kevin15

Have the battery in your hide with spade end connectors, have one connected and touch the other connector as when required. i use to do that all the time befor i bought a timer unit which i can run two flappers and two peckers at the same time. with the timer unit no need for a long cable.

Have you asked the farmer if you can put a bale hide in the middle of the field if he won't allow this put a net hide hide up in the middle of the field and leave it there. Also i find using a couple of floaters really helps

Has anybody used pecking crow decoys, i shot 44 the other day and missed as many using one pecking crow to side of my decoy pattern it made good sport on an otherwise slowish afternoon on a maize stubble game strip. has anyone else had success using crow peckers.

A friend of mine who works at a shooting ground as an instructor was shooting alongsside a combine a few years ago when a Transit van pulled up at the side of the field in question. Six armed response guys got out and through a load speaker one of them told my mate to put his gun down and lie face down on the ground which he did, Then two of the officers started to climb over the fence, seeing this my mate called over to them but the guy with the loud speaker told him to shut up. three times my mate tried to speak to the two climbing over the fence but every time was shouted down by the officer with the load speaker. The two climbing over the fence jumped into the field and dissapeared into a large ditch covered by brambles it took two other officers five minutes to help them out with all thier webbing and helmets all over the place scratched faces and embarrassed looks.My mate knew the ground and was trying to warn the officers not to jump over the fence. the guy driving the combine was the landowner so hence there was no problem but it must have been the funniest thing to see.

I dont think that the pigeons will eat the beans once they start to chit unlike peas

Double H I Shoot on 5/6 farms in that area and have had good days on at least the last dozen outings, which farms do you shoot over?

If birds are shying away from your hide the birds following them will also shy away before you even see them, thus breaking up the flight line. I have sat in tram lines shooting pigeons over laid barley with no hide and had the birds streaming in, If the birds are determined to come in they will. I think one of the most important things on a hide is to have a very good back on the hide so as not to create a silhouette outline of yourself and dont leave your hide too often even if dead birds are scettered all over your pattern only tidy it up when the birds stop coming in. If you are using nets cut some foliage from nearby hedges to help belend in the nets doing this only takes five minutes.

I have had some good days on drilling in the last two weeks, the best being 137 on drilled barley and 226 on drilled beans, the 226 was with a mate. I shot 24 Rooks/crows and 52 pigeons on monday afternoon but saadly the drillings have all but finished a good down pour might help things. Now the flocks are breaking up and the rape is blooming there might be a chance of better bags on the rape a friend of mine had his best day ever on rape (256) at this time of year ( guess who that was Lazza )

My father in-law has told me that the old boys in the village used pieces of blue/gray rag for decoying pigeon this was an era when decoys were not so common place as today, i would imagine it was in the fourties or fifties, by all accounts it worked well.

There is a differnce... one set of barrels is two inches longer

I have shot loads of big bags, the largest bag i have ever shot was a 1000 KG Fertilizer bag and wrong or right if i got the oppertunity i would do it again. What is the accepted size of a bag that you can shoot.

I am all for getting Quality decoying equipment cheaper, I just find it strange that theese prices were much higher a few months ago. There are clearly people trying to help other like minded pigeon shooters and there are people trying to take people for as much as the market will allow ,nothing wrong with that but there is no point in weeping on the carpet when cheaper products come on the market.

dont worry lads i have just been informed that it cant be done. Cheers kev

I have just bought a remington 1100 Auto, does anybody know if i can get a Multi choked 3" magnum Barrell for it? If so where. Cheers Kev.

If i were you i would take your new gun with you, The three main things with gun fit are Combe, Stock Length and cast the chances that all theese will need adjusting are slim. For what its worth i had a beretta and always shot high with it, having always used a browning. I dont think you should change the style in which you shoot either that could well be a reciepe for disaster, you should always look at the bird first and not down the gun.

This is the best tip for decoys, flocked with four colours they are the best i have ever seen. Shells, full bodied and even peckers, pigeon or crow. Best of all they were cheap at least half the price i have seen anywhere. Strictly first come first served basis Tel 01582 712353

It is ilegal to bait a field for pigeons, The main people who do it are pigeon guides, they have only one thing in mind and it isn,t pest control or sport it is cash how much cash they can charge. Malc now i know why you said you dont need a rotary device.

First and formost it is a sport which i enjoy, however there is no question that i am indeed carring out pest control from the farmers point of view. I have no problem with the fact that i gain great plesure from shooting and also believe the i have more respect than most for the countryside as a whole.

I think the article was aimed at pigeon guides more than than the solo shooter.

I thought this topic would have come up by now but as it has'nt i will try to start it. Who is going on the countryside march if you are not going why

I Fully agree with fox huunting. IF a ban goes is implemented that will be the thin end of the wedge. Any one who uses this site should be going on the countryside march to show support

Would it be fairer when decoying to count the oppourtunities you have not the amount of shots fired, any bird passing within 40 yards is an aceptable target. Another funny thing ... the other day i was being watched by a grumpy nieghbouring gamekeeper I killed 13 birds with 13 shots including 2 left and rights however i would say that my average was about 50%.

I am also right handed but shoot left handed, my gun has a left hand cast but more importantly i have a left dominent eye

Two things that are worth a try if birds are shying away from your whirler (1) Have the dead birds tilted in at about a 45 degree angle. (2) Tilt the whole whirler to one side so the birds look like they are landing. If you tilt the whirler the birds will then swing close to the ground on one side and swing up high on the other ( make sure you tilt it so the birds face into the wind on the low side )

The armed response unit went round to this blokes house next to the field we were in as they thought it was him shooting. He is well known in our area for all types of shooting. They soon realized it was not him shooting when he answered the door in his pants.The farmer phoned me up on my mobile but we were on another farm by this stage. I phone the firearms officer in the morning and he was fine he just said if someone reports someone else shooting they have to send the armed response unit out even if you have already told the police you are going shooting at night. Also the farmer was fine he is cutting his beans this weekend so we should get some good lamping on that next week. I have spoken the the bloke in question and he seems a really nice guy with a wealth of knowledge on all things shooting and has told me if i need any help with anything just pop round, so as far as me and me mate are concerned " Right Result "