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I’ve fired 1000’s of steel cartridges through my full choked mossberg .410 and never had any issues including using #6 shot. I now use an old Miroku trap gun choked full and full for my pigeon shooting using steel and again no issues at all

Lots of big flocks about at the moment but it’s always the same this time of year. I think they are just migrant birds, PC and myself had an afternoon on Sunday on some drilled wheat and managed 70. We found the same with the birds not really that interested in the decoys even though we pushed big numbers off the field, they had been hard on this particular field for 3 days prior to us shooting

Coca Cola drinks fridge for sale. All works fine, bit tatty to look at but chills down as it should. I’ve no longer got the room to keep it due to a house extension. Comes with a rail to hang deer up. £50 collected from Warwick area

Two very different guns, I’m a Beretta man and if it was my money I’d get a second hand 682 or gold E. You will have a fair chunk of change out of 2 grand as well. I purchased a mint 32” gold E for the mrs not long ago for £1000. I can’t stand Brownings/Miroku’s but that’s just me

For the money your going to pay, you will get a second hand Beretta/Browning which will be a much better gun and hold value

I think he finished with 76. There are that many stubble fields on this block that be they just settled on a field inbetween the two of us

I had a quick look round last Thursday and found large numbers of birds on spring wheat stubble. Due to the amount of ground and also numbers about I invited PC out for the day so we could split up and try keep them moving. I put PC on the side where the birds were mainly feeding and I headed to a different part of the farm to try and intercept them on a different line. I set up on a spinney out in the middle of the field that the birds were flighting over but like last week most didn’t want to know the decoys. After an hour the line moved and I decided to pack up and set up just out from an oak tree the birds were now flying past and shot them flighting as they headed to the block PC was on. I had an excellent few hours and killed some fantastic birds all with Bioammo 24gr 7’s in steel. I finished with 190 picked

In the last few weeks my pigeon exploits have been non existent due to me getting my pheasants and partridge and starting an extension on my house. In the week I got text from a mate of mine saying pigeons in big numbers on spring wheat stubble and I could resist. I didn’t get chance to look before hand so this morning I quickly fed around and headed to the farm. I arrived to a good number of birds already feeding and a good line joining. After watching for half an hour I got set up but it soon became obvious the birds weren’t interested in decoying. I tried everything but they didn’t want to know. The line was non stop with huge numbers coming and going throughout the afternoon but I managed to scrap together a respectable bag of 133 pigeon.

Quite a few of the farms I shoot are not growing rape this winter. I’ve got some rape in some good areas though which should give me some shooting. A few of the farmers I’ve spoke to wanted to grow rape but with the dry weather forecasted they didn’t bother. It turned out the forecast was completely wrong with excellent growing conditions but with it being so expensive to grow it wasn’t worth the risk. I spun some kale/utopia on a plot of game cover that failed, it lay dormant for 3 weeks but then we had the rain and warm weather and it’s flew up. I’ve been told the flea beetle count is very low this year by a few people so what has been planted should do well

Flea beetle count is low this year

Last Wednesday I had a message from the bloke who buys birds off me, he wanted everything we had so on Thursday I gave PC a call and we bagged up everything in our freezers. We had a total of 1375 so I had to borrow a van from work to deliver them. Whilst with PC I asked if he was coming shooting on Friday as I had birds on the wheat stubble from last week, it had been a long time since he’s been out and he didn’t need much persuading after his annual trip to Greece. This ground had been cultivated on Thursday but we gave it a go and decided to split up to maximise our chances. We had a great afternoon even though the birds really wanted another field further on than us with PC finishing on 111 pigeon and myself on 182. I was glad PC beat the 100 mark after many invites from myself which didn’t quite work out as well as I wanted but the jinx is finally up and it was great to see him back out doing what we enjoy most and getting amongst them.

How does the shot “score” the barrels when it’s enclosed within the wad? I put on average 15-20,000 steel shells through my DT10 and auto a year and have no “scoring” in either guns. I pick up any wads I come across whilst picking up and I’ve yet to find a wad where the shot has penetrated the plastic to reach the barrels.

To add to that, you would need a serious amount of birds using an area to shoot that sort of number in a day and also someone who can shoot very straight.

I’m sure there are people out there who have shot 1000+ in a day. We only see what’s being shot because of forums like this and social media. There are many people who dont have social media and keep what they shoot to themselves. Didn’t Anthony Poolman have a big day last year or the year before where he shot over a 1000 birds in a day?

They certainly are but in reality how many people are set up to deal with large numbers of birds? I run a big walk in chiller with a friend and then between PC and myself we have a fair few chest freezers which run constantly. With large bags being shot more and more I can see large volumes being dumped which isn’t good