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  11. A Murder of Magpies

    in Other Pest Control

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    Quality thread this, murder and charm of magpies! Excellent! I am having a wrestle with a murder of magpies at the moment and they are smart cookies! Certainly don't decoy as easy as the crows and rooks! To be honest I think I can here them laughing at me every Sunday now!

  15. Decoy set up using a flapper??

    in Pigeon Decoying Equipment

    Posted · Edited by scottk

    Sorry to hijack the thread slightly but I normally use 2 bunches of decoys with a gap in the middle for the pigeons to land and worked pretty well in the past. Just invested in 2 bouncers and a1 decoys air pro decoys to go on there ( spinning wing design) and a mororised pecking pigeon, where would people suggest to put the bouncers in that pattern type? Or alternatively do I need to switch to a horseshoe and where would there be best placed?

     

    Unfortunately no rape for me normally savoys, cabbage, peas, potatoes, barley are the main crops.

     

    Thanks

     

    Scott

  18. Range finders ?

    in Airgunners

    Posted · Edited by scottk

     

     

    I have a leupold and its brilliant wouldn't go shooting without it, only problem I think is they make you lazy, surely one of the essential field craft skills is gauging the distance. If you use it to confirm your judgement it can be a good tool to teach you good measurement skills, but its easy to slip into just range finding everything. Like I said I think there brilliant but you can end up depending on them.

  21. Leupold vx3 6.5-20x50mm varmint reticle

    in Guns & Equipment

    Posted · Edited by scottk

    Thanks for the advice catweasle, would be nice to pick one up second hand that's for sure just don't seem to come up that often, I see your point about the long eye relief and the nv.

     

    Dekers, I've owned dozens of scope and fancied jumping up a level, just because it has a 30mm tube and 50 objective does to mean that it will perform, I have seen lots of differences between scopes and have many with 25mil better than 30, I guess it's all about glass quality. I have found in my experience some of the cheaper less coated lense scopes perform better than higher quality particularly with nv. Hence the question before jumping into a big purchase as I have neve sat an nv on a quality scope.

     

    Thanks

     

    Scott

  22. Leupold vx3 6.5-20x50mm varmint reticle

    in Guns & Equipment

    Posted

    Looking at purchasing the above scope, for air and possible rimfire/hmr work in the future, what doe everybody think to them for this work? Also are they any good with nv set ups?

     

    I have owned Lepus before but nothing at this level and the customer service is excellent, but hearing mixed reports about low light level and nv work.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    Scott

  24. Hide placement near motorways

    in Pigeon Shooting Tips

    Posted · Edited by scottk

    ok guys got a pic of 1 block of the land see what peoples views are for hide placement if at all possible.. The motorway banking is very high at the top left corner all down to the top middle then it goes flat. There a road running through the middle, light use, 2nd access for houses off picture to the right. Left bottom left you can see a golf course. All the farm building are just empty storage, no residents in any of the properties.

     

    I was thinking best place would be on edge of woods on the right, shooting right to left accross to the two individual trees in the middle of the land. flight lines are birds come over the trees on the right paralell with the motorway and the small road into the 3 fields at the top of the picture. or near the two trees centre shooting right to left.

     

    My view would be the long thin field at the botom is unshootable due to road on 1 side golf course on other.

     

    PS. Ill be using 7.5s and shooting close.

     

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  25. Hide placement near motorways

    in Pigeon Shooting Tips

    Posted · Edited by scottk

    As has been said, noise is not an issue.

    I shoot quite a few fields with my back to a motorway bank, thats between 15 and 60 ft high (sloping away from the field, some wooded , some just grass).

    As the birds I am shooting are landing in to decoys 20+ yards in front of me, they fall dead on the field, or fly away unscathed.

    Shot crossing birds fall in to the field and it would only be straight overhead birds that could fall on the road.

    I can't remember any of those being an issue.

     

    It would be a good idea to take an experienced shot with you to get an on site opinion, before giving up on the location.

     

    Very good advice thanks mate, will do, it does seem a shame to waste it, experience key here no doubt

     

    After watching the field for a while I have noticed the pigeons come in to the field parallel to the motor way, so they would be coming in from my left to right with motorway and banking to my back.

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