28 days for birds and 34 days till bear season

[slugger]

Thats right! ah ha ! You know it...
Upland bird and turkey starts the first of September.
And BEAR on the 15th.
Anyone with firm plans for there opener?
We normally go out to were we went bass fishing but TWO weekend out there is a little two much for this guys limited budget.400 miles in the Burb, all the fixings runs me around $200. SOOO, this opening day we will spend closer to home and make an one day'er. The sage hens Will get a brake I guess. But we will take it out on the Sharpies. I can get in to them only 40 or 50 miles from home. Bear on the other hand...
I don't think I can get in to where we saw the huge blacky so It will either be The snowies or Swift for us this year. There both a 300 mile round trip hunt too. Man the $$$ just doesn't go as far as it did a year or two ago. In the Snowies we could run in to a herd of turkeys or two.
870 supper express 1 3/8 oz. lead duplex 7X5's for birds and the Matlin CB 300 gr. 45/70 for bear.

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Drew my first ml antelope tag this year starts Sept 20th leave on the 19th. Dove season is only a couple weeks away Sept 1st I believe.

Good luck this year!

[10ga]

Herebouts in VA.
Dove = Sept. 1,
Squirrel = Sept 6,
Railbird/sedge hens = sept 8,
resident Canada goose = sept 1,
fall turkey = oct. 25,
deer ML either sex = nov 1-14,
deer firearms = nov 15 to 1/3/15 and full season either sex in local counties

and new this year is sunday hunting! No deer or bear hunting with dogs on sunday but all private land open to sunday hunting. Being retired I used to have a weekly schedule of 6 Saturdays and 1 sunday a week. Now it's 7 Saturdays a week!

Weapons of choice will be 2 new to me shotguns that I have finally gotten after several years of looking: 12ga 870 Special Field and 20ga Franchi 48. Then I have my tried and true SMLs, 45 cal Encore conversion, 2 Savage 50 cal MLIIs and 2 Rem 45cal 700 upgrades. and of course a safe full of tried and true guns as fallback.

Good luck to all. 10 ga