I was wondering if anyone had any insight on using a setup for crow and dove. I would LOVE to be able to hunt both my favorite animals at once. Will dove come where crow are? I would think they will run them off and the dove would see the crow decoy and shy away. But what if they are out together?
Yes, I OFTEN do that. The trick is to set the pigeon/dove decoys up first, allowing a large area for them to land INTO the wind. A U shape or an L shape is best, with the bend where the wind is coming from as they like to land towards others, and into the wind. Then at LEAST 20-30 metres off to one side, put some crow decoys. If you don't keep a distance between the two patterns, then most birds will find it unnatural, and shy away.
However, correctly done, it works great, and gets you lots of both.
In fact, that's what I'm doing tomorrow, although I won't have enough pigeon decoys with me to form a U or L pattern, so will put them on the edge of the flattened barley, and hope that draws them in.
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I rarely do it that way these days but I do put out pigeons with crow decoys....it does work...it brings them both in at least here in America...the story goes I was going to give the extra crow decoys and pigeons to a friend but he changed his mind so I set out the dozen pigeon decoys with the extra crow decoys and had quite an impressive spread!
What we did was to spread them out! try to make it look natural; there will always be a few pigeons eating together, a couple of crows here and there...looks really authentic...the rest is a secret-sorry-too much competition around here!
I will say the barrel got a little hot but i missed a lot too! New to me shotgun and the heaviest shotgun I've used in years!