do any of you guys dove hunt here. was wandering the best tactics. have never dove hunted so this is all new to me.

I can tell you I just drove through there a few hours ago and there wasn't one person dove hunting in any of the fields. The fields don't look too good really, but I may go give it a try here in a few. Just take you a chair/bucket sit in the rows of corn facing the sunflowers and wait for the birds to fly over. I went there a couple times last year and the fields looked much better.

thanks dave. actually here right now. we are only vehicle i seen. shot one so far

I'm out here now too. U in a red vehicle? I've only heard one shot and have yet to see a dove

yes red van. we have seen a few in close enoigh to shoot.

How did you do?

I would think the doves would be pretty well shot up there by now.

ended up getting five. seen very few doves. the sunflower fields are in rough shape. it was my first time and had a blast. just have to find better places

Thanks for the update. Was the cornfield to the east down yet?

only cornfields i seen down were the ones as you go into atterbury on the main road. i drove everywhere but the back side of schoolhouse road.

For consideration. A guy that hunted next to us in a field earlier in the week left about an hour before sunset. He was headed to the Mallard Lake parking lot. He said the birds were coming off the dairy farm in the evenings and going to and across Mallard to water and roost. I don't know the reality of that but clearly this gentleman hunts Atterbury quite a bit from what I gathered from our conversation. Frankly, the other place to hunt in late evenings is Driftwood lakes. On occasion, there are quite a few birds that come to the lakes to water and roost.

we started out in sunflower fields along the river(?) dont know name and then went over the bridge to the other sunflower patches. seen alot of birds at sunset just to high up to shoot.

I couldn't believe the corn that was coming down yesterday. There were 6 different fields either down or coming down on 31 as I was going to and from Columbus yesterday. One was cut just south of the dove fields and I figured it was full of doves. I didn't see a dove for the first 45 minutes I was there. There's a spot just south of Stone Arch lake where they used to roost as well. I haven't looked for them there this year though. I never have hunted the sunflower fields over towards Pisgah Lake. Seems most people hunt the ones there just east of the creek.