You are indeed lucky- the PETA numbnutz and the Bible-thumpers (bird of peace and all that crapola) outvoted us 70/30 two years ago for a legal dove season- had a tentative one- lasted about as long as a fart remains in a wind tunnel- Do you have to use steel shot- as doves are migrants? I have a "newer" double that is great on barn pigeons (as was its predecessor) 12 ga. 30" tight chokes- and I see doves on the dairy farms where I shoot pigeons- but they are "Verbotten"- and if my gunning Hero- the late Nash Buckingham- says they are the greatest gunning target awing- I'll believe him (with divers from a layout boat in a heavy chop with a crosswind second- those I know a little about-bring lotsa shells- RWTF

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..