There is really good dove hunting in Dilley, Texas each year between Christmas and new years.  It is red dirt peanut fields.  (Biggest durn peanut fields I have ever seen.)  Its the best dove hunting I have ever seen in the US. 

Costs $40 or $50 for the whole day and in MHO is well worth the cost of admission.  IF you have more $$$ go to Mexico - that is absolutely awesome.

Good hunting.

The Benelli Super Black Eagle is my all time favorite.  I have either owned or shot a wide variety of shotguns ( also Beretta, Franci, Browning, Remington) and, given the choice, would take the Benelli over any of the other autos on the market today. It is just so doggone versatile - have hunted ducks, geese, dove, turkey, quail, chukkar, pheasant; have also shot skeet, trap and sporting clays with it...  It simply does it all and does it well.

There was a similar discussion on another board several months ago - the Beretta and the Winchester were also talked up as well.  A bunch of people were enamoured with the Remmy 870 pump as being the best gun for the money in the universe....

But just give me my Benelli.

Man - those are great rates for a three day hog / turkey hunt!  One of the neat things about hunting in this state is the opportunity to do a combo hunt - I have done hog / turkey; dove / coyote; hog / coyote and deer / just about anything that moves (so long as its legal) in the past three or so years! 

I hear that in Mexico there is the chance to do a dove / duck hunt on the same day for pretty reasonable rates as well.

Hey Danny - what was that line about waiting for hunting season?????  Here in Texas its ALWAYS huntn' season....... 

Sorry to hear the pup is under the weather.  If you want to take him dove hunting make sure you spend the time with him so he doesn't get gun shy that first day (I use a cap pistol at first followed a few weeks later with a 22 blank pistol). 

If its a good dove hunt he would be hearing BOOM BOOM an awful lot that first day.  When I was training Dusty, I put her in an atmosphere of only a few shots on her first hunt.  Didn't seem to bother her at all - she was having a great time that day as she has had ever since then.

Maybe we can put together a Texas Hunt and Fish dove hunt over in Dilley this year - say late in the season when they start hitting the peanut fields......

Cost would be $50 a day to hunt.  Motel there is about $40 a night.  Could sleep two or three in a room.  Arrive on a Friday or Saturday afternoon.  Shoot that day.  (I'd buy the first round that evening.)  Get up and shoot the next morning.  Drive home that evening.  Total cost would be less than $150.

Anybody interested?  If so I'll look up the hunting season and and get back with some possible weekends.