Last post and answers got me to thinking. What is a crowd when hunting. Dove season opened the first here, I went before work to watch, I counted 14 guys in a 6 acre patch of mowed sunflowers. I knew two of them. If you knew what you were doing it was not terribly dangerous. I personally don't do it (too crowded). Hunted with PW on an invite Sunday night and had a great night shooting doves and Bull. Tip of the day, beware a guy who shows up to shoot doves with a little sxs 410 and 2 1/2 in. shells. He can make fun of your big cannon 28 and probably out shoot you. Anyway I move to the next parking spot or away from other hunters on public if I see them hunting. I figure 100 acres per party of two to four is plenty of room. About an hours worth of hunting, but I hunt slow for pheasants. If the other group blows through cover I'll hunt behind them from a different direction quietly. 100 acres or smaller plots with another group and I move on, it's public. I've hunted with a line of 20 in SD many times, got invited for the dogs I had. Too crowded and hectic to enjoy myself. but there is a challenge in handling the pandemonium and dogs. I enjoyed it at the time. What is too crowded for you to enjoy the hunt. In a practical sense it takes minimum 3-5 guys to efficiently hunt and block a typical piece of cover in my experience. If killing birds is the primary objective. IMHO. What is too crowded?