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Are farmers keen for you to shoot over standing crops ?


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hi everyone just a quick one.

 

whilst driving around i have noticed a few fields of standing wheat and barley that are starting to get hit hard by the pigeons, i have watched 2 fields for the last 2 days that have had a large amount of pigeons feeding on the standing crop, both fields have no flat patches but that doesn't seem to bother the pigeons, both fields have big oak trees that the pigeons seem to be sitting in inbetween feeding witch is how i will shoot them (lofting poles in tree then shoot as they land in tree)

 

i have done a little research and have managed to find out who owns the fields but i have never asked a farmer about this type of shooting because its seems to be a bit of a touchy subject amongst pigeons shooters/farmers

 

are they usually very keen for you to shoot them or are they very wary of letting someone they dont know shoot standing crops ?

 

any advice would be great

 

 

 

 

 

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I do not agree with shooting pigeon into standing crops where they cannot be picked .

That said I can understand where some are under pressure to do so should they be asked by a farmer whos land they shoot .

 

In this case as you do not shoot the land already I cannot see why you should want to do that .

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I do not agree with shooting pigeon into standing crops where they cannot be picked .

That said I can understand where some are under pressure to do so should they be asked by a farmer whos land they shoot .

 

In this case as you do not shoot the land already I cannot see why you should want to do that .

Hi fenboy, in the fields mentioned picking birds would be easy as There is a good 10ft gap from the edge of the canopy of the oak trees where the wheat has not grown, and I would only be shooting pigeons as they come to land in the tree,

 

I'm no keen on leaving perfectly good meat in the middle of a field.

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Your judgement call. If you are very selective on shot then you should be able to pick most while causing less damage than the pigeons will do if you leave them. Problem is if you do shoot them at close range they are not much use for human consumption. There has been several threads on this recently and many do not agree with shooting pigeons if they can not be retrieved. I think you need to consider how much crop damage they are doing. If its a small number, leave them be but if they are hitting one field in large numbers they need controlling, and then that is your primary aim of shooting them.

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