Dove shooting here in East central Mississippi is pretty much a thing of the past nowadays. The population in this area has been in a steady decline for 10+ years and just gets worse. I know doves have a high mortality rate, but by allowing what is essentially baiting on any open plot of ground by a quick disking and top-sowing wheat seed has let most anyone that wants to, fix up a spot. You can hardly swing a dead cat and not hit a "dove field" right now. This and allowing morning shooting on opening weekend has hurt the resource badly. I don't look for it to get better. Fwiw, the Feds do not recognize top-sowing wheat in August as a legit farming practice (which it absolutely is not) and will write you up for shooting over it, but the Mississippi Dept. of Wildlife wardens do not, they actually have state managed shoots using that practice. Never understood how that works...
JR
Last edited by John Roberts; 09/02/26 11:28 AM.
