JDog Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 I was pretty excited about shooting today. The sky was partly cloudy and the wind was strong and the omens looked good. Eighty miles later I called it a day without setting up once. There were just too many stubbles for the pigeons to choose from. There were a few in every field but no strong lines anywhere. The only good part was finding one of my farmers cutting the first of his fields of beans on what is normally a productive line. Roll on next weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 (edited) Same here Jdog. Recc'd a field of wheat stubble yesterday afternoon and there were a good amount of pigeons on it. Some nice strong flightlines. Unfortunately, the lads were hooning around with the JCB loading roundalls onto the trailers. Skilled job that So.like you, full of anticipation for what should have been a good day, I headed off there today. Hardly a bird to be seen, no flightlines.....nothing. Used a few hours walking the dog round the rest of the farm in the hopes the tap would be turned on, but it didn't happen. Came home and sulked Edited August 23, 2014 by turbo33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Very much the same here JDog, infact despite having plenty of stubbles to choose from the pigeons are also feeding on grassland too, my first shot birds last weekend had grassland seeds in there crops along with wheat and barley and one bird had a slug down it's throat! The strange thing is we have a small barley stubble that is literally litered with barley heads and even a patch of laid crop which the combine missed, no pigeons here say's it all really! I will be out looking tommorow but i reckon my conclusion will be the same as yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenholland Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 same here Worcester area most fields cut a few about not worth setting up this time last year was great just keep doing my rounds kenbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stugarford Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Started the beans on Thursday here Jdog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 Similar to my findings JDog, Motty and myself were shooting on bean stubble today , I am sure he will put a report on sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 nothing solid about today..........we had some rain on the OSR today and it looks as if it might decied to come up in 5-7 days, and as there is nothing else like it nearby we "might" be on to a winner for a change......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 We saw lots of birds heading for standing beans over the past two days. No ambush points and not able to shoot standing crops due to seed drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted August 23, 2014 Report Share Posted August 23, 2014 We saw lots of birds heading for standing beans over the past two days. No ambush points and not able to shoot standing crops due to seed drop. Your "beans" are they what we call around here Tic beans......black squarish round about the size of a pea ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddaftspaniel Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Harvest is about 75% complete up here and very few fields are ploughed so there are loads of stubbles for the birds to chose from and they aren't concentrating on any of my ground. Here today....................gone tomorrow. They will start concentrating on certain stubbles once the plough gets going Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 i have 50 acres of beans cut,and the pigeons are not about well not in big numbers,there out bailing now . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocknee Posted August 24, 2014 Report Share Posted August 24, 2014 Same here JDog and to cap it all I have two pens of pheasants with hexamita so I haven't really time to look for pigeons at moment let alone shoot them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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