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...some 25,000 other happy hunters fanned out across the 900-sq.-mi. valley last week for the opening of the month-long dove season, an annual bar-and-feathering ritual that features frolics on both sides of the Mexican border as well as bagfuls of succulent, bite-sized Zenaidura macroura carolinensis (legal limit; ten Zenaiduras per day per hunter). Before the four dove-taking weeks are up, some hundred thousand hunters will have bagged 4,000,000 birds. But it won't be easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hunting: Dove Days | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

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