Took the grandson yesterday to dove hunt, left for Atterbury around 8:30 to get name in for draw. When we got there I drove to look at fields and saw some vehicles already parked next to where sunflowers had always been planted, so off to the office thinking, must not be a draw, but they never let people start shooting til noon? At the office I was told, "sunflowers didn't come up this year and we didn't mow, but you can hunt". I said no thanks..... Upon leaving a couple waterfowl hunters said they were headed to Crosley as dove hunting there is always better and less people than Atterbury and I was welcome to follow them. So off to Crosley only to find decent looking mowed weeds! And NO Sunflowers there either! We hunted until 3pm grandson fired five times (he likes to double tap my over under 20 gauge) and I had one shot. between us we saw less than 10 doves. Just a heads up for dove hunters........

With all the press releases DNR puts out it would be nice to give a heads up when dove fields are non existant. Property managers have known this since spring.

I'm not upset, they like to use the internet to keep us informed, they slipped up on this one IMO.