Argentina Dove Hunting

You can enjoy hunting Doves in our 2 lodges: La Macarena and El Rocío. We have a very professional staff who will assure an lifetime experience you will never forget.

Doves fly strong all year long here. We guarantee that you can shoot upwards of a (1,000) thousand rounds a day. Many hunters harvest well over a thousand (1,000) birds a day. The present record holder is Hunter Lawson Smith, with 5107 Doves in one day. He shot 8250 shells that day. Come see if you can top that!

The season is all year around but the best time is from August to April because that is the time where the doves reproduce, from 6 to 8 times. Dove hunting Testimonies

Argentina Dove Hunting... The doves are the smallest of the doves. Nothing more to see it they call the attention the bright thing of their color plumage. The doves mix in their wings the black, brown colors and white, this give them a very gaudy aspect. The chest is of pink color and the white womb, calling powerfully the attention the orbital spot of red color, as well as the great distinctive spot of blacklists on white fund that light up in the neck when are adults. Their queue is of black color with the tip of white color. Among the doves not large appreciable differences among both sexes exist.

Their habitat is above all places where there are large bushes and is scarce the arboreal density as the boundaries of the forests and the bushy steppes where are carried out hunting the greater activity. Also they inhabit the zones of farming with large hedges where not so common their hunt is.

The diet of the doves is based fundamentally in bud of herbs and seeds. Its diet is essentially vegetable, although in epoch of young they carry out some hunt of small insects. The doves are used to feeding walking for the floor, nibbling in search of food what simplifies its hunt. As it occurs with the doves, they drink aspiring water of a continuous form, as opposed to other birds that have to raise the head so that the water arrives at the throat.

The nest of the doves is carried out to a height from among 2 and 5 meters of the floor what permits a clear viewing in the hunting days. It is a matter of a platform lined of popsicles and branches where the female will incubate two white brown eggs. The chickens are born after 12 days of incubation and two weeks later will leave the nest. Their flight is very acrobatic, carrying out strong palpitations followed by small glidings, not too far of the floor, this is very characteristic of the doves. It can acquire great velocity, as opposed to the doves; its palpitation is faster and light.

Its claim is a smooth one I rumor that repeats three continued times generally and that can vary depending on the situation of the doves (mating season, coverage of its territory). It is a matter of a “rurr-rurr-rurrr" that declares reiteratively a great number of times.

The doves are very noisy during the courtship display, and its claims are heard to various hundreds of meters, what permits to establish quickly its location in the hunt.

They possesses a larger digestive conduit, call belly, being this a quality of the doves and in it the grains they are mollified, seeds and insects that is fed,

The population of doves is calculated that oscillates between the 2.8 and the 14 million couples, which an excellent species for its hunt does it.

The doves are a very frequent species, that is used to seeing in its zone basal, being able also to be observed in zones of cultivation and zones of scrub. The edicts of doves begin upon arriving the month of April and they remain in the saw until the end of September, this is when they emigrate.