number 1 Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 hey just wondering if the barley has started to go flat where you are ? on the land i hunt it has not started yet so how about your land? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 None that I've seen yet, but looking at the weather forcast, it's likely soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 We don,t have much barley in our area, but everything else is too green to lay down yet. I saw the first rape fields being "turned" today, so it won,t be long before they start harvesting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead-eye-dick Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 8) Good i'm aching to have a good day's sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number 1 Posted July 2, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 same here the peas is beginging to be a up hill struggle but my new lander and floater mite change that. (see vale pigeon decoying in new pigeon shooting gear) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead-eye-dick Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 When I first read your post I thought you said "ladder and floater".........and was about to say about the safety aspect of shooting from a pair of step ladders... I suppose you would have trouble creating a hide to cover the ladder :( :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazza Posted July 2, 2002 Report Share Posted July 2, 2002 The patches are starting to appear in the barley around here.............won't be long now!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin15 Posted July 5, 2002 Report Share Posted July 5, 2002 Theres a fair bit of barley round my way ( Herts ) but have only found one large patch which had been been laid in the middle of field. I took two peckers 1/2, a dozen shell decoys, gun and 200 cartridges, set out decoys and Knelt in a tram line no hide but i did wear a head net. Three hours later picked up 39 birds had shot 150 cartridges must have left as many birds in the barley i would have stayed longer but my knees were killing me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 5, 2002 Report Share Posted July 5, 2002 Sounds like a seriously good day kevin. You ought to put a report in the area report section on the homepage. When I have to shoot in a field of laid cereal, I enter by the tractorlines (like you), I take a couple of cut open sacks and some bamboo canes. By setting up near some standing wheat and using the sacks I can make a reasonable hide. I then kneel or sit alternatively on an old chair cushion. There are a couple of the new camouflage designs out now that could blend nicely with laid cereal, they only have to be light coloured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 5, 2002 Report Share Posted July 5, 2002 kevin 15, just in case you ( or anyone ) don,t know how to submit a report.... Go to homepage, click on Pigeon Watch, click on bird nearest your area, scroll past reports to the bottom of the page and fill the form in. You may already know all this, but I didn,t and had to ask before I could submit my first report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
number 1 Posted July 8, 2002 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2002 thats does sound a good day kevin!!!! on saterday when driving round (my dad took me to the laid barley hes seen he works the farm so he nos where it is )and it has started to go down there and there was a few birds dropping in but nothing specil +it was only very small patechs like 5m sq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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