For hunters, months of anticipation mercifully ended Wednesday - a date, Sept. 1, that thousands await all year with goofy eagerness. Dove season, which lasts through Sept. 15 and then resumes in mid-November for 44 days, draws among the biggest hunting turnouts of the year and marks the first in the autumn series of hunts. The state Department of Fish and Game estimates 80,000 hunters bag nearly 2 million doves annually.
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