Old guy who was reared in the Mississippi Delta morning dove capital of America. Best advice don't stop swinging when you pull the trigger follow through.

Good tips for everyone Thomas. Nationally more shells are shot on an average dove season than All of the other game birds combine. Another stat that sure supports the above statistic is :the Average dove hunter kills 4 to 5 doves per box of 25 shells!

I prefer using two hands clamped together-blowing air between my two thumbs into the chamber my hands formed. I’ve found it sounds closest to dove vs whistling. And yes-I believe calling really does work

Good video. My choice of choke is skeet, and no tighter than light mod. Again, great video!

With a tighter constriction you get a longer shot string. It’s not as much about the pattern as it is your lead and the pellets getting there more at a time instead of a couple at a time. With a tighter construction you’re basically limiting yourself to a quarter or so of your payload. I’m sure what everyone come here for is how to lead and I would recommend about 2-3 bird lengths on a direct cross at around 20-25 yards at speed

With power lines you just need to pay attention and not shoot towards the lines.

today was my first time ever hunting in general, and first time hunting dove. I had such a good time, definitely needed that pointer about marking wear they fall cuz I needed help finding a few of them but only truly lost 1. I will deploy much more of these tips next time. thank you!

Been hunting the lil buggers for yrs , I’m still at 5 per box ! They have a way of dipping at the right time ! 😂

Great video! The only problem is: it’s been raining in North Texas every day since opening day and there aren’t any dove this year!

Great tips! Going to try dove hunting with these tips. Thank you for the informative video.

Some of the best dove hunting advice I have yet to c on Utube. Your gonna grow into a hell of a hunter young man. and welcome to come hunt with me anytime in Southeastern NC! I have 2 very, very large farmers that give me hunting access to all of their land. And they grow corn year after year. Some great hunting. I gave my last bird 5 feet of lead and about 6 inches high of lead, at at least 55 or 60 yards yesterday and nailed him with my 12 gauge side by side muzzle loading shotgun. I have developed an awesome dove load for this gun out the improved and the modified barrels. This gun is so versatile. I can hunt anything from dove, geese, squirrel, deer, and even bear with a 1 1/4 ounce patched round ball slug that weighs an impressive 550 grains. I highly recommend a muzzle loading shotgun, your thank me if you ever get you one, trust me. And oh yea, I shoot a 1 3/8 ounce of # 6,7, 8, and 9 shot for my dove load.

Smartest hunt tips I've ever heard.

Excellent Video ! Indeed, when I use a combination of Chokes 3 and 5 (double barrel gun), I do very well with a success rate of almost 50% with pretty long shots. Yet, when I change to 2 and 4, the rate dramatically drops to 20%. I thought that there was a problem with my choke tubes :) :) However, I prefer shooting doves when they fly above me. It is true that the lead changes significantly as the bird gets closer to you but I got used to it.

Dude… I’ve just been walking out the front door and shooting one or two doves a day. Did this and bagged 13 doves in about 4 hours.

Cant wait for the first I'm practicing on skeets

A other whistle call you can do when they’re trying to land when you need them to keep going. Is a sound they make when they take off into flight. If they’re about to land and they hear one take off, they will change their mind and abort the landing thus giving you the shot. This works if they’re flying low and fast because they’re panicky too from shots. The whistle is all the same note. Fast beat. Wuwuwuwuwuw. High low high low high low high low whistle as fast as you can. When a bird leaves out from sitting, he is buffing air with every flap, and he will make that sound when he flys off. Listen to one fly off and you’ll hear the wuwuwuwuw sound he makes. Just replicate that whistle when a batch comes in trying to land and you want them to abort the landing and take back to the air

If you're in a state where you have to use steel shot drop down to a cylinder bore.

Good tips I will defently use them.

Nice tips man

Great tips👍can't wait for the dove video's

I’m watching this while I am dove hunting

Cant wait untill the morning

Been waiting for dove season for a long time

Great tips Thomas!

3 days in a row woot woot! Good video bro!

Thank you very much you gave some great pointers...

