What’s the least amount of shells you’ve ever used to kill a limit of 15? IMO 3 shells per dove is doing pretty good. It took me 49 to kill my limit Saturday, and I felt like I was shooting pretty good!

I think you mean "shells per dove" At least for me.

2 boxes for a limit isn't bad. Shells are cheap anyway.

Killed a lot of limits with a box of shells. Those days usually involved a dead tree and doves slowing down to land. Shooting good under normal conditions will use 2 boxes. Normal is a limit in 2 1/2 to 3 boxes. Shooting poorly or high birds and 4 boxes are needed.

Never got more detailed than that. Once the box gets dumped into the game pouch, I am too busy to count shells.

Never tried to be conservative...ill shoot at em way off just to see a miracle

Not sure how true it is or where they got the info but I read one time that an it take a hunter an average of 6 shots per bird. I shot doves last year for the first time in a long while. At first I sucked. Took me 18 shots to kill the first bird. By the time the birds left I was back in the swing of it and constantly pulling doubles with the citori.

15 dove with 12 shells!

I can usually average about 2 shells per bird if they are not flying super high....

I usually get 1 Dove per box.

my best shoot was 14 birds...think I shot 2.5 boxes of shells

best day was 12 shots/12 birds. Limit was 12 then.

watched my dad kill 12 straight on afternoon many many years ago. Watched an old black man on a Greene Co shoot kill 12 for 12 with a 16 ga single shot. He missed one and killed two with one shot!!!!

day in day out I could kill a limit out of a box of shells or less.

Best was probably 15 with 18-19 shots. Typical is a limit with a box to a box and a half, depending on how picky I am with my shots. 20 guage, 1oz 8's, imp cyl most of the time or maybe a mod if they are flying high. If there's a decent number of birds and they are flying good and I'm careful and don't take a bunch of 45 yd shots, I can generally limit out with a box. If they are not there in good numbers or not flying good, I wont be nearly as picky on my shots and my average/dove goes up.

28 shells Saturday.

Back when I could see well usually one shot per bird but I would wait for.good shots. Most always a couple or three doubles and sometimes a triple.
Haven't shot at a dove in at least 5 years. Even when I have a shoot at the house I usually just keep my gun handy and kill the ones that fly over the barn/shop.

Remember those days 50 plus years ago.....Those Gunners were my HERO!!!

I'm raising the BS flag on this.

I take 2 boxes just in case the shoot is crappy and I have to sky bust a few.

I'll give some of y'all a tip.... if you shoot #6 and hit the bird it will typically go down. I don't feel like #8's carry nearly enough energy unless the birds are all close. The cheaper the shells the more I have to shoot..... some of the cheapo Federal shells I feel like I'm throwing a hand full of sand at them.

I killed 15 in 3 shots in Argentina.

In Argentina I killed 157 without a miss my last day there. Killed almost 1,100 that day. But, normal Alabama shooting, the best I think I've ever done was 30 shots for 15 birds. Usually it takes me 2 boxes.

I've never been that good on doves. Was pretty good at trap and sporting clays at one time. I think Argentina would give me enough practice. It is on my bucket list! Best I ever saw them fly here I was by myself two weeks after opening day. They started flying between two dead trees four and five at a time. Like every five minutes. Think I got two out of two boxes. They weren't even that high but real fast and swerving.

Shoot em if you got em

if you want to see yer average go to hell try a December hunt.....

You got that right....BIG Ole Blue Nawthun' Dubs on about a 30 mph wind....You CANNOT lead them too much!!

I’d Probly just shoot a 10ga on a December hunt

Do they make 7&1/2 loads for 'Em??.....Dem Nawthun' Buds are TUFF!!

You can knock enough feathers off a December dove to stuff a pillow and watch the bird fly to the horizon. Tough is an understatement!!!!

Got 21 doves for 25 shells in Argentina.

Eighteen shells for 15 birds in South Carolina a few years ago. We were in a patch of sunflower and seven or eight of us limited out in about 20 minutes. We could pick our shots.

Aside from that outlier, usually at least two boxes.

Last afternoon in Argentina last fall 909 with 1000 shells best I’ve ever shot

Best for me was 20 shells for a limit...Worst was 6 boxes years ago for 10 birds lol...I usually shoot just under 2 boxes to get a limit nowadays

I killed 62 with 3 boxes one time.

18.

A good field makes a lot of difference, easy slow passing birds, ain’t hard to hit. High, quick, birds is a whole other game

X100. If you have plenty of birds, it is a lot easier to hit them and you can pick your shots.