As our van turned onto a skinny dirt road between two soybean fields on the first of a five-day dove hunting trip in Córdoba, Argentina, I honestly had no idea what to expect.

One by one we were called to get off and were met by a guy dressed in camo. When my time came, I joined my “bird boy,” Eric Emilio Feminia, who took me to a nicely done, makeshift blind, constructed of sticks and vines to hide us as the birds approached.