Good vid bro hope u have a good season

Good tips. Drop the hat trick is a great suggestion. Thanks for posting! 🕊🔫

Very helpful but word of advice don’t shoot towards power lines if game warden see that it’s a fat ticket bud

I shot a dove this morning and it dropped 6 yards in front of me and I treyed shooting his friend and turned around and a chicken hawk stole that bird

Well done man

Thanks for the tips! Stoked for the opener here in a week

Love my voodoo mojo. One bad thing about them on public land the doves trying to land right on top of it. Cuz you can't be shooting that low lol. And I have a dove call Primos I've seen doves come right to that thing within 10 seconds lol

I use a modified choke because its built into my 870 shot gun

Love those right over shots just love them

Very good tips!

Thanks man, got limits today going with the improved cylinder

Man cant wait for Sep 1.....this will be my first time hunting ever. And I will be solo....any tips hunting in wildlife management area ?

The raised decoy are the best

You will want a mod choke once you get to where you can make 50-60 yard shots. IC is fine out to 40. I've had too many breast feathers come off with open chokes; even with #8 shot. It is one of the few things that pisses me off while hunting. Doves have one of the smallest vitas of any game. IC is great for pigeons. IMO cylinder chokes are really only good for rabbits, woodcocks and sometimes grouse. Id rather miss than wing a bird. Next thing you know it goes and lands 100 yards away in some tall grass or thick tree line. Good luck finding most of them without a dog.

Thanks! That helps a lot. I was just kind of wandering the edge of the field hoping I would jump them up like pheasants or quail. Sounds a lot like duck hunting. Do I need a blind and a lot of decoys like for ducks and geese?

good info . heres 1 for you / repair your fence

Great video. Thanks for the Helpful tips

tomorrow is opening day good luck

Thanks for the tips!

Two comments: first you shot at the power line, not a good idea; second your "mouth" call is okay, but use an actual call for fantastic results (Faulks or Primos are both great).

Terrible advice for the power line ... you literally shot at the power line lol

I can’t wait to start hunting myself. Never dove hunt before so I’m here taking notes. I do got a question though, I see this gun I want. It’s the escort youth semi auto shotgun. Have you by any chance seen it or shot it before? I’m not really tall so I’m thinking a small gun will help me more.

excellent advice!

i’ve been hunting, and dove hunting since i was abt 4 but i’ve never been without my brother, dad, or mom this weekend me and my bsf are going dove hunting alone both for our first time and we’re nervous that the one time we go alone we’re gonna mess up 💀

Burnt wheat is another thing to look out 4

Man this video got me sooo Hardt for September

What if you hit the power line

Switched to a Trulock IC choke and immediately started killing more birds.

Recommended chokes for over n under shotgun?

What all do you need to hunt public dove fields? Do you have to call and say you’ll be there or have permission? I don’t have any where to hunt and been seeing stuff about public dove fields not too far from me

Good tips but can't use lead shot in texas

Ok that helps

I live in chesapeake and go hunt chickahominy and big woods but there's never any crows or doves maybe hunting wrong time?

I have a pellet gun sooo I only like get 1

Thank you best tips

What do you do with them, do you cook them?

I’ve been told I get up to shoot too early. Is there a specific time to get up ?

Pretty sure your not supposed to hunt by power lines!!

I’ve lost a lot of hats doing that. 😂

Couple more hours left Who here is from Mississippi

Thank you man much appreciated

Thought this was going to be a decent video until a minute in he shows himself blasting power lines lol. “Not my problem” kind of move right there not cool

Never heard a dove whistle

Lost a bird for about 15 min I knew exactly where it was and ended up being underneath my hat I threw down

Don't shoot towards power lines!!!!

Just kidding

Wanna shoot more doves ? - Take a trip to Cordoba, Argentina..

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You lost me at Mojo....

For God’s sake what’s wrong with you people. Where are your moral values, ethics, compassion, empathy, ethics and humanity? It’s mind blowing why on Earth would anyone would want to KILL innocent beings, just to fulfil your crippled, selfish ego and outdated habits.