WalkedUp

Great result, good five hours of sport. I had a poor day, 7 birds for 8 shots within 40 mins but was slow and so packed up to find somewhere better. Didn’t shoot another pigeon all day. Lots of fresh cut wheat but they are favouring other field. Ah well.

Recall gets taught from 7 weeks old, it is a game and just becomes embedded in them. Nothing overrides recall