As we were spending time at the ranch trying to harvest a nice buck or good eating hog, the second split season for dove was going on and man could I hear the neighbors just tearing them up.  After we got out of the blind and walking back to the truck I could see huge flocks of whitewings and morning dove landing in the trees on our property.  As we left the hunt location all the surrounding ranches were holding a tremendous amount of birds and there were some lucky hunters who were hunting them.  I we weren't so desperate to shoot a deer, we would have been right there with them.  Funny thing is we made it back home and were getting ready to fire up the pit and do some grilling when a huge flock of whitewings landed in the china berry trees planted in the front yard, since we live out in the country, my brother in law grabbed the .22 cal and tried his luck at dropping some birds for the pit, fired around 5 shots, but nothing dropped and the huge flock of birds just moved a few hundread feet south from our location.  It looked like the second split dove season could have been more productive then the regualr season!!!