• Watch a dove you have hit all the way to the ground. Mark that spot in your mind and pick out an outstanding object in the distance to line up the path you need to follow to recover the bird.
• Unless you are talented like James Covington, go directly to a dead bird as soon as it falls for a higher recovery rate.
• Reload your gun by feel rather than sight when proceeding toward a downed dove. When you look down to reload, you loose your concentration on where the dove fell.
• Carry a blaze orange piece of cloth to use as a marker when you arrive at the place you expect a dead dove to be.
• Pick up your empty hulls after the hunt. Plastic hulls take a long time to rot.
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