Generally 8s. I seem to overestimate distances, so most of my shots are within 40 yards, so if I do my part, the birds are dead.
Having said this, my dove season this year constituted 1 dove with two shots, so I would not pay any attention at all to my recommendation.: 
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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