farm hunter, what a bummer! In Arkansas, dove season usually opens around the first of September kicking off our fall hunting season. We greatly look forward to this hunt, but there seem to be more dove in the later season ( dove is broken into three seperate seasons here). Maybe you can get other hunters that are interested in dove hunting to band together and appeal to your Wildlife Management offices to change it. Even though they are a song bird, they are also a game bird. Our governing wildlife agency A.G.& F.C. hold meetings open to the public throughout the state to get hunters input that is taken into consideration for the upcoming seasons. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!