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Doves on horizon

By Keith Sutton
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Monday, August 31, 2009

"Heads up!" The muffled shout came from my right. I turned just in time to see a mourning dove speed down the fencerow, then drop low over the cut milo. Before I could raise my shotgun, Jimmy Peeler dropped the bird with a clean shot. "Nice shot," I called. Then Jimmy's brother Lewis was yelling, pointing behind us. "Birds comin' in." Three doves blazed by like bantam kamikazes. When they were in front of me, I shouldered my shotgun and fired at the lead bird. It faltered as the load of No. 9 ...

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