Look for ponds with a "roost" tree close and set up some "decoys" and get ready !

We have tried to see if small food plots would attract them, but found this couldnt compete with the big farms to really bring in any numbers. So you just need to find some where you can hunt. Look for them on wires on telephone poles, you can get where you can spot them from a pretty good distance... then you know you have some hanging around that area.

Big O's approach works best for me. I cut decoys out of masonite and put a little wire hanger on them. I hang them in the roosting tree and set up underneath it. I put about 2 dozen decoys in the tree or if there are several trees, I put a couple dozen in each tree that is in range.

It takes hundreds of acres of grain, over several years, to attract a breeding population of migratory birds to your place. I have seen it done. I have seen flocks of doves so large that everybody in the field (at least 20) shot birds out of it. I stood with my big brother when I was 8 and saw him shoot three times and five birds fell. A pre-war 16-gauge A-5.