Hunters who ignore their shotguns before dove season are about to be humbled. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the average hunter kills one dove per three shots. That means it takes ...

Gov. Terry Branstad has signed an executive order legalizing the use of lead shot in the hunting of doves, rescinding an action by the state Natural Resources Commission.Branstad's action Friday ...

Texas has taken the lead in trying to answer vexing questions with which wildlife managers have wrestled for more than three decades: how prevalent is ingestion of spent lead shot by doves, what ...

The governor has used his authority to veto a state agency rule so dove hunters will be able to use lead ammunition in September when the dove hunting season opens. The governor’s Natural Resources ...

DES MOINES - Hunters will be allowed to use lead shot when Iowa opens its first dove-hunting season since 1918 on Sept. 1. Members of the Legislature's Administrative Rules Review Committee voted 9-1 ...

DES MOINES (AP) - The Iowa chapter of environmental group Sierra Club has filed a lawsuit challenging a legislative committee in the dispute over the use of lead shot for Iowa dove hunting. The club ...

Texas is tops for dove hunting in the U.S. with more birds, more hunters and more kills than any other state. It stands to reason, then, that the more than 300,000 dove hunters in our state have a ...

Harvey’s drenching rainfall notwithstanding, the biggest change for public-fields dove hunters this Saturday is a ban on the use of lead shot. Hunters taking to any of the four leased dove fields and ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) --- Gov. Terry Branstad has signed an executive order legalizing the use of lead shot in the hunting of doves, rescinding an action by the state Natural Resources Commission.