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What's the opening date for dove season this year?

They want say at MS Dept wildlife yet, but I am betting its gonna be on Sunday the 1st of September.

Since it is a Fed bird I thought they could not open a hunting season on a Sunday.

huntsober wrote:Since it is a Fed bird I thought they could not open a hunting season on a Sunday.

Tennessee will open Sunday, September 1st, at noon. Tennessee always opens on the 1st no matter what day of the week it is. Mississippi usually opens the 1st Saturday in September, so that should be September 7th.

It will not open in Mississippi on a Sunday......

DUCKAHOLIC wrote:It will not open in Mississippi on a Sunday......

Pretty sure it will open Sunday the 1st at 2 p.m.

They released the minutes from the April meeting where it was approved.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z3bbo3zrh57qw ... utes-1.pdf

DUCKAHOLIC wrote:It will not open in Mississippi on a Sunday......

It did in 2002.

Maybe because its federal......I know when bow season falls on a Sunday they always roll it back to Saturday

DUCKAHOLIC wrote:Maybe because its federal......I know when bow season falls on a Sunday they always roll it back to Saturday

He don't know what he is talking about. He acts like he used to be a game warden

There's a Mississippi statute that says "Whenever the time fixed by statute for the beginning of a game season shall fall on a Sunday, the season shall begin on the preceding Saturday." Bow season begins on October 1 by statute. If October 1 is a Sunday, the season will open on the preceding Saturday.

However, this rule doesn't apply to migratory birds because those seasons are not fixed by Mississippi statute. They're set by the Commission within the feds' framework. Or something.

randywallace wrote:

DUCKAHOLIC wrote:It will not open in Mississippi on a Sunday......

Pretty sure it will open Sunday the 1st at 2 p.m.

They released the minutes from the April meeting where it was approved.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z3bbo3zrh57qw ... utes-1.pdf

I wonder why 2pm? I dont go out of my way to dove hunt mornings, just curious.

So that you're not banging away at dub's while people are sitting in church.

Federal statutes mandate hunting of migratory birds on or after September 1. I think it's a good idea to start at 2 p.m. on Sundays. Used to be an afternoon opener by default. It's never felt the same getting up duck-blind or deer-stand early to hunt doves (but I do when that's the game plan). Given a last-meal-type one last hunt, I'd wish for a Mississippi opener and be perfectly contented with an old-time 12 bird limit as long there were friends, family, bacon-wrapped doves and ice cold beer afterwards.

Double R 2 wrote:Federal statutes mandate hunting of migratory birds on or after September 1. I think it's a good idea to start at 2 p.m. on Sundays. Used to be an afternoon opener by default. It's never felt the same getting up duck-blind or deer-stand early to hunt doves (but I do when that's the game plan). Given a last-meal-type one last hunt, I'd wish for a Mississippi opener and be perfectly contented with an old-time 12 bird limit as long there were friends, family, bacon-wrapped doves and ice cold beer afterwards.

I'm all for this, as well!

Early Canada goose hunt in the morning and dove hunt that afternoon? Can't beat that in September.

champcaller wrote:

Double R 2 wrote:Federal statutes mandate hunting of migratory birds on or after September 1. I think it's a good idea to start at 2 p.m. on Sundays. Used to be an afternoon opener by default. It's never felt the same getting up duck-blind or deer-stand early to hunt doves (but I do when that's the game plan). Given a last-meal-type one last hunt, I'd wish for a Mississippi opener and be perfectly contented with an old-time 12 bird limit as long there were friends, family, bacon-wrapped doves and ice cold beer afterwards.

I'm all for this, as well!

Early Canada goose hunt in the morning and dove hunt that afternoon? Can't beat that in September.

Sounds glorious.