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Title: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: crabcreekhunter on August 26, 2025, 01:08:30 PM: Anyone else getting excited for the opener? I will be over in the basin the first three days.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: MMCCAULEY on August 26, 2025, 04:07:15 PM: Never dove hunted before, but i'm gonna give it a shot this year!
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: acrocker on August 26, 2025, 04:14:38 PM: If you're like me, you better plan on giving it a LOT of shots..... :chuckle:
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: nwwanderer on August 27, 2025, 05:07:08 AM: Little and fast=bunch of ammo, not a bunch of meat. Sharpen your ID skills, I like sparrow hawks!!!
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: Threewolves on August 27, 2025, 09:08:06 AM: I was checking the fee schedule, and it looks like you have to have a small game license 57.00 and a migratory bird permit 20.00, so for 77.00, you could be hunting dove! That's crazy.

Or if you already have a small game license, it's only 20.00 extra dollars for dove. That's still crazy. You should be able to hunt them with just your small game license.

I suppose there is a dove enhancement program dedicated dove habit improvement, managed by a team of dove biologists, and this money is buying acres of land...
Sorry, I find myself in a picticular negative mood this morning.

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Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: metlhead on August 27, 2025, 10:44:09 AM: Fair size DFW property near me has crops and I was told the primary reason was for doves. Not sure the truth but it sure has a bunch through autumn.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: Pnwrider on August 27, 2025, 03:46:08 PM: Good reminder to change the batteries in the decoys and clean the shotgun. Hoping for a repeat of last year and quick limits to avoid the holiday traffic otherwise I might stay an extra day.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: Frostbite on August 28, 2025, 10:30:50 AM: I'll be hunting near Othello.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: metlhead on August 28, 2025, 10:42:56 AM: I've 100+ that use my property including a few dozen collards. Always wondered where they come and go. Never seem anyone huntin em either. Had spots in Tenino and Toledo that 3 of us would hit em hard and never put a dent in the numbers.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: crabcreekhunter on August 28, 2025, 06:18:01 PM: Have a decent flight line of them on the farm so should get some decent action, either way one of my favorite hunts of the year!
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: Dan-o on August 28, 2025, 07:06:03 PM: Quote from: crabcreekhunter on August 28, 2025, 06:18:01 PM
Have a decent flight line of them on the farm so should get some decent action, either way one of my favorite hunts of the year!

I'm jealous.

I grew up missing hundreds of doves in Utah...... I think i even hit one.

That is such a fun hunt.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: RC on August 28, 2025, 07:27:37 PM: Been hunting the opener in the Yakima Valley with my dad, uncle, cousins and various other friends and family every year for the last 40 years. Wouldn’t miss it for the world.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: CasterlyRock on August 28, 2025, 08:55:45 PM: Any intel on the good spots near Moses Lake?
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: crabcreekhunter on August 29, 2025, 06:24:33 AM: Quote from: CasterlyRock on August 28, 2025, 08:55:45 PM
Any intel on the good spots near Moses Lake?
Probably won’t get any specific spots but lots of really great areas between I90 south to othello. Look for cut wheat fields/small seed weeds with water, gravel, roosting nearby and you should be in the birds. Figure out the travel corridor they use for the morning/evening and have some fun!
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: C-Money on August 29, 2025, 06:32:16 AM: I'm going to miss it this year. 9/1 lands on a work day for me. Maybe, just maybe time to get out the last hour, but probably will just wait. Good luck to everyone!
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: MMCCAULEY on August 29, 2025, 08:40:57 AM: Do you guys find more success in the mornings or evenings?
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: C-Money on August 29, 2025, 09:14:28 AM: I've had great luck hunting both. Probably had more consistent success in the evening. That could be because I hunt more in the evening...Rarely hunting morning past opening day.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: Parasite on August 29, 2025, 01:28:54 PM: This sounds like a lot of fun. Might have to give it a shot in 2026.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: crabcreekhunter on August 30, 2025, 11:12:25 AM: I have most success in the evening but I tend to hunt evenings more. It is a great low intensity bonding type hunt, also great for getting kids interested in hunting. Good weather and some trigger time, not much not to like!
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: Mfowl on September 02, 2025, 07:51:15 AM: How did the opener go? Anyone melting barrels? I might hunt Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, just curious if it's worth it to endure the burning sun!
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: C-Money on September 02, 2025, 10:23:30 AM: Opening morning was a bust for my son. He said the spot he scouted was over ran by mosquitos. He got 3 in the afternoon before football practice. He didn't get hunt the prime flight time. Cleaned his birds and was on time for practice.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: MMCCAULEY on September 02, 2025, 10:53:08 AM: Got a few but nothing crazy.
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: crabcreekhunter on September 02, 2025, 11:43:03 AM: Opening morning the 3 of us almost limited, a few euros mixed in. Enough shooting to have a good time and not to hot and heavy to make it go too quick. Watched from the porch this morning and wasn’t nearly as much going on
Title: Re: 2025 Dove Season
Post by: Frostbite on September 02, 2025, 04:00:44 PM: I shot a limit of doves this morning. Slow steady action, not very fast paced.