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If you think about it I suppose the best piece of pigeon decoying equipment is your brain! Too many people set up and hope for the best when they should be thinking about the situation,and minimising the variables, while using fieldcraft to put themselves in an advantageous position.
I would also be lost without my binoculars. They tell me where the birds are, where they are coming from and going to, where the sitty trees are, which direction the birds use to land, etc. etc. I would rather be without my plush seat than my binos.
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Despite a very active sex life, I've never had a dose!
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Like all wildlife, pigeons learn from any out of the ordinary occurences. I believe they are gradually learning about magic roundabouts, and when to avoid them. I once read that the first recorded sighting of a great ***, pecking the foil top of a milk bottle, was somewhere in the south of the country and, within ten years, was copied by other tits much farther north. Might be an urban myth, but quite plausible.
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This skip was only three doors away, so it was just asking to be pillaged. Pigeon shooters are well known as gadget freaks and make-do-and-mend misers. I rarely use my magic roundabout, and only occasionally use a flapper. Most of the time I start with 10 dead birds, plus plenty of field craft, and regular reconnaissance.
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Lurcherboy,
This took place a long time ago, and he never was my choice of shooting partner. He got a job on a large local estate, in forestry, and is still there. He beats for the shoot, but I don't think he shoots these days. Probably because there are no Soay sheep on the estate!!
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Some years ago, a friend rushed in to tell me he had just shot a deer. I heard about the difficult stalk, along a ditch, in the snow, the shot, (12 bore!!) and the fact that he had sent the antlers to a taxidermist, for mounting. It turned out he had shot a Soay sheep!!!! As a final balls up the taxidermist had mounted the horns (antlers??) upside down!! This same bloke called young hares levericks and slices of bacon were rations, not rashers.
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I wouldn't be without my freebie 25 litre drum, plus high density foam cushion! Took the foam from two large sofa cushions I found on a skip. I have enough for another three hide cushions, and use some as a rest, when zeroing in my rifles. Let's hear it for recycling!!!
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Frank,
Do you mean fired or unfired rounds? Mine ejects the cases of fired rounds perfectly, but refuses to extract an unfired round.
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The belief is that woodies don't like getting their feet balled up with mud, not just wet.
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I was told that my particular problem wouldn't occur with Winchester rounds. Tried in my local gunshop and same problem. I was also told the same thing had happened with an Anschutz .22 rifle.
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The problem I have with my .22 CZ Varmint is extraction of the unfired round. I was advised on a US site not to use CCI ammo, but the Eley Subs I now use cause the same problem. Edgar Bros advised using fine emery at the start of the rifling, because there might be a burr!!
The US site said I was better with the bullet engaged with the rifling as it may add to the accuracy, and to fire any round left in the rifle into a safe backstop, before leaving the field. These days, as I get to the end of the outing, I tend to push the bolt forward whilst carrying the rifle, only closing the bolt when I am ready to take a shot. I was loath to send the rifle back to Edgar Bros because the emery work put me off, plus I heard about this problem being difficult to put right and, in one case, another rifle was despatched, thus requiring FAC variation. In every other way my .22 CZ Varmint is very accurate and I don't have any problems with my CZ Varmint in .17HMR.
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There is no such thing as a quad bike!
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Some of my barley has already gone, and some of the OSR is windrowed.
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Using a flapper without a random timer may spook the pigeons because, as they get close in, they think it is a bird taking off, rather than landing.
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Just to even it up a bit, I use Eley HB Pigeon, 32g, 6.5s. Works for me.
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What's the difference between PMT and BSE?
One is mad cow disease and the other is an agricultural problem.
One man is being given a **** job, by an 80 year old woman, and the other is walking a tightrope, stretched 80 feet above the ground. They are both thinking the same thing.
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DON'T LOOK DOWN!!!!
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Check Sporting Shooter (page 6)..... 'The police officer who went to view the cage was very upset by what she saw. She released the birds and broke the cage up'
A policewoman destroys a (perfectly legal) Larsen trap. (Sussex Express)
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Bought a thousand last week at £123.50.
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If you don't know how to dispatch your quarry quickly, and efficiently, might I suggest you practice on ones that are already dead?
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Another convert?
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Better to be a head lifter than a shirt lifter!
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I'll second that. A well cared for secondhand gun is worth the money, and won't lose much if you sell. I've just sold my Bettinsoli for the same price I paid for it!!
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You lads aren't switched on are you? It was just a play on words. Lead - the amount you are in front. Lead - the metal. I did mean the amount of lead in the cartridge, AS A JOKE!!!
Best piece of decoying equipment.
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