Lastly if all else fails a long time friend of mine operates www.getducks.com, anything through them will be heavily researched and first class. I can't recommend them highly enough and I have no financial interest in the operation.
Argentina is God's gift to the wing shooter. Do your research and go to some place good. Just like in the states not all outfitters are created equal, some are great some are not. The last place I went was through Daniel Dennies and it was above first class. Full time chef, sous chef and dessert chef. Great accommodations all first class and spectacular hunting.
Shells will be by far your biggest expense. I have seen some good trips come through DU/CCA over the years but research first! Also don't forget about ducks down there nothing like shooting 100 birds before lunch time!
Lastly if all else fails a long time friend of mine operates www.getducks.com, anything through them will be heavily researched and first class. I can't recommend them highly enough and I have no financial interest in the operation.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 6:52 am to WeBeJeepin
Can someone explain to me the appeal of shooting a thousand doves in one day? And did you eat all of the thousand doves you shot?
I get that the dove is considered a pest in Argentina -- just curious how anyone considers the above fun/hunting?
I get that the dove is considered a pest in Argentina -- just curious how anyone considers the above fun/hunting?
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 6:54 am
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:13 am to TheOcean
[quote]Can someone explain to me the appeal of shooting a thousand doves in one day? And did you eat all of the thousand doves you shot? [/quote
One evening we had doves as an appetizer. That was the only dove we ate the entire time. You hear stories about them giving doves to locals. 99% not true. This is a pretty rural area and there is no possible way to give even a fraction of the doves shot to locals. They are probably sick of dove meat. Was a one time experience for me. The numbers of doves are incredible. They are in waves as far as you can see when they start flying. Shooters hardly put a dent in the population. You can't imagine it if you haven't seen it in person.
One afternoon I shot at a plowed field that had a creek behind me. The plowed field is where the doves fell. Doves are down all over the place. I have photos of the field with probably 40 to 50 eagles walking around in the field to the downed doves. Some of them are very close but just walking around to doves while I was shooting wide open. The eagles don't eat the whole dove. They turn them belly up and go straight into the arse of the dove for the easy to get to meat. Takes a few seconds and they go to the next dove. You end up with doves everywhere and the arse is torn out of most of them. Very strange.
The doves were collected in sacks and burned or dumped somewhere. Doves in Argentina have the same social standing as mice and rats if someone owned a feed company. They hate them down there. Some places put poison out for doves and kill them by the hundreds of thousands. Think that is no longer legal down there but they still do it. Like I said, a one time deal for me but I also know people that go back over and over.
One evening we had doves as an appetizer. That was the only dove we ate the entire time. You hear stories about them giving doves to locals. 99% not true. This is a pretty rural area and there is no possible way to give even a fraction of the doves shot to locals. They are probably sick of dove meat. Was a one time experience for me. The numbers of doves are incredible. They are in waves as far as you can see when they start flying. Shooters hardly put a dent in the population. You can't imagine it if you haven't seen it in person.
One afternoon I shot at a plowed field that had a creek behind me. The plowed field is where the doves fell. Doves are down all over the place. I have photos of the field with probably 40 to 50 eagles walking around in the field to the downed doves. Some of them are very close but just walking around to doves while I was shooting wide open. The eagles don't eat the whole dove. They turn them belly up and go straight into the arse of the dove for the easy to get to meat. Takes a few seconds and they go to the next dove. You end up with doves everywhere and the arse is torn out of most of them. Very strange.
The doves were collected in sacks and burned or dumped somewhere. Doves in Argentina have the same social standing as mice and rats if someone owned a feed company. They hate them down there. Some places put poison out for doves and kill them by the hundreds of thousands. Think that is no longer legal down there but they still do it. Like I said, a one time deal for me but I also know people that go back over and over.
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 9:18 am
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:20 pm to Tridentds
The doves down here have one hatch per year, whereas the doves in Argentina have 5 hatches per year. The outfitters hammer the doves 5 days per week, 52 weeks a year and the population is INCREASING! We hunted over ag fields mostly and the hunters and bird boys are not allowed to walk into the fields for retrieval because it will damage the crops. We hunted the same fields a couple of times and there were never any doves on the ground the next morning. Plenty of Pumas and other scavengers to eat them. It's true that the locals are so tired of dove meat that they leave most of them. M&G will cook them a few times over the course of the trip and they will cook them more often if you request it. At some point I started to get bored shooting every dove you see, so i would try to pick the birds to shoot where i would try to catch them with my hand or try to make them fall and hit my brother-in-law hunting next to me. Go ahead and start shopping for a good shoulder pad!
Posted on 3/12/18 at 11:03 pm to WeBeJeepin
We hunted with jj Caceria in 2016. Going back in May this year. It was some of the best time I’ve ever spent with my dad. Worth every penny. 
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