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  4. Safety Catch

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    I`ve had two mates killed with shotguns. One was pulling a loaded hammer gun, barrels first, from the back of a van. The other was only 17, and was one side of a narrow hedge, when a pheasant flew through a gap and his mate shot at it and hit him in the chest. Friends said there was a load of coagulated blood, like liver, on the ground. The gun was a .410!!

     

    Another friend was shooting pigeons in Cambs when the farmer, who didn`t know he had turned up, and was rabbit shooting, saw a movement and shot at what he thought was a rabbit and peppered my friend. He still has pellets in his elbow and actually took one in his family jewels!!

  6. Safety Catch

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    Anyone know of a RIFLE with an auto safety??

     

    Takes me back to when I was a Weapon Training Instructor:

     

    "I did not know the gun was loaded, he was my best friend"

     

    I have always been used to auto safeties but both of my shotguns are non-auto. I made sure the second one I bought also had a non-auto safety to preclude the possibility of confusion. Putting the safety back on, before you break the gun to reload, soon becomes second nature.

     

    Both of my rimfires are CZs with the safety pushed FORWARD for safe and I`m used to that. It`s surprising how little time it takes to familiarise yourself with these things. Have you ever been out with a hammer gun then tried to pull the hammers back on your hammerless the next time you use it? Push button safeties near the trigger guard are another acquired skill, and so it goes on.

     

    My brother had a single barrel 12 which folded by pulling a trigger outside the trigger guard. He once pulled the real trigger by mistake and whacked a hole in the bank about ten feet to one side of me.

  7. Shotless day

    in Talk From The Field

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    I usually go out after 9`o clock, but have found that sometimes I only have to draw up into a gateway, and they`re off into the next county!! When that happens I am there at dawn the next day, stay in the hide all the time, not showing myself or shooting at larger groups and they will take it, for a few hours, at least.

     

    With gas guns in some of the fields I am finding that, as long as my shot doesn`t coincide with my appearance outside the hide, they keep coming in until 2pm (ish)

    Of course it helps if you can set up, on a flightline, close to a pigeon background where they will be heading for a rest during the day.

  13. Wax Jacket?

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    I got 20 years use from my Border jacket, and in all that time I reproofed it, once a year, from the Barbour tin that came with the jacket. Sent it back once to have a new zip fitted - £20, including postage. Hopefully I`ve got another 20 years with the Northumbria. Talk about low maintenance!!!

  17. Eezzy wobbler rods for shells

    in Pigeon Decoying Equipment

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    I`ve been using them for a few weeks now and they do wobble well, especially if set with the wind just to one side. I believe they could be improved if the groove that runs up the shank went right to the first bend, as I bent mine when pushing them into the ground. That last piece of flat metal is a weak spot.

     

    I was recently shooting on the brow of a slope and went down the field to get a pigeon, that dropped well down the field. As I approached my deeks, with the sun at my back, I noticed the sticks were winking in the sun like fairy lights. This might put birds off if they approached, or passed, lower down the slope, so I matt blacked `em.

     

    On the same day I found that I had lost one of the sticks in the rape, went back a day or so later and couldn`t find it. Two days ago I went back to the field and, just as I was giving up, there it was. A bit rusty but now back in my bag!! One of life`s little victories.

  18. Pigeon foreplay

    in Talk From The Field

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    A few days ago I heard one of my `garden` wood pigeons cooing and thought about the warm spring days to come. I heard one again today and saw two pigeons billing and cooing on a nearby TV aerial. After a short session standing very close, pecking and canoodling, the female(?) dropped her body, fanned her tail, and dad hopped on and did the business. Nice to know they are feeling the joys of spring already!!

  19. Freezing birds for decoys

    in Pigeon Shooting Tips

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    I agree with Cranfield. Keep replenishing your birds with freshly frozen ones as you will notice that birds get a darker plumage the more you use them. Just compare a freshly shot bird with one of your frozzies and you`ll notice the difference in colour.

     

    Be picky and use the immaculate birds, with few feathers out of place, and preferably not those with dislocated necks, from the coup-de-grace. Remember also to defrost them in good time, or you will find difficulty getting the spike of the rotary, or flapper, up the gearbox and through the body!!

  20. frustrating

    in Talk From The Field

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    Welcome to pigeon ping-pong!!

     

    It`s muntjac or muntjak - one word.

     

    The unnecessary capital letters would be funny, if you didn`t know the real threat we face from outer space!! We sometimes see forum posts and mobile phone texts with every word in capitals. Occasionally people put a dot over a capital I. Text language is gobbledegook. This is all being organised to subvert the English language.

     

    Recent top secret government documents have revealed that Planet Cranfield is the base for this interference in our language. The Federation for the Development of Random Capitals, (FDRC) is the mastermind. Now if you take these letters away from the word Cranfield you get an anagram of the word ALIEN!!!

     

    :thumbs: BEWARE!! THEY ARE AMONG US!!! :thumbs:

  22. Which decoys?

    in Pigeon Shooting Tips

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    CHARLY,

     

    Try using shells AND dead birds on cradles. I do, and often get birds landing amongst the plazzy deeks. On rape, at this time of year it`s best to have lots of deeks in your spread, plus you can always bring in the plazzies if they don`t seem to work. If you use flocked deeks they are less likely to shine. I put my shells nearest to the hide, where they can clearly be seen, but just away from where birds try to land. They are less likely to be spooked this way.

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