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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

With three hatches confirmed and possibly a fourth set to fledge, Oklahoma's doves did well this summer. That means hunters have a good chance of doing well Tuesday morning for what many see as the ...

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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 ...

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 ...