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Been watching the beans , started cutting yesterday and saw 2 hides in 1 field today, not been 14 hrs since harvested they shot 13 birds all day, spoke to the farmer he's not cultivating the fields till end of next week. I dont understand some people who dont just leave a field to reach its full potential (there were stubbles with plenty on them).

its been 6 wks since my hand surgery and it's time I rekon to do some shooting!

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I think a lot of people jump the gun with stubble, especially bean stubble, there is always plenty of beans spilt during the harvesting process, walk the field and look at the spillage, watch the pigeons everyday and wait untill you think it's at full potential, walk the field again check it's still got food there then kill! slowly slowly catchy monkey. Of course check with the farmer that the land isn't going to go under the plough if it is you may have to shoot it earlier than you would want if the farmer not going to do anything with it for a while tho what's the rush?

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I think a lot of people jump the gun with stubble, especially bean stubble, there is always plenty of beans spilt during the harvesting process, walk the field and look at the spillage, watch the pigeons everyday and wait untill you think it's at full potential, walk the field again check it's still got food there then kill! slowly slowly catchy monkey. Of course check with the farmer that the land isn't going to go under the plough if it is you may have to shoot it earlier than you would want if the farmer not going to do anything with it for a while tho what's the rush?

+1 my thoughts exactly, I will take it easy guys promise!
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Stubble fields can vary tremendously.

I tend to get on them as soon as possible, before the pigeons eat all the spillage, or the tractor arrives.

I've been out again today, with no joy at all, the bean stubble has beans all over it that the combine dropped, birds in the air all over, not a shot to be had.

 

Moved to volunteer rape, where I've noted activity from the house, a blank again.

 

I've changed nothing in regards to the hides I make, and have been very successful in the past years.

 

This year has completely baffled me, I've never known such dire shooting in the midlands.

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I think a lot of people jump the gun with stubble, especially bean stubble, there is always plenty of beans spilt during the harvesting process, walk the field and look at the spillage, watch the pigeons everyday and wait untill you think it's at full potential, walk the field again check it's still got food there then kill! slowly slowly catchy monkey. Of course check with the farmer that the land isn't going to go under the plough if it is you may have to shoot it earlier than you would want if the farmer not going to do anything with it for a while tho what's the rush?

 

I envy anyone who gets that amount of time, you are very lucky.

In my area 72 hours is about the maximum before the field gets cultivated.

Sometimes its still worth a visit after the first visit of the cultivator, but usually the birds have moved on.

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I envy anyone who gets that amount of time, you are very lucky.

In my area 72 hours is about the maximum before the field gets cultivated.

Sometimes its still worth a visit after the first visit of the cultivator, but usually the birds have moved on.

Still got all my stubble on a 1000 acre permission apart from about 50 acres that's been cultivated, I am lucky I know, got a big estate over boundry that ploughs as soon as cut. Beans not even combined yet! Will be weekend I think so will be ago the following weekend I hope. Was ment to cut them Monday but for some reason he hasn't, think will lose several acres of stubble next week though as the winter corn will be going in.

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