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Frustrating Day with a Silver Lining


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Afternoon all,

It's a few months since I was last out on the pigeons, with being busy on the farm and also a general lack of woodies and flight lines I haven't done much decoying this year. With my job list about upto date I decided I was going out for a session on Sunday regardless, I headed down to our arable fields and have to say it was a similar story of empty skies!

We have drilled our winter Kale crops for the sheep and the crop was getting a few feathered visitors underneath a reliable and very old flightline, I took the plunge and decided to go for it.

What I have so far failed to mention is the company on Sunday's outing, Finn my three year old lab has been coming on great and has done a fair bit of picking up last season and on the peg but as yet nothing in the hide. The wife convinced me to stop worrying and take the dog along so off we trundled.

 

I set up around 10am and picked a bad spot, bothered by flies and too far away from the flightline, we stuck it out for an hour then I moved to a better position, the birds kept on coming on the flightline but were incredibly high and showing limited interest in the decoys and the kale, We had a few decoy in and i missed the first few sitters through snatching / rushing the shots. Ended up with a total of four woodies. I was frustrated as being rusty I couldn't hit a cows **** with a banjo, sometimes though i guess we have a bad day.

 

The silver lining and to be honest the best part of the outing was Finn, he sat next to me without stirring, picked the birds when asked and I was beaming with him, couldn't express enough how chuffed i was with him. I will be back out this weekend with a few flappers etc and try to set a better pattern to give him some more work, i'm sure at one point he even looked at me in disgust as i missed one on the end of the barrels!!

 

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Thanks Chaps, the labs my first gundog that I have trained myself and had from a pup so really chuffed with him. The woodies however seem to be a lost cause up here, so much food around with harvest being late / staggered, drilled forage crops and a ton of berries appearing in the trees and hedges.

 

Any tips on pulling them in from the flightline other than movement? I don't have a magnet and cant really justify the expense of one for the limited amount of pigeon shooting I do..?

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