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  3. Where to sell pigeons in Essex?

    in Talk From The Field

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    On 17/04/2018 at 18:46, kenholland said:

    shame about that cloudwalker . you should not have to stop shooting pigeons carn't you carry on and just freeze the breast meat.

    I used to shoot about 1000 pigeons a year. This year just over 50 and I have enough pigeon breast in the freezer to last me a while.

  4. Where to sell pigeons in Essex?

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    On 28/03/2018 at 15:39, kenholland said:

    seem to have this problem up and the country , just lately , the poor old pigeon shooter does is bit , then struggles to sell , I thought them over the water cannot get enough  of them ? ANY SUGGESTIONS  LADS .

    I have pretty much stopped shooting Pigeons now since Garetts closed in Northants.

    Anyone know of any dealers who want pigeons around here?

  5. SMK M22

    in Airgunners

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    I have a SMK and have no problems with it. I have taken out all the squirels in my garden with it and my 10 year is becoming a crack shot with it.

    It cost me £190 and is my first PCP.

  6. Anyone tried one of these?

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    On 09/04/2018 at 13:09, Dangerous Brian said:

    Bought one the other day. Easy to set up and seems to work pretty well. The bracket for the screen is a bit rudimentary but functions well enough (replaced/ modified it already). Not sure what the max. range is going to be in the real world but was great for 10yd rat work (after I had figured out how to alter the focus on the torch- Doh!).

    Thanks for that. Seems quite good value if you can get one via bidding. He certainly seems to be selling a lot.

  8. Anyone tried one of these?

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    I have been looking for a night vision set up so I can tackle some rats. I have seen one on the well known web site called " Ratta". It is on at £125, which seems quite reasonable.

    I dont want to pay out £500 for a set up as I only have a few rats.

    Has any one tried this IR add on?

  12. Myth busted? Possibly not for me.

    in Talk From The Field

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    I have two farms that last year had lots of birds , this year zero. I checked them today and they had twenty birds which have been on them since November but it has never built up flock wise. Other farms we have for clover shooting grow rape and never have a problem worth setting up for it would appear that they select some farms for rape and ignore others totally.

     

    You are spot on. After 25 years this has become very apparent. Certain fields/ farms never have a pigeon on them and I dont believe it has anything to do with the variety of rape that has been planted. They always stick to the same fields whenever they are planted rape.

  16. Spring drillings

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    This evening I walked a field which was drilled with beans yesterday. I had to dig in the slots to find a bean. There will be no pigeon activity on that field until the crop is harvested.

    I am sure you are right. Roll on October, though us pigeon shooters do seem to wish the year away!!!

  17. Spring drillings

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    Although I have had a few good days on the Rape in the past month, like everyone else I was looking forward to bagging some woodies on the drillings.

    On one of my permissions the farmer told me they were putting in 700 acres of spring beans. Great I thought!!

    How wrong could I be. I checked the fields at different times of the day and not a pigeon in sight.

     

    I saw the farmer the other day and told him of the lack of pigeons and he told me they had just invested in a new drill and it was so precise that nothing was left on the surface.

     

    Does the advent of super drillers mean the end of bagging large numbers of pigeons on spring drillings???

  22. Success in the fog

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    If the field has been absolutely hammed maybe you should have visited it before now, but well done anyway.

     

    auto pilot may be ? they were in for a shock that day, your farmer wasn't doing his rounds much then, my guy would have soon been on the blower.but still well done.

     

    I probably should of got over there earlier but usually there are other pigeon shooters shoot the land too {at least 4 groups}. I couldn't see any signs that any one else had shot it. Surprisingly also the farmers never put out any bangers. Judging by the numbers of birds I saw at the end of the day, every pigeon for miles around must have been feeding there.

    I shall be back next Saturday!

  23. Success in the fog

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    A very good day indeed.

     

    Do you think the pigeons get to their feeding field by memory in the fog?

    I'm not sure. They only started to flight once the fog started to lift slightly. I wonder whether visibility has to be at a certain level before they leave the roost??

  24. Success in the fog

    in Talk From The Field

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    I had not ventured out this winter looking for pigeons on the Rape. Firstly because it had been so wet and I knew that I would just cut up the field edges or get stuck! Secondly reading all the reports on here, It just didn't seem worth it.

     

    Today I thought I would give it ago. The ground I was going to shoot was a 40 minute drive away and I hadn't been over there since September. It was a slow old drive as the fog was thick. I arrived at 9.00am and pulled into the field. At first I thought it hadn't been drilled or the crop had failed large tracks of the field were just brown. It was only upon closer inspection that I realised the field had been absolutely hammered by the Pigeon.

     

    The field is massive 80 acres at least. I couldn't see any pigeon in the air but did spot about 30 huddled up in a tree. After much pondering I decide to give it a go despite there being nothing in the air . I set up in my favorite spot. I had shot this field for 20 years so knew all the flight lines. I was in my hide for 10.00 with my wirly, Turbo flapper and 16 fuds set out in front. The pigeon started to come in from all directions out of the fog. I didn't know which way to look. By 11am I had shot 2 boxes of shells and picked up 33 pigeon. The fog started to lift and things started to slow a little but by 12.30 I had shot 100 shells.

     

    Things really started to slow down and my shooting went down hill but what birds were about really decoyed well. They were turning towards my decoys from half way across the field and folding their wings from a great height. By 1.30pm it went really quiet and I saw the reason why. The pigeon had changed their flight line and were heading over to the other side of the field.

     

    I stuck it out until 3.30 with just the odd shot and was just about to pack up when, in the distance I saw 100's of pigeon heading back to roost. They were really high but 1 or 2 did make the fatal decision to come down and have a look. The flight continued for about another 15 minutes with wave after wave coming over high but once again the odd one came down to the decoys.

     

    I finally packed up and finished with 94 Pigeon for 144 shots. A very pleasing day!!

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