January 16, 2009
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Arizona Dove Hunting Starts Friday

The Arizona Game and Fish Department expects this year's dove hunting season one of the best due to great seasonal rains and an abundance of crops.


Dove Hunt in Summerdale Shows Appreciation to Hunter Education Instructors

The highly successful Hunter Education Program in Alabama thrives on volunteers who help teach young and inexperienced hunters safe firearm handling and safety in the field.


Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Late Season Dove Options

Outdoors enthusiasts love their old wives tales and take them as gospel truth: You can't catch bass in the wintertime. Spring is the only time to crappie fish. Dove hunting is a waste of time after opening weekend.


TP&W Study on Shotshell Loads is a Waste of Money

Texas Parks and Wildlife expects to spend $417,297 on a lethality study to determine the effectiveness of different shotshell load types on wild mourning doves.


N.C. Dove Season Set to Begin Monday

Dove season is set to open Monday at noon. Hunters scouting for birds are finding fair numbers in areas that had harvested crops or had been planted and prepared by mowing or plowing seed crops.


Dove Season Close in S.C., Georgia

Dove season will soon open in Georgia and South Carolina. Sept. 6 is the official opening day for Georgia hunters. South Carolina hunters go to the fields a few days earlier - Labor Day to be exact.


California Open Season

on Eurasian Collared Doves

It's hard to imagine anyone happier than Bob Hicks these days now that the Department of Fish and Game and the Fish and Game Commission have come to their senses about Eurasian collared doves.


Get Ready for Dove and Goose Season D.C.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has announced its 2008-2009 early migratory game bird hunting seasons for mourning doves, resident Canada geese, woodcock and a brief September teal shoot.


Options Galore for Start

of Virginia Dove Season

Have you checked out prices on ammunition lately? You might sit down and take a deep breath before you do. Prices are way up over last fall.


Tennessee Outdoorsmen Eager

to Kick Off Dove Hunting Season

Just the other day, Olive Branch resident Stephen Pitt noticed a potential conflict in his upcoming schedule. Tennessee's dove hunting season opens at noon Sept. 1, and Pitt has always been a regular on opening day. But he's also a big Tennessee football fan, and the Volunteers have a big game against UCLA on the same date.


Learning To Leave Well Enough Alone

As a public service, I am here to save the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department a year of work and dove hunters money.


Kentucky Afield Outdoors: Now is the Time to

Prepare for Dove Season

Nothing humbles a hunter like dove season. Your shotgun's barrel grows hot as shell after shell falls to the ground.


Getting Ready for South Carolina Dove Season

That glad and glorious day so beloved by hunters, the opening of dove season, lies just under a month away.


TPWD Encourages Hunters to Buy Early

New hunting and fishing licenses for 2008-09 will be available beginning Friday, Aug. 15, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is encouraging hunters to buy early and avoid the rush heading into the Sept. 1 dove season opener.


Arkansas Commission Sets Dove Dates

Looking at options of the earliest possible start for dove season versus a weekend opening, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission went with the weekend.


Dove Season Will Be Here Before You Know It

Dove season for the year 2008 is on the way in Texas and Larry Leblanc is not ready.


2008-09 Georgia Hunting Regulations

Now Available Online

Major changes for the upcoming season include an October Dove Season shift to one week later with a full day of hunting on opening day.


New Plan Major Move

for Louisiana Dove Hunters

State upland game biologist Mike Olinde announced the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service approved a dove-hunting plan southeastern states had researched and studied for years.


Alabama Dove Season Dates Finalized

Dates for the upcoming dove hunting season have been finalized, with two changes made for the state's two hunting zones.

Jackson, MS—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has approved a more liberal season length and bag limit for dove hunting than what has been allowed in the past, according to the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.



TPWD Proposing Changes to Dove Season

Austin, TX— The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will hold a series of scoping meetings to gather public input on a proposal to move the South Zone second split of dove season deeper into January.


































 





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