One of the few hunting sports that just as much about swapping lies and talking about old girl friends or former wives. Great to sit in the shade (rule one is find the shade) and about half way into the latest story someone will shout Dove and the story is forgotten and the guns are firing away. Always a great time to pull that classic gun out of the safe because one can truly baby a shotgun while dove hunting.
In some ways it can be a like sporting clays with live targets that taste good. PS. Those little buggers behind a good breeze can be ready hard to hit.
Cut cornfields/millet fields near a watering hole are just about always nirvana.
PS. Pictures below are my Fox Sterlingworth 16 gauge ejector with 30" tubes. They were taken in 2012. My old Golden Abby is now gone, but Gracie is still around. Abby retrieved Doves for me for ten years. Never lost a bird. Anyway, lost my place to dove hunt last year. Had a blast there for 20 years before it got developed:
