OT Dove Hunting

[paul driscoll]

This is off topic however here in Co. there is now a year round , no bag limit season on Euraisan Collard dove. Have any other states followed suit?

[Asa Kelley]

Same here in Georgia.

[Dave Noreen]

Same with Washington. I just saw some this morning about two miles into Idaho.

FWIW -- there is no such thing as Dove hunting. You hunt for a place to shoot Doves.

[Peter Clark]

Here in southern Colorado's San Luis Valley, where it is colder than a "pick your metaphor", the collared doves are increasing at an alarming rate. Sort of like noxious weeds finding a niche without competition or natural predators. The fact that they do not migrate is probably what is giving them the edge. Their avian predators do migrate.

[Ed Blake]

Wish they'd come here to Virginia.

[james van blaricum]

We have them in Kansas. I have a cabin at Bonanza and have spent lots of time up there. Where do you hunt them in the San Louis Valley? I guess I will have to take my gun up there.

[Mike Shepherd]

Always in season and no limit in Texas.

[Mark Ouellette]

The bleeding heart liberals in Michigan probably won't let us shoot them either!!!

[Bill Bates]

There is no limit or season on Euraisian doves here in Utah. There are plenty of them here but they seem to prefer more settled and built up areas so hunting them might be tough. I've never heard of anyone purposely hunting them. I'm sure a few are added to bags during the regular dove season.

[Kevin McCormack]

Yeah; like feral hogs, they are expanding their range at an alarming pace. Thus the selected States' no-limit regulations for the upcoming season. We saw some this morning while we were seeding our duck pond on the Eastern Shore with Japanese Millet and Russian Buckwheat. (I didn't quite know how to feel after reading the later thread about fires in Mother Russia and starving Chinese, but I guess I'm OK now. The doves were real easy to spot in the air - picture a slightly larger version of the American mourning dove with a neck ruffle of feathers not unlike the extinct Dodo; sort of like a cross between a formal portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh and the neck roll portion of the headress from the habit worn by the Sisters of the Holy Cross. On the way home we discussed how to redo our dove decoys to attract them in numbers. FInally settled on a ring of woven pipe cleaners around the neck, with a couple of buff-colored "Silly Critter" bracelets coming off the back of the ring. Can't wait for Sept. 1!!!

[Fred Preston]

I haven't seen them yet. Any relation to rock doves?

[Richard Flanders]

What a great way to burn absolutely absurd amounts of powder! I'm sure they're great table fare also. No doves up here, unfortunately.

[Peter Clark]

James,
I don't really hunt them. I just shoot them whenever they show up on our place. They hang around the grain elevators at the co-op. I know one guy who has hunted them on a friends place near there. We still have pretty much all mourning doves on our place. I haven't tried to find a place to specifically hunt them.