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 ...

One thing I love about dove season is that it's a time for me to use shotguns that I don't otherwise use. For duck hunting, I use a Browning Cynergy Waterfowl model or a Remington V3. Neither strike ...

Ragged flights of mourning doves crisscrossed the far end of the grain field. That's for me, I thought, grabbing the old hammer gun and walking along the edge of the furrows. I hiked about 200 yards ...

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 ...

For many outdoorsmen, dove hunting is the fist pitch of the fall gunning season, the tip-off, the green flag, the kickoff, the cork popping from a champagne bottle. The day seldom is storybook — too ...

CARBON — It was a quick trip west with two goals. The first was to give my 10-month-old cocker spaniel puppy, Inky, her first shake down in a dove field. The second was to check out a new shotgun, a ...

This story was originally published in the December 1971 issue of Outdoor Life. “The trouble with me,” moaned Mike Jacobs, “is that I shoot where they ain’t. I zig when they zag.” Mike had uncorked ...

Undoubtedly this is my favorite time of the year. Since I was a kid I looked forward to Sept. 1 and the opening of dove season. I know there are a lot more hunters who mark their calendar for the ...

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is seeking fields to lease for the upcoming 2025 dove season. Landowners can earn up to $4,000 for providing a dove field for public hunting. These fields must ...