Decoys can be extremely effective for dove hunting, but plastic mourners have always presented one huge problem: where to put them so they can be seen. Gray fakes against the grayish soil of a ...

LOUISBURG, MINN. - I was in a late-morning stupor, nearly asleep in my hunting blind, when two mourning doves suddenly landed near my spinning winged dove decoy. I stood, shouldering my 12 gauge, and ...

Nevertheless, I set out three large, hand-carved pigeon decoys, then placed a spinning-wing dove decoy off by itself. Distant from both of those I rigged a half-dozen small dove decoys that were ...

The use of decoys in the hunting of ducks, geese, turkeys and even deer is as much a part of the sport as firearms and camouflage. But only recently have hunters begun to accept them for use in the ...

I often get this question asked of me at this time of the year: “Do dove decoys really work?” In short, yes they do, and they work very well. I am a big believer in using decoys for dove, especially ...

After the best opening day mourning dove hunt we’ve seen in a while, my wife, Emilie, and I wound up on a pretty slow second-day hunt. Luckily, we had our mojo working. There weren’t many birds at ...