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.

Sunday marks the opening of dove hunting season in North and Central Texas. As hunters prepare to head to the fields, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Game Wardens are offering tips to ensure the ...

Dove hunting is simple. Sit, watch the sky, and shoot—usually a lot. You don’t need fancy gear to hunt doves. A gun, some shells, and a bucket are enough. But the right gear can keep you cooler, more ...

Shotgun and shells, check and check. Lightweight clothes to keep the sun at bay, check. Sunscreen and water, check and check. That pretty much covers everything you’ll need for North Zone opening day ...

SOMEWHERE, A YOUNGSTER will walk out to the fence corner behind his house at dawn on Wednesday with a single-shot .410 and a pocket full of shells and bring home some dove for dinner. But elsewhere, ...

It's almost here at last: dove season! To many of us who are hunters, the start of dove season is like the sunrise. It is a new day. It is a new beginning. We get to start over. All of the things we ...

Have you ever wondered why in the great scheme of things, the first hunting season, dove season, has the hardest targets to hit? I take that zooming teal isn't that easy to hit also. Dove season is a ...

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 ...

When my home state of Iowa finally got a mourning dove season eight years ago, I felt like playing catch-up to make amends for the previous thirty or forty doveless years. My now-departed waterfowl ...

WEST FARGO – I grew up in an era before the early August goose hunt, and 25 years later, it still feels a bit odd to think of hunters swatting mosquitoes and slathering on sunscreen. Doug Leier is an ...