Somehow the summer is slipping by more rapidly than normal. The 1st of September will be here soon and with it comes dove season. I consider dove hunting one of the more challenging and enjoyable of the hunting seasons. A few years ago, I went to Argentina dove hunting. I have to say it wasn’t a very good dove shot at the beginning but I was much better by the end of the trip. That trip was really a safari. A bird boy is assigned to each hunter and they tally every shot. The first day I was limping along with a 25% hit ratio. There were 23 of us in the hunting party and each night everyone’s hit ratio went up on a board for all to see. The good news is I wasn’t last. By the last day of the four-day trip I was at 75%. Doves are a pest in Argentina. We were in Cordoba Province and doves eat an estimated 50,000 bushels of grain a day in that province alone. The farmers were glad to see us. We ate dove every day for lunch and the bird boys took the rest to their families and villages and shared them with everyone. They are very poor there so they were glad to have the meat. At the end of four days, I was in the upper middle of the pack with 1794 doves. In all, we killed over 44,000 doves.