Maddaftspaniel Posted April 18, 2014 Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 Up here in Fife the drillings have been late due to wet weather so as luck would have it they have all been put in at once on the farms I shoot. The soil is now in such good condition that there is very little seed left on the surface so you really have to follow the drill because if you leave the birds to build up they clean up and are gone again. Went out yesterday on a fresh drilled field. Weather was bright and breezy. Birds were dropping in from a curved conifer wood on the west of the field to the cloddy bit where there is always seed left. Ideally should have set up with the wind at my back at the other side of the field but I knew from decoying this spot before the pigeons would not come over there so I set up on the edge of the wood with the wind coming from my left. I was travelling light with only half a dozen flocked shell decoys and amazingly as soon as I had sat down a bird came straight in and folded to my first shot. Game on. As usual life was not to be as simple as that . For the rest of the day the birds came and sat in the trees behind me and then dropped down towards the decoys flipping into the wind at the last minute to land. I found them difficult to hit like that and discovered they were flaring away at the last minute because my lab was anticipating the shot by stepping outside the hide every time I raised the gun! Hit a couple of memorable high overheads that gave the dog good retrieves from well back in the wood but lost two outliers to a pair of buzzards! Ended the day with 28 for 76 shots. Would post a pic if I knew how to reduce it in size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted April 18, 2014 Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 A good report. Those high shots do make your day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 18, 2014 Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 Well done. Read the sticky at the top of the sporting pics section on how to post using photobucket it will resize pics automatically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted April 18, 2014 Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 Good outing, and nice write up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 18, 2014 Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 Good ooting Andy. Plenty of birds on the new stuff here too but they have way too much choice and are well spread oot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddaftspaniel Posted April 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2014 Good ooting Andy. Plenty of birds on the new stuff here too but they have way too much choice and are well spread oot. Dave it is the same here. There are some big flocks but they just flit from one field to another and clean up pretty quickly. I only got lucky yesterday because that particular field has cloddy bit in it where there is a lot of exposed seed and they wanted to be there. A lot of the other fields have hardly a seed showing. I had a go in another place on Tuesday and only shot 6 before they did a bunk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Continental Shooter Posted April 19, 2014 Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Good to see there's life in Fife, i might have to call the guides for a decent day! Went down to the border on one of my permission after the farmer called and there must have been over 400 hitting clove and with so many fields available, i only managed 1!! Gotta wait till they sawn before something'll happen on my ground!! Well done!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddaftspaniel Posted April 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2014 Good to see there's life in Fife, i might have to call the guides for a decent day! Went down to the border on one of my permission after the farmer called and there must have been over 400 hitting clove and with so many fields available, i only managed 1!! Gotta wait till they sawn before something'll happen on my ground!! Well done!! I didn't mention I had another two attempts this week resulting in a 2 and a 6! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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