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.

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 ...

DES MOINES — A legislative panel voted Wednesday to bring the issue of dove-hunting before lawmakers again during the 2012 session. The Legislature’s Administrative Rules Review Committee, which last ...

DES MOINES — The issue of whether to allow or ban the use of lead shot during Iowa’s dove-hunting season returned to the political firing line at the Statehouse on Thursday. Separate House and Senate ...

Part of the fun of dove hunting is that you can shoot any gun you like. You can take more than one to the field, if you want to. If you want to shoot grandad’s gun, or the single-shot .410 you started ...

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, ...

Want to increase your dove hunting success this fall? If you're like me there has been a time or two when I've gone home with less than a limit of doves; not because the dove population was down or ...

Don't let the hum of the air conditioner make you forget that hunting seasons are quickly approaching. On Sept. 1, dedicated waterfowl hunters will enjoy the early Canada goose season, which ends Oct.

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 ...

DES MOINES — The state Natural Resources Commission ban on lead shot was torpedoed by the Iowa House Thursday when it voted to nullify the rule, 73-27. The proposed change was sought by the ...