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Los Ombues Lodge

Argentina Photo: ELIAS SEDITA/LOS OMBUES LODGETaking aim at a sky full of doves. A typical day at Los Ombues—some 250 miles north of Buenos Aires—goes like this: After breakfast, guests leave the stately 12,000-square-foot lodge and head just down the hill to the Parana River marsh and boat to a blind. There, they hunt for ducks, including many species—like the white-cheeked pintail, the red shoveler, and the rosy-billed pochard—that may be unfamiliar to the North American hunter. After you’ve had your fill (and a café con leche), you’ll trade waders for boots and embark on a driven hunt for perdiz (red-legged partridge), which abound in the fields surrounding Los Ombues. After a lunch back at the lodge of, say, grilled dove or perdiz, sneak in a siesta—you’ll need the restorative because you’ll be heading out to some of the finest dove fields in the world, where you can shoot to your he