Small Game Archives - Page 23 of 26

June 24, 2026

Concentrate on a dove’s head, keep your cheek on the stock, follow through and add him to your limit.

Double Delights

James Covington and Norman Ledford Jr. are residents of York County who regularly limit out on doves using only one box of shells. […]

Public dove fields, many planted in corn, sunflowers and other grains, are scattered across the state to attract doves.

Doing the Dove Dance

Craig Holt

The best dove hunt floating on top of my memory happened when I was about 12 or 13 years old. My dad and about a dozen of his friends drove to an Alamance County farm. […]

Pat Foy Brady of Reidsville said practicing with a few rounds of skeet before dove season will help sharpen your shooting eye before dove season arrives.

How to hit a dove

Craig Holt

The anomaly of mourning doves is they weigh on average only 4 ½ ounces but are one of the most-difficult-to-down game birds in the world. […]

South Carolina hunters will have 42 public dove fields to choose from if they aren't invited to a hunt on private land.

State has prepared 42 public dove fields

SCDNR News Release

Forty-two public dove fields will be available across South Carolina during the 2012-13 season through the S.C. Department of Natural Resources’s WMA program. […]

Sunflowers need two herbicide treatments to kill weeds: one before planting and one when plants are developing, 100 days from maturity.

Protect sunflowers now

Jeff Burleson

The 95-degree days of June can easily pull dove fanatics off course, but Labor Day is less than 100 days away. […]

Brush piles and tree laps are good places to check as rabbits like to sit in that type of cover near a food source.

Rabbit habitat

Craig Holt

Alston Quarter is a wild section of land — a half-mile by a half-mile — in Alamance County known to locals as “Austin Quarter” that’s been called “The Quarter” since the 1700s. […]

A pack of beagles can be composed of anywhere from five to 12 dogs, as long as they run a rabbit at the same pace.

How many beagles to hunt rabbits?

Craig Holt

Beagle owners who hunt rabbits don’t need a dozen or two dogs to have a large-enough pack of hounds to chase bunnies. […]

After the first two or three hunts of the season, wild quail will retreat into some of the thickest, heaviest cover that offers them the most protection.

Ben Chewning has run bird dogs over most of the 5,000 acres on the Buchanan Shoals Sportsman’s Preserve in Anson County, so he’s got a good idea of what kind of wild quail live on the property — even though he mostly runs guided hunts for released birds. […]