Going home with more birds on your bag might give you so much pleasure. But can anyone do that? Or is it just you spending more bullets than you have to? If so, here are 5 tips to improve your dove hunting skill.
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1. Lighten up
Doves are small, and their bones are light and easily broken. You need to use very small pellets to shoot them cleanly. Since it is very easy for birds and doves to be knocked down, a combination of bore constriction and shot size which give you even and dense pattern out to 30-35 yards is really recommended for you. If a bird within the 30-inch circle seems to absorb 4 or more pellets, you have much firepower.
2. Control your gun
Are you shooting with the muzzle skyward directed at a dove and just pulling the trigger? That means you don’t have gun control. To learn gun control, you must consider your shotgun a garden hose. Remember when you squirted someone? When you hit a running kid with the water stream from the hose, there must be some lead involved. If you point the nozzle at the moving target, it will wind up behind the target. To establish a lead you have to get in front and then keep swinging to make it effective.
When shooting a dove no matter the direction it is moving past the gun, swing behind the target. When you say daylight between the bird and the muzzle, pull your trigger. This approach will make the muzzle move faster which gets you to establish necessary lead and be less prone to stop your swing.
3. Control your head
You will consistently shoot high if you head is not down on the stock in the proper position. If your cheek is not snugly tucked against the comb of the stock, side-to-side swings will be erratic.
4. Shoot one your target first
When shooting a dove, make sure the one you hit the first bird you targeted before shooting the next bird. If you’re sure the first bird is hit, you can shoot on the rest of the birds. If before killing the first bird you reach the next, chances are high that you will lose the first dove and get neither of the bird.
5. Select your position
You can choose positions that possibly have high traffic, like power lines, trees, hills, and some other places. Putting some dove decoys on the fence wires, bare limbs, or any place that can be seen by firs flying into feeding area will increase your possibility.
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Source: www.gameandfishmag.com
