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As we all look forward to the new year I wondered what people thought about developments to pigeon shooting? If some enterprising company could, in the future, come out with an affordable and portable system that would throw a hologram of pigeons dropping in to live pigeons on the ground we could throw away our deeks!!
DEFRA originally wanted anyone catching birds in a Larsen trap to kill them `out of sight of the captive bird` so that it wouldn`t be distressed. (I believe this has now been restricted to Canada geese only.) Imagine the implications if this had been widened to include all shooting. No more rights and lefts, and we would have to shoot birds singly, just in case a following bird witnessed the shot. Imagine waiting until only only rabbit showed itself before you could shoot. Without the BASC (et al) stupid laws such as this might be passed in the future and affect us all. Mad, but you never know!!
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My mum would often exclaim, "Jesusweptandwellhemight" All one word!!
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When my mum heard I played with it 7 days a week she said I would go blind. So I only played with it 4 days a week, and wore glasses.
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They also say that a dog is not just for Xmas. You might marry it!!
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I`ve tried CCI Subs but, having tried Eley Subs I`m sticking with them!!
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IRWF,
At last, a sensible post. I agree with every word mate, skill with a gun is learned, and the more you shoot, the more you learn. :thumbs:
Other posters seem to think that you only have this skill if you are either in the trade, a gunsmith, shooting coach, or a top clay shot. The secret is to be out there shooting, several times a week if possible and, as far as pigeon shooting is concerned, with enough land, and pigeons, to choose the times when it is right to set up your decoys, and when not to bother. I sometimes go out, walk the birds off, wait until I can see they won`t come back, then go to another farm. Where they don`t come back I set up before dawn, so that they are not spooked by a man walking onto the field, and stay in the hide and kill `em!! It works for me!!
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Went to Lourdes last year, looking for a miracle. They dipped me in the holy well and I came up with four new tyres!! It works!!!
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RRUK,
I was in shooting form when you were in liquid form!!
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I find the pigeons in my area are dropping into stunted rape, that was at first purple/pink, then yellow. This rape got away very well, when sown, but may have depleted the nitrogen with the first bolted growth, and is now starved of the stuff. Of the 8 fields they haven`t bothered with the 2 that are well grown.
I don`t get blank pigeon shooting days, RRUK. My last three outings have resulted in 29, 47 and 18. Plus 7 corvids. I`m out three or four times a week, so I have lots of time to study the birds, and place myself in the right fields, exactly where they are feeding, or flighting, to their feed.
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RRUK,
You could also do with a bren gun carrier to hump all that kit, including 300 cartridges, to the scene of your latest miracle!!
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I like to see a little bit of rib, when the gun is mounted, but I don`t really see the barrel when I`m actually shooting.
RRUK shoots really well with his head up his ****, so perhaps we`re all wrong??
Do you see the sphincter Rob??Edit: Missed the S off shoots!!
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It`s not true that lesbians don`t like males. Don`t forget it was a little boy who stuck his finger in the dyke!!
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If you know the flight lines you MAY be able to pull `em in on the clover.
You may have a very long wait. 
At least until the flocks have petered out and the birds are off the rape. I`ve taken people out in the past, given them the choice of field, and then pulled birds down from a flight line, that is well established, on the way to the chosen field, (often a field they aren`t feeding on!!)
I don`t envy your trip out edd, perhaps now you can let us know how you got on?? -
The word we`re all looking for is illiterate.
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Shawn the people who were killed weren`t putting lofters on wires.
Nor were the fishermen who took a shock through their carbon fibre rods!! If you think it can`t happen to you then laugh away. I just hope that when you are putting your lofters in the trees there aren`t high voltage wires hidden from view, or that you walk to a better tree and get closer to the wire cables than you thought. -
You may laugh Shawn but people have been killed in the past. You don`t have to touch overhead wires because the high voltage will arc onto the poles and fry you!!
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I use a SAK mod on both my .22 and .17HMR CZ Varmints.
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On a visit to Wigan Prince Charles wore a hat made from a fox, with the brush hanging down his back. The mayor asked him why he was wearing it and he said, "I told Mummy I was coming to Wigan and she said, wear the fox hat?"
Edit: I originally typed S****horpe but some of it was deleted. Try it, I`m not joking!!
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Did you hear that duck ****
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Catamong,
To tell you the truth mate, Rob the Gob just bores me!!
He will never succeed in winding me up because you can`t wind up a winder-upper!! -
I believe that the reverse is also true, and that prolonged clay shooting might affect my pigeon shooting!! :<
I`m interested in studying, attracting and killing pigeons, and other winged pests, and not playing games shooting at little discs, which are slowing down, on an almost predictable flight path.
I certainly don`t need a session on clays to improve my confidence, which has been gained in the field, in all weathers, taking every shot in the book, often from a cramped, cold and wet position. Edit: Insertion of smilies!!
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One farm I shoot has eight fields of OSR totalling around 300 acres. Whilst birds do favour areas they use as a background, most times of the year, they can be on any of the fields at any time. The large flock has split into several small flocks and at times you might as well try to nail jam to a wall!! Weather conditions are the key to decent bags and you just have to work at it.
Archie`s `power of the shot` doesn`t necessarily translate to today`s decoying, with very large blocks of OSR,easy all winter feeding, and gas guns in many of the fields. If the gas guns are working, and keeping birds off the rape, then so will the sound of shotguns.
Today I visited one farm that had plenty of pigeons on Saturday. There were a lots less birds on the most used field and they flew off, as I drove down the track to the barns. They were picked up by a huge flock going elsewhere and the place became a pigeon desert!! Such are the joys of our chosen sport.
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At least we know his epitaph won`t contain the name PRIOR!!
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markbivvy,
Do you mean I`ve put all this bloody work in and it might be illegal??? :< Spoilsport!!
Merry Xmas to you too.
Edit: First smilie didn`t work.