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.

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 ...

In last week’s column, I offered some tips on how to find a good dove field to hunt. This week, I’d like to talk about how to improve your odds for killing those small, fast-flying mourning doves we ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When scouting for mourning doves, most Arkansas hunters head straight for farm country, where harvested fields of sunflowers, millet, wheat or other seed crops attract hungry birds. “Most dove hunters ...

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 ...

The dove season begins Monday. Since that's a holiday, you can expect a lot more hunters in the field than you have seen the past couple of years. While that will make some areas crowded, the ...