Palouse Outdoors:Enhance the Hunt with DIY Dove Decoys

A few years back, a social media friend began a wooden dove decoy migration event to raise awareness of the tradition and art of handcrafted wooden decoys for bird hunting. Each year around September 1st, he would send a dozen handmade dove silhouettes from Georgia across the country to be hunted over in various regions. Being a traditionalist, I thrust myself into the migration route, adding Washington to the list of states these well-traveled decoys have landed.

Aside from experiencing a new facet of bird hunting tradition, two things struck me about the endeavor. First, I was unaware that d...