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  3. People bags

    in Talk From The Field

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    29 minutes ago, strimmer_13 said:

    Definitely read that title all wrong, thought ******* hell this should be in the corona section 😂

    But going sunday, not been in months... 

    Maybe wrong title 🤣

     

    29 minutes ago, strimmer_13 said:

    Definitely read that title all wrong, thought ******* hell this should be in the corona section 😂

    But going sunday, not been in months... 

     

  12. Windy day over Peas

    in Talk From The Field

    Posted

    On 25/05/2018 at 10:00, marsh man said:

    There is another question in the last half of your post , how long do you leave a field before you re shoot it  ? ,  again another question where you will get several different answers , where one person would bypass a field with only a few on it , the next one would be quite happy to set up for the chance of a odd shot , time is another factor , with us , within reason we can go whenever we like where somebody who have to work for a living might be working weekends and only get a day off during the week , this would have to be the day to shoot on .

    Then , what quantity of land he can shoot over , is the land shared by other shooters , is there any of the same crops in the area , the distance the person have to drive to keep an eye on it , and no doubt several more reasons you can think of .

    I have  a family with little ones so time is a factor so I go regardless to the surroundings.

    I am more than happy just to be out in the field shooting the odd Pigeon.

     

     

  13. Windy day over Peas

    in Talk From The Field

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    On 25/05/2018 at 08:39, JDog said:

    And there you have it Hursty, sage advice from some experienced pigeon shooters.

    The sentiment contained in the last sentence of your last post is one I often see on the forum. Surely you are going to the same field to see if pigeons are still using it in numbers rather than going to the field and setting up regardless.

    I've been watching and they are still plentiful!

    It's 2 minutes from my house which help.

    Great advice all round. You can never stop leaning.

     

    On 25/05/2018 at 08:19, pigeon controller said:

    I started approx thirty years ago when a chance meeting with DB while I was pike fishing. He had been shooting with his older brothers for twenty years. They had used cardboard decoys,painted milk bottles self made fibre glass decoys and folded plastic half shells. The best decoys were real birds injected with formaldahyde and carried in  a wicker fishing kreel.

    They made flying frames to replicate landing birds, hand operated flappers. One that worked on a lofting pole up in a tree, four others that worked on a series of pulleys, so one flap from the hide had the effect of four birds landing in the pattern.

    DB and I developed a hand operated magnet based on a cycle free wheel, cradles for tall crops and a flyer out of a tree swooping down Ito the pattern. 

    We have bought magnets and commercial flappers. All in the pursuit of outwitting the Wood Pigeon. 

    As stated previously all will work on the right day, the trick is not to fall into " Robotic Pigeon Shooting"  that is to say the same pattern and equipment each time you shoot. We have a basic set up and then adjust as necessary and this has helped us over the years. Even to the point of putting the magnet in the field behind the hide. The same set up will not always work two days running, as Old'un stated you have to find the mood they are in. As a general rule we do not like magnets on seed but have found them to be effective on clover if kept very low.

    Well done Hur5ty on your 74 you proved that being adaptable gave you a bag, had you been dogmatic and stayed with the magnet you would have had a normal shooting day.

    Some great advice and some interesting points.

     

  15. Windy day over Peas

    in Talk From The Field

    Posted

    Interesting comments. Thank you!

    I sometimes find that Pigeons do not like flying over it so I place my Magnet  at the back of my decoy set up.

     

    4 minutes ago, motty said:

    I have found that sometimes they shy away from the magnet early on in a session. Persevering with it can bring rewards.

    Interesting. I was shooting over Rape a couple of weeks ago and they didn't mind the Magnet at all. 

  16. Windy day over Peas

    in Talk From The Field

    Posted

    I found today shooting on Peas that my magnet scared 90% of the Pigeons away.

    Bought it in after and hour or so and they started to play Ball.

    Its was fairly windy so maybe that had an impact on the Magnet.

    Ended up with 74 so on this occasion taking the Magnet in worked.

    Anyone else had this experience in windy conditions?

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