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Opening-day doves: Part II

By Keith "Catfish" Sutton
Special to ESPN Outdoors.com

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Of the various ways to hunt mourning doves, I think shooting as they come to water offers the fastest action. Last September while hunting a small farm pond, I got a taste of that action. At dusk, doves started pouring in. Some streaked in 90-to-nothing from across the pond. Others blazed in behind us. As I swung on one, several more appeared, flaring as our guns boomed. For 10 minutes the action was non-stop, and then a short lull. I found, to my amazement, I'd gone through more than half a bo ...

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