Brian Carpenter

I am sorry to hear about your loss, I truly hope the people responsible for this rot in hell, regards Brian

Hi Cranfield, I am over here with my girlfriend in the golden state of California. Precisely we are living right in the heart of San Francisco. Great city to live but very little shooting. I am trying to get in to the fishing though. We only live about 20 minutes walk from the beach. Hopefully, all being well I will be back for good in Britain in just under a year and a half. Then I will beable to do my main hobby again!!! Brian

Hi everyone, thanks for your responses to my last post. I thought I would give a little more info about myself. I am currently working on the west coast of America, hence I get to do very little pigeon shooting. Last year I had one day and it was truly one of the most memorable I have ever had. It was the begining of July on a windy summers day and I was back in England so I decided to visit some of my old shooting haunts. with my dad. I remember looking at all the wheat fields and thinking how good they looked, there was not one bit of flattened corn. I had never seen the corn looking so good. We then came to the type of field that you dream about. Unexpectantly, the peas had been cut for silage very early and the pigeons were throwing themselves in to the field. This was when the fun started. Since the peas were cut we were able to drive right to the place where we wanted to shoot. Got the nets and decoys out and set up on the hedge. Before we had got in to the hide, the pigeons were in to our decoys. We set up by 11am and finished about 5pm. Unfortunately we had dinner plans. Anyway, the bag with three people shooting was about 80 pigeons and a few crows. The shooting was consistent all day and I am not a bad shot so lets say I hit about 1 out of 2 birds that I fired at. We were shooting with shotguns. I have read through several different forums on this website and was wondering how can people shoot 150-300 pigeons in one day? Are you guys exceptional shots? Do you always manage to get your left and rights? I am just really curious. Also what was your best day? Looking forward to hearing about your big days Brian

Hello everybody, I am new to the site, I have been pigeon shooting for about 14 years. Some strange things have happened but one of the most funniest things I have ever heard about is as follows. There is an old friend of mine who I go pigeon shooting with. He is quite the character and has very little common sense. Anyway picture the scene a recently planted triangular field, with pigeons dropping in to it by the dozen. This person did have the right to shoot the field. However, there were several things that should of stopped this person from shooting it. Firstly there was a major dual carriage way running down one side, a single road lane down the other and to the back of the field there was a garden centre. Well with lack of common sense he set up, sat down and waited for the fun to start. About fives minutes later the next thing he hears, "Come out with your hands up." Baffled he stands up to find that his barbor jacket had developed little red holds in it, which were in fact from the lasers of the guns of the swat squad. He then left his hide and was told to lie down in the mud, (it had rained several days prior to this). After the police had checked him out, his gun certificate and other things, they told him he was alright to continue. Regardless to say, he never shot that field that day or another other day. I donot think he thought it was funny at the time but I always laugh when I think about it. Has anyone else got any such like stories?