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I had a friendly pheasant when fishing it liked the look of the pellets on the bait tray I chucked some on the ground and it picked away at it for 5 mins

Bit of a faff that and pointless

Sounds pretty much like the winter's we are getting hardly anything I gave up looking start of Feb fed up of driving for hrs and not even setting up been fishing instead cracking bag well done I love the unexpected ones when they come along that is

Where magnets around in the 70s and 80s ? Obviously manual flappers were first time I saw a rotary was about 1998 and that was a home made one I started shooting in the mid 80s never heard about them or saw one

Sounds like it was one of those days where they just don't want to commit no matter what you do with or without gadgets I've had countless days like that, the magnet has got me shooting when they won't decoy even it only brings them on the edge of range for a shot I would have had next to nothing without it 20 or 30 on a difficult day is better than nothing

Always spooks them 🤔 I've never found a rotary to spook pigeons all the time

Sounds like a good trip to me i was up in perth last week of November and had a couple of goose and duck flights last time I shot geese in Scotland was over 30 years i wished i had gone more in that time I'll be back next season without a doubt

I grew up rough shooting it used to be a weekly thing In season and some of the bags we got were so varied at times pheasant partridge duck woodcock pigeon a wish I could of took some pics of them but didn't have mobile phones 35 years ago only over the last 15 years or so I started taking bag pics first on a digital camera then phone camera I remember one day 3 of us had our own DIY shoot had a walk round it was blowing a gale and cold we had partridge duck and pheasant in the bag then came across a pigeon flightline going into a small wood so we headed to it and spent rest of the afternoon in the wood 2 small flight ponds in it the pigeons kept coming ended up with 65 then the teal and mallard came into the ponds so bagged more duck I can't remember a better day than that or what the final head of game and wildfowl was but it was very good it was about 1998 I think

Yep they would of run a check on your reg as they were sat behind you so once you said your name and address it matched with the info they already had on you so no need to go any further, if it was America they would of shouted get out the car with 9mm glocks pointed at you

Well done and don't mention it, but can you send them back up this way thanks 👍

Went out looking for pigeons initially met up with the old fella on a block of land with a couple of rape fields on it nothing touching the rape which is weird in this cold spell and hardly any acorns around this area so we ended up having a walk round the ditch sides and some rough cover i recently bought a 20g and hadn't shot any game or pigeons with it only clays to get used to the gun turned out to be a cracker of a day ended up with 7 pheasants and a couple of pigeons in the bag between us one was a feral using 24g steel 4s and 5s

Yes bought about 4 guns from there over the years and took guns to be repaired, no complaints from me

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I agree nothing wrong with lead, but its on the horizon that we won't be able to to use it so I'm ready now I've switched all my guns to steel proofed ones even though you can shoot steel through SOME non steel proofed guns and get away with it I'm doing it for piece of mind plus you will have trouble selling a non steel proofed one when lead is banned

What do you think their aim is ?

Fair enough but you will end up using non toxic in the end, try using some steel carts you might be surprised by the results I haven't used lead for 5 years steel only because I can sell on steel shot pigeons you need non toxic for Wildfowl so i thought stuff I I'll just use steel full stop so I'm more than ready for when lead is banned I'll just carry on as usual with no gripes

There are such things as steel proofed guns just saying

Exactly don't give them reason to shoot you in the first place its common sense well not that common as we all know

I think you'll find a lot of clay shooters shoot game also, most of the top well known clay shooters are definitely game and pigeon shooters so they will be on our side but yes there are staunch clay only shooters who need to get on-board

I've had the same scenario a few times one time in November about 5 years ago there was over 2000 pigeons on 2 old stubbles next to each other I got out the car they all lifted I watched with my mouth open as they all disappeared into the distance I set up not a one came back they were definitely migrant birds because they hadn't been around in previous weeks they are so hard to do anything with

Thing is with this people are not gearing themselves up for whats coming, and they are going to shoot lead to the very last so when the time comes to move over to non toxic mainly steel they won't have a clue what's best to use gun and cart wise I shot a driven day last sat using 32g 4s steel all day after one drive I shot 6 stone dead in air at 45 to 50 yards ok not a high bird shoot but a 50 yard pheasant or anything is a good bird in my opinion one picker up asked what shell's I was using after I told him and handed him one of them he said I wouldn't of believed that had I not seen it also asked what chokes i was using 1/2 and 3/4 then asked and have you had any issues using those chokes non whatsoever I've been using steel for everything since 2018 so I'm well used to them by now and know the capability of them the guy who asked has never used steel so he will be a little bit more informed

I've seen it myself many times gas pipes literally touching the underside of floorboards if you don't set the circular saw to the exact or better slightly under the floorboard thickness you will hit them, I ripped a bathroom out years ago and exact same thing a Brad nail right through middle of the 22mm hot pipe it never leaked until disturbed been there for many years without leaking

And I use feet inches and yards 😉

Not often you get to wear a t-shirt in October in 70 degree weather, birds still on an old stubble ankle heigh with weed and re grown barley seed set up at 1pm enjoyed a nice afternoon popping pigeons it was steady never hectic they dried up at 3.30pm ended with 46 and a magpie

A fourth you mean Well they are here at the moment it can all change very quickly and they can vanish