On the first day of dove season last week in Katy and Brookshire, hunters and guides reported seeing birds in bunches. Literally. While doves were plentiful — even white-wing doves, normally ...

Dove hunting is one of the most popular wingshooting sports in the U.S. Each season 1 million hunters spend 3 million days afield to shoot between 15 and 20 million mourning doves, according to U.S.

Hunting seasons get underway in Pennsylvania with start of dove season Sept. 1. The Pennsylvania Game Commission reports there are roughly 350 million doves in the United States and more than 20 ...

Long popular in the South, they recently have spread across the country. No, not mourning doves. They already are super abundant just about everywhere. Estimates are there are some 350 million of them ...

For wingshooters, the dove opener is a kick-off to what we hope will be a fall full of rooster flushes, covey rises, and greenheads dangling over the decoys. It’s also some of the toughest shooting ...

Dove hunting season has opened across much of the Midwest. Opening Day is always popular. Public lands can be crowded early in the season. But as time goes on, the crowds thin out and many dove fields ...

ABILENE — I have been in some good dove fields over the years. I have been in some great ones. The super ones, well, it does not take all the fingers on one hand to count them. However, there may not ...

Although August comprises a full complement of 31 days, it is often a month that seems to fly by. That’s probably because turning the calendar page to September has come to symbolize the close of ...

The Mourning Dove is Indiana’s most popular migratory game bird species. Their population, both nationwide and in Indiana, is stable with no evidence of a serious change in abundance. The United ...

If you’re looking for a new outdoor opportunity to spend time with family or friends hunting, you should consider dove hunting. The Pennsylvania Game Commission has created about 40 fields across the ...

The traditional kickoff for hunting seasons happens Sept. 4 as hunters take to the field in pursuit of doves. Most hunters will simply find a likely looking grain field or other feeding area and have ...