I don't understand the reason to be upset over this. Why should one type of hunter have the woods to themselves? Has it occurred to anyone that there are lots of different small game and bird hunters? What if the rule was that you couldn't bowhunt the rut because only small game hunters were allowed? You wouldn't like it, anddove huntersshould be able to be the same way. This is the time of year to get doves and you won't necessarily get them if you don't get them at specific times of the year in some places. In Oklahoma, bow season is three months long. If every other hunter waited for that to end, they would not get any good fall hunting. I love to bowhunt, but if I am not on private land, I don't think I should get mad that somebody else is hunting small game. This is why I get nervous to take my squirrel dogs out, because I am afraid some bowhunter who thinks I shouldn't be out there will stick an arrow in my dogs who have just as much right to a place as them. When you go out there, if you here some dove hunters, just realize that they are probably having a blast hunting, as much fun in their minds as bowhunting is to you, and think how it would be for them if they couldn't dove hunt, or take their kid dove hunting, because the bowhunters had the market cornered. I do wish you luck though, on your hunt.