Wilksy II

Did you see any pigeons on our side of the river?

Sounds a great few hours, I’m planning an outing tomorrow and I love reading reports the night before,cheers!

I recently got my results from my ancestry dna test I am 30% Scandinavia 30% GB (narrowed down to northern England), 18% Western Europe, 11% Irish/Scottish and the remaining 11% not certain! I’ve dabbled in my family tree and it shows to be shipwrights in east hull for nigh on 300 years on my dads side

I didn’t read the ‘this chap can shoot’ comment but the lack of jasper and a roar of joy at dropping some of those birds made think it wasn’t you Jdog. Good vid cheers!

Only these are wild birds that cost nothing to rear or feed, that’s why I can’t see why a free day would be such a hardship to them, As said, hope you get it sorted I’m sure you will

No I can’t say I have!

Good to get back into the decoying, no doubt there’s a lot more shooting to be had of those cover crops, good bag as well!

Good on you Neil, it great to see, I wish someone had nurtured my enthusiasm early on, unfortunately I put my 12yr old daughter off for life put her on the Basc have a go stand at a game fair and she didn’t like the kick, she’s not bad with an air rifle though

Blimey! I cannot image a day like that! Afternoon really, good work gents!

Not at all! Anyone who's stood in a wood can relate to your post, I love roost shooting, great post spower!

It was a good result and good effort for changing locations, it’s too easy to stay put and suffer the consequences, I think there’s summat to be said for letting them have a feed early on,which suits me as I couldn’t be up and at em at that time!

An exceptional bag on rape! Bah you must have some pigeons!

I would imagine you’ve really enjoyed that Jdog, no finer sport!

Hello pigeon watch! Thought I’d share my day on the rape today, I’ve neglected my decoying and this forum come to that for a while, so I thought it was about time I got my finger out! A text mid week off the farmer prompted it, and things just came right for today, a good easterly wind meant I was in a good spot with the wind on my back, a magnet up wind, a flapper two bouncers down wind and twenty sillosock covered shells out front, and a rope banger on my other rape field half a mile away, set up for 9:30 and we were off! No time for a brew and a text to the farmer the pigeons were coming in and after a frantic ten minutes three pigeons on the deck but it should have been more, i settled down and got into a rhythm, the birds calmed down as well but still came steady in groups of five to twenty,this is where the title comes in, a decent group came in and decoyed lovely, picked my bird and two fell! Quickly found a second target and low and behold I shot my first triple (i don’t own an auto) anyway, during the course of the morning it happened again only I fluffed my second shot but it still greatly help my ratio. things noticeably tail off after 1pm and and by 2:30pm it was clear they had had enough as only added two to the bag. I drove round to the second rape field to retrieve my now burnt out banger pole to find a strong 100 birds lift, that field has suffered as badly as the one in the picture, both were planted early and really got away, but have been hammered unmolested for too long, to sum up I’ve really enjoyed today and a happy (ish) farmer! Edit; finished up with 28 picked 3 lost

Hiya ploughman! I’d say get out and have a go what have you got to lose, a bit of time maybe but you learn something every time you go out that’s part of the attraction to pigeon shooting! I’d say the pigeons in the tree 200yrds away won’t be there after your first shot so it depends how badly they want to be on your field, and I’d say ideally you set up we’re the damaged short rape is but it wouldn’t hurt to set up in the hedge and place a few decoys on the top of the hedge as it would a place where the birds would rest between feeds and would attract pigeons coming from your tree, good luck and enjoy yourself you can’t beat pigeon shooting in all its forms! And keep posting and let us know how you fair!

Yep I’m in with the pro wax jacket side just re waxed my Northumberland, it is heavy but hard wearing and reliable!

Blimey! I don’t often dip into the motoring section, sorry to read about your car problems mate that’s a big bill either way and a right pain in the backside!

Happy new year!!! Good observation agaman they are in great condition arnt they, we shot a few tonight roosting and they all had very clean wheat, last week in the same wood the majority had ivy berries, big flocks on the rape at leven but won’t decoy and don’t return

With the days being as short as they are that’s a busy couple of hours PC great work!

Happy new year Jdog! With pigeons do hard to decoy at the mo there’s no better way of dabbing a few!

That is lovely buze! I don’t suffer with jealousy as a rule but that would do me!! And I know what you mean about attention, last time out I only shot a brace of pheasants and a partridge but I enjoyed more that with any other gun!

Hello! I’ve just come across this thread, yes I’ve not been shooting long and my first gun was a o/u which I liked but I always fancied a sxs so I bought an awd Aya yeoman and really got on with it, then I got an awd semi pistol grip hammer gun from wabbitbosher,drove down to Kettering picked it up and dropped in at Jdog’s on the way back in time for roost Shooting and shot my first three pigeons with it! And it’s short in the lop but I love it! So then I decided that I was better suited to sxs so i sold the o/u and bought a fabarm beta lux pistol grip 3” steel proofed multi choked double trigger sxs, basically a modern sxs, feels like my o/u but I’ve got the sxs view down the barrels and double trigger all the time which is the hardest thing to flip between I think, my reckoning is that really you should stick to one gun and shoot it well, but it’s hard to resist buying others and giving them there turn, that said there’s obviously benefits to o/u because I have good friend of 84 who still shoots and decoys who remembers the first o/u he saw at a clay comp,he was good a friend of joe wheater and saw a lot of good clay shooters and at that time they all used sxs

Eyy! Good work Aga man, nice day for it as well!

Looks lovely Jdog! Thought you’d have given the butler (photographer) the day awwff!

A brilliant result PC, sorry your out of sorts hope your better soon, and as marsh man said thanks for all your reports throughout the year long may they continue, all the best to you and mrs PC, merry Christmas!