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Do they work?

Just saw the Mojo Voodoo and wondered.

JC

Yes, they work very well, up here at least. With the dove numbers you guys have in SA, you might need a hundred of them to be noticed...Geo

JC, as Geo. said, they can work wonders. But, they can also, for no apparent reason, be completely ignored. I have used one since the first model they introduced. They are in their third generation now.

They seem to work the best if you are the only one in the field that has one. The guys I shoot regularly with all have at least one, some of them two. In a field like that, where there are a bunch of them set up, there is often no notice given them by the birds. But, where they really shine, IMO, is when you go solo to a feeding area. I shoot peanut fields a lot this time of year, and sometimes alone. I will probably be in one this afternoon. Here is what I will do with mine. (Generation 2 Mojo dove and some stationary dekes))



That is a center pivot irrigation system. Doves love to light on them before feeding. I can actually set up in the middle of a 100 acre field and draw doves entering the field from all sides. At times it is absolutely amazing. I have seen them coming to the field at 600 yards or more, then all of a sudden make an abrupt turn and take a bee-line straight to the Mojo and light right beside it.

SRH

I use a mojo and as Stan observed, they work, but not all the time. It has to be in spot that they would land in anyway. In other words, it's a waste of time in a grassy field where they can't land and feed. As sold with the short stake, they are flat out hazardous because dove come in low and slow and you are at the mercy of low shooters of which my group is not. I have two sections of 6' anodized aluminum tubes that get it up 12' which helps a lot.
One dove field owner doesn't allow them. Stan's pivot irrigation tube gets it up plenty high.

One field I hunt, to be a little different, I carved these two decoys out of tupelo. One is a sleeper. I use them on a field that has a fake powerline running down the middle. I tie mono to the eyelet on the tail, and toss it over the line and it "hooks" on the line with the wire bracket. I tie it off to a stake. Only one is needed and it has been a magnet on this particular field. Some folks use them on live powerlines, but not me, Kemo Sabe.

Yes and very well. I have the pole and place three on it. I have a Mojo and two of the new "flapper" decoys. I put around eight on the ground.
The pole really brings them in.

Next year I want to try another trick--about a dozen 1.5 litre plastic soft drink bottles spray painted with grey primer and scattered on a field.

I went to a big pay shoot and got one pellet in arm as doves kept swooping down low at my MO Jo decoy!Worked too well that time.Sometimes doves will ignore them. Bobby

I laughed the first time my lazy buddy pulled one out, but it does work. I now have a couple, but prefer to use a Wing Thing because it is easier to pack and seems less fragile, more reliable. Also cheaper.

Thank you all, interesting feedback.

For around USD60.- I can get a set up like Stan's from Amazon. Not that large an
investment to see how it works.

And just for the record, doves this side of the Andes have no relation whatsoever
with the quantities found on the other side.

JC

P.S.: there is an apparently older version for a lot less.jc

JC, whatever version of the spinner you buy I think you'll find that it works wonders. Replacement suggested the "Wing Thing"; as for myself, I use a small Green Wing Teal MOJO that runs on flashlight batteries. It works just fine in a duck swamp and in a dove field. The flashing motion is what tolls the birds in...Geo