OT Dove Hunting
 

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?

Same here in Georgia.

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.

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.

Wish they'd come here to Virginia.

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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.

Always in season and no limit in Texas.

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

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.

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!!!