Adding a spinning-wing dove decoy to your arsenal, where legal, can often help pull in those out-of-range birds. (Lynn Burkhead photo)
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
In the infancy of my wingshooting career, I never worried about carrying any dove decoys into the field. After all, the local dove hunting was good and good shooting always came down to being in the right spot, i.e., the old real estate adage of "location, location, location."
Over the years, I've realized that the dove hunting is spotty at best in the part of North Texas I live in, which is a far cry from the good old days when my backyard haunts and the surrounding environs were covered with grain field after grain field.
That's not to say that good, even great, dove shooting cannot still be found in my neck of the woods because it still can be. But you've got to...