[roundball]

Well, yesterday was basically a bust...there were not many birds to begin with and the occasional single or double that did fly followed flight paths along treelines, etc, that did not include my location in a cut section of a corn field.

Got up at 5:30 in the morning, met my party, drove 100 miles down to this particular farm, got there at 9:30am to try and get a good spot and had to fight for parking space even though the season didn't open until noon...must have been 150-200 people there yesterday.

After sitting in a bad location for hours with other shooters 40-50 yards around me in all directions, I shot at a total of 5 high flying doves out of plain frustration, streamed a lot of feathers off of one and he glided down into corn 100yards away, didn't touch a hair on the other four.

Anyhow, got down and back without any wrecks or tickets, and it was good just to get the hunting season started...