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That must have been awful. Very glad to hear he's okay now.

I've read a fair few pigeon decoying articles and accounts now from the comfort of my quarantine armchair, so I recon I must have rather got the understanding of it. Seems to me that what you have to do is set your decoys out and then sort of dash back to the hide pretty sharpish to the get the gun slip off before the first customer comes sailing into view (this seems to be something of a race between the pigeon and the shooter, so I've been training my standing start sprints) and then just hope that you've brought enough cartridges for the day.

Thank you all for the kind welcome.

Yes, not far at all. I can do either of those days next week. I'm out on the crows tomorrow, so I'll look to give John a call on Friday. As others have said, this is a superb offer to a new member - I very much appreciate it.

I'm in Nethergreen, so can't be all that far away. I've just done my Googling of NPPC - looks fantastic! I would love to take you up on that please. I'm on furlough at the minute as well, so very flexible for days. Thank you! I'm what we shall charitably call "a developing shot"

Thanks for the welcome, both. Panoma1, fortunately that was just a misleading turn of phrase! I think the decoys will be fine. On second thoughts, actually, it's the decoys. Yes, that's why my score count is low. Definitely the fault of the decoys 🙂

Greetings, all. I hopped onto the forum at the tail end of last year when I was turning my mind to starting up with pigeon shooting. I've just recently gotten some permissions - right before the lockdown came about, so I'm only just now getting out for some sport. Still, it gave me leisure to read my Archie Coats a couple of times whilst gazing thoughtfully/hungrily at the local pigeons. I'm brand new to decoying and have hardly fired a shot in the last twenty years due to being overseas (I spent this winter just gone Wildfowling, but there was a lot more hunkering in the rain than shooting. A lot more. Still, cheap on cartridges). The threads and topics on this forum have been hugely helpful, so thank you all for those. I'm sure I will have a good few questions in time, but for now I'm going to spend some time out with my new shiny decoys, read up on the threads and start on my list of all the ways the birds are outwitting me!