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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...