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 ...

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 ...

Hunters vibrate with excitement, looking forward to Sept. 6 when dove hunting kicks off the slate of hunting seasons for 2025-26. Dove season runs Sept. 6 to Oct. 26 and Dec. 8 to Jan. 15. The daily ...

Cooler weather is ideal for hunting, as it increases game movement. Both doves and geese have been flying regularly as their need to feed grows. Hunting pressure or a strong northern cold front can ...

There's certainly no shortage of hunting seasons opening in the weeks ahead: deer season in October, followed by the upland birds opener, waterfowl season also in mid-October and, of course, the ...

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 ...

Even though there have been some cooler mornings recently, school buses are back on the roads, and pumpkin spice coffee has made its return with a questionable seasonal start date. Fall officially ...