[damondonion]

The only two really good reasons I know of for shooting anything are for food and because whatever it is is a nuisance or a menace to man and you might include trophy hunting as a third possibility. I don’t see how doves fit into any of the three and shooting something because “it flies sort of like skeets do” doesn’t really strike me as reasonable. I’d rather shoot skeets. I don’t understand dove hunting.

[Uri’el-2012]

Welcome to FR

The name of the game is SKEET not skeets and in it you shoot birds.

Doves move very fast; faster than clay birds.

This is why people love to shoot doves.

It is called sport.

[LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot]

I was at my sister's Indiana farm once and she had a pigeon problem. I stepped out to the barn where there were two pigeons perched.

I yelled "PULL" at them and they flew off as if on cue! I was still laughing as I brought the 12 gauge up and dropped them both.

I understand shooting vermin pigeons. Its better than Sporting Clays.

[Hot Tabasco]

I don’t understand dove hunting.

Hmmmm, many people don't understand hunting, period. I guess that makes them right and me wrong.

Just curious, how many skeets do you usually shoot in a 6 month period, or a year for that matter?

[ErnBatavia]

Squab!

[Clint N. Suhks]

Dove are delicious migratory game birds.

You obviously don’t know what you are talking about.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Dove hunting falls into shooting for food, or shooting for sport which ends up as food, depending on how you look at it. They are quite tasty. There was a thread last year where we shared our dove recipes. Yum!

[A Strict Constructionist]

As they would say on the food channel. Good Eats!

[girlangler]

Some people like eating doves, including myself.

Others don’t like shooting skeet.

One thing is certain, if hunters and shooters keep turning on each other (like when grouse hunters don’t like bear hunting, compound bow hunters against crossbows) they won’t have to worry about the Humane Society of the U.S. bringing an end to the hunting tradition, they’ll do it themselves.

As long as the dove, bear, etc. populations are so that hunting is allowed, and it is done ethically and lawfully, good.

Many U.S. Forest Service offices are filled with people who don’t like hunting, or shooting, for that matter.

Keep in mind most public lands were purchased with hunters’ dollars, and these dollars contribute much to the management of wildlife on public land. Hikers, mountain bikers, rock climbers don’t contribute one dime to this.

The hunters in Colorado need to remind those who are the subject of this thread this often.