A couple of years ago here in N.C. a guy tried to start a pigeon shoot. He had the traps and leased a spot on a farm, put up the ring and wired everything up to work . Seems finding pigeons was a real problem. Trapping them was hard to do and buying and keeping them was expensive.
From what I remember he tried chukar and had some good sucess with them. The real upside was chukar are good to eat.

Mike Proctor