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Getting anxious for the up coming dove season and bought some surprising realistic decoys. Anyone have recommendations for any modern decoys? Maybe someone found some they prefer?
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I use some wood ones also but only on special days, plus not as nostalgic with spinning wing decoys at same time

Ah, love dove shooting. I use a dove tree with a flapper and a couple of stationary doves attached. Usually gets their attention. So are those your two top dove guns? What are they may I ask.

I think this year I will take a hammer 16ga and one of the heavier 16ga hammerless each hunt and rotate.Pieper, Meffert and Guyot all 16s.

Gastine Renette (francotte action) Belgium blitz/huebertus

J. Smets H&H want a be 16ga( nice 7lb 30in full/full) wand of a gun.

Ok post anything dove decoy or dove gun related. Just some fuel for the dove season. Thanks

Really neat decoys. Totally out of this world, awesome guns-- I don't think the thread is- OFF TOPIC? You couldn't have posted something more ON TOPIC. (Just pullin' your leg). Totally interesting!! Really gorgeous guns!! Thanks for sharing. And good luck!! 😉

Dove decoys work amazingly well, at times. Then, for some reason, doves seem to totally ignore them. I use 'em. They're part of my "kit", both stationary and spinning wing ones. With the spinning wing dekes, the higher up you can position them the better off you will be.

Judas doves atop a center pivot irrigation system pipeline. Like a magnet and steel.

I use decoys for doves of several types.
Also shoot decoying pigeons. One thing I notice with the pigeons is that no decoy works as well as the real thing. The sooner I get my spread populated with dead birds, well positioned the better the result. I think it’s similar with doves.

The decoy shown above is lovely but I doubt it’s very effective. The shiny surface will show from great distance. Might need to cover it in dust.

A cheap plastic dove deke can be used very effectively if you are near a single, or three phase power line. Many of these dekes have an eyelet on top of the back for a string. Take a fishing reel and tie on the dove. Throw it over the BOTTOM line of a power line (on a single phase line there are two. Top one is hot but the bottom one is a neutral with no power. Same on a three phase line, but three top ones are hot and bottom is a neutral). Reel up all the slack until the deke is tight up against the bottom of the neutral line. Doves will light right beside it and don't seem bothered at all that their "buddy" is under the line that they're perched on top of. Of course, we wouldn't shoot one off the line, but rather as it approaches, or flies away. Trust me, the approach shot is easier than the departing one.

We have a place in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Lots of white wings, but very few mourning doves. I took some mojo decoys down a few years ago and the white wings had zero interest in them. Anyone else had that experience?