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I am hoping that it is not only myself that this happens to.

 

I was out crow shooting over decoys on the edge of a farm yard on Sunday. Good start and end to the day with 60 accounted for.

 

Now the annoying bit..no crows for 20-30 minutes until I decide it is time for a sandwich. Gun down, sandwich out..crow in the pattern which by the time the sandwich and gun are swapped it has flown off. This seems to happen time and time again. Rather then using a caller I could just try and eat things.

 

I appreciate that if you are shooting birds constantly and accounting for big bags this is inevitable. With me I am sure they sit and wait just to cause me annoyance.

 

Does anybody else have this happen to them?

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when theres 2 of us in the hide we take it in turns to eat cos of same problem,that way we get the sneaky ones too.

Good thinking...but I would need friends to do this.

 

When I take my father in law out he tends to fall asleep. A nice loud bang from the 12 bore tends to bring him back round though. :)

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I am hoping that it is not only myself that this happens to.

 

I was out crow shooting over decoys on the edge of a farm yard on Sunday. Good start and end to the day with 60 accounted for.

 

Now the annoying bit..no crows for 20-30 minutes until I decide it is time for a sandwich. Gun down, sandwich out..crow in the pattern which by the time the sandwich and gun are swapped it has flown off. This seems to happen time and time again. Rather then using a caller I could just try and eat things.

 

I appreciate that if you are shooting birds constantly and accounting for big bags this is inevitable. With me I am sure they sit and wait just to cause me annoyance.

 

Does anybody else have this happen to them?

 

I thought that was the norm when shooting from a hide, isn't it supposed to happen!!
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The Italian clients I used to take out for a day’s decoying had a strange idea, leave the hide and go to a pre-arranged spot with a table laid out with the finest fair, so good you’d think you were in a high class Delicatessen in London!! And whilst they tucked into the food and the wine flowed, the pigeon would be piling into the decoys, with me trying to explain in ‘pigeon’ English as to why we were there. I soon learnt that the food and the break was an integral part of their day and the fact that on many days they could have shot a further 50 birds did not worry them a fig! Oh, to be so relaxed!

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The way some clients shot, a blind man with no fingers could have done better! After all the work finding the birds,then setting up and making sure the birds played ball you can imagine my despair when the hide is left alone, but, it was their day and they wanted to eat. Every client was different, and each had their own funny ways but the guy with a flintlock took some beating, I leave it to your imagination what the hedge looked like from a distance, but he did hit a few.

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