Very well put, Ghostrider. May I add to that the look on your retriever's face as he sits beside you, scanning the sky for doves, and how the expression changes as one approaches, in anticipation of a possible retrieve.
rmb and ed notwithstanding, I have found nothing in shotgunning that tops the thrill and satisfaction of executing a planned double on incoming doves, when you kill the first one with the tight barrel so far out there that you can kill the second with the more open barrel and both hit the ground in front of you. Until you've done that it is hard to explain how far out the first one must be when you hit the rear trigger. Neither have I found, for that matter, many things that I enjoy on the table more than well prepared dove.
