Did you ever decide to go all the way over the top. One year I saved 20 or so late season doves and stored them in the freezer. That set the feathers a little extra. Then I skinned them one by one and mounted them on a old tv antenna I salvaged. Ended up with ten stuffers mounted on that antenna that I would put up a rig 30' in the dove field. It was a true dove magnet. Space was left open to allow real birds to land and rest. Sometimes there were almost as many live birds as stuffed one on that rig. The mounted birds only lasted a couple years but while I had them it was great. Truth is that I enjoyed the off season work as much as the in season work.