Occasionally, I find a hunting gadget or something that I want but don't want to pay too much for it or just simply think I can improve on a design. Maybe I'm just bored and want to be handier that I am. What ever the case, I saw Mojo's dove tree and thought it was a good idea, but also thought I could do it better. So I started brainstorming designs and looking for others who had trailblazed before me and I googled "DIY dove decoy tree." As is usually the case when I google anything hunting related, one of the top links for my search was from TBH.
After reading about Jerp's success with his design, I figured mine would pass muster (at least in a dove's eyes) so the next morning me and my boy headed off to Home Depot. $25 later, we had a couple of 10' lengths of PVC, a bunch of joints, PVC cement, and a couple of cans of spray paint. Once we got home we cut and joined everything together and had ourselves a pretty good looking tree. It took a little over an hour to put together and had it not been for the extraordinary amount of help from my 3 yr old, it could have taken me a whole 15 to 20 minutes to do by myself. After it was pieced together (and "the boy" was down for his nap) I cut some little notches in the bottoms of the "branches" to allow for the clips on the bottom of the decoys. Finished up with a Camo-esque paint job to immitate tree bark. I have enough notches cut into the branches to place decoys anywhere on any branch and a motorized Mojo dove will slide right down into the top.
I guess we will see how well it works in a few weeks. Hopefully I will be able to report good thing come dove season. Now, if only I could shoot better...
After reading about Jerp's success with his design, I figured mine would pass muster (at least in a dove's eyes) so the next morning me and my boy headed off to Home Depot. $25 later, we had a couple of 10' lengths of PVC, a bunch of joints, PVC cement, and a couple of cans of spray paint. Once we got home we cut and joined everything together and had ourselves a pretty good looking tree. It took a little over an hour to put together and had it not been for the extraordinary amount of help from my 3 yr old, it could have taken me a whole 15 to 20 minutes to do by myself. After it was pieced together (and "the boy" was down for his nap) I cut some little notches in the bottoms of the "branches" to allow for the clips on the bottom of the decoys. Finished up with a Camo-esque paint job to immitate tree bark. I have enough notches cut into the branches to place decoys anywhere on any branch and a motorized Mojo dove will slide right down into the top.
I guess we will see how well it works in a few weeks. Hopefully I will be able to report good thing come dove season. Now, if only I could shoot better...
Attached Files
Comment