Many California hunters consider the Sept. 1 dove season opener the celebratory – if unofficial – start to California’s hunting seasons. Technically speaking, rabbit season opened July 1 and some ...

COLEMAN — “It doesn’t rain for 60 days and then it pours,” lamented Dusty Greaves, Coleman County rancher and hunting outfitter, 15 hours before last Monday’s dove season opener. Greaves had spent ...

I could ask the other hunters to join me, or yell at them. Instead, I choose a strategic retreat and leave. About 10 A.M. I’m back. There’s no one around—only piles of empties and makeshift blinds to ...

Sometime after the Fourth of July, once all the pasture grass was brown and all the hickory leaves soon would be, my friends and I would begin looking forward to dove season, specifically to the early ...

Opening day of the Central Zone dove season this past year was a washout for a lot of Houston-area hunters. It rained, hard and long, the night before the opener and was threatening much more as we ...

To many of us who are hunters, the start of dove season is like the sunrise. It is a new day. We get to start over; it is a new beginning. All of the things we messed up in the past hunting seasons, ...

Provided none of us fumbles our lucky charms this month, some local bird hunters could experience two and possibly three of the best season openers they've had in years. The Central Zone launch of ...

With dove season opening this past Sunday, Sept. 1, sportsmen have a lot of reasons to start preparing to go afield. “It’s been a good year for doves in Oklahoma,” said Josh Richardson, migratory game ...

After being so rudely awakened from his late-afternoon slumber in the comfort of his quick-rigged blind, complete with "awning," the Old Dove Slayer suggests to his guide that silence is golden. What ...

It's not much of a tradition. Yet. But mourning dove hunting is showing signs of becoming one. As Minnesota's sixth mourning dove hunting season got underway last week, it was clear that doves might ...