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Dove Hunting Ban’s Bigoted Past

Dove Hunting Ban’s Bigoted Past

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Hank Shaw
Sep 06, 2022
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Dove Hunting Ban’s Bigoted Past
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Almost no other hunt in North America triggers such an extreme reaction as does the annual September dove hunt. No animal I have hunted, and I’ve hunted swans and cranes and bunny rabbits, has elicited such a violently emotional response as has the dove.

And it is the mourning dove in particular that critics get exercised about. We hunt four species of d…

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