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Check Web site for dove-field updates

During the first two weeks of August, biologists with the N.C. Wildlife Resource Commission send information to Raleigh about what’s been planted and is growing at game-lands food plot across the state. […]

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How to hit a dove

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. […]

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For the Love of the Dove

In the beginning, Louis Batson III was his dad’s designated retriever in the dove field — a 5-year-old boy scrambling through corn stalks to pick up birds brought down by the blast of his father’s humpback Browning 12-gauge. […]

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Dove-Day Afternoon

The gray, feathered missile bobbed and weaved, riding the afternoon breeze as several loads of No. 8 lead shot narrowly missed making contact and sending it tumbling to the ground. […]