popa bear Posted November 26, 2014 Report Share Posted November 26, 2014 Them woodies certainly like the old maize crop out doin a reccy saturday talking to an old game keeper and I could see the woodies flying about two fields over the old boy said there was a maize maze that had just been chopped down and he reckoned there was in excess of 1,000 birds on it.Just by Warwick services on the M40 there are some captive pheasants in a patch of uncut maize and there was a lot of woodies dropping in there with them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted November 26, 2014 Report Share Posted November 26, 2014 Very good bags can be made off chopped maize game strips and maze's etc. Unfortunately the situation usually involves getting permission off a gamekeeper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popa bear Posted November 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 yes it was torturous all those birds and just off my perms and none coming my way gutted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pboro shot Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Once the seasons finished not useally a problem but i useally get it cut and ploughed fairy quick as the rats soon move in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside1000 Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Just up the road from my place every summer they grow a maize maze for the tourists, about 15 acres, then end of the season they chop it and plough it in, the pigeons queue up for a share, its a wonder the power lines dont break the number that sit up there , problem is its un shootable, next to allotments, a garage and a main road. still it fattens them up for when they fly over to my permission., Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuy Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 Them woodies certainly like the old maize crop out doin a reccy saturday talking to an old game keeper and I could see the woodies flying about two fields over the old boy said there was a maize maze that had just been chopped down and he reckoned there was in excess of 1,000 birds on it.Just by Warwick services on the M40 there are some captive pheasants in a patch of uncut maize and there was a lot of woodies dropping in there with them I shot few years ago on a maize maze, the same it had been flailed and was just on the outskirts of cardiff, I shot well over a hundred. And they were the best looking woodpigeon I have ever shot being super fat and all were large, they had been on the maize for a long while Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simjakcal Posted November 27, 2014 Report Share Posted November 27, 2014 no pigeons on our maize cover crops ,,,, but the crows are hitting them hard ! on one cover crop where its still standing they have completely striped it ! and now they've moved onto another....sunday morning is planned to hit them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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