Late season Doves are everything early ones are not. Faster, smarter, heavily feathered and often seen in large groups like teal buzzing decoys. With extreme cold or a good tail wind hunting them is not for the faint of heart.
My favorite way to hunt them is along a hedge row if I can find one they are working. Sometimes you will get them crossing in one or two places which if spaced correctly give you good left and right incomers or going away birds. Sometimes you get lucky and get them flying parallel to the hedge row and you end up with consistent crossing birds all day long. Had this one day with a slight bend in the hedge row so I had perfect concealment at birds which were all about 35 yards out crossing from my left to right with a 25 mpg tail wind. Man did I use up some shells that day to get them. Better use the big boy gun with big boy shells when you are playing that game. Stan's 32" Hammer gun or my Sterlingworth 32" ejector is a fine gun to use for those days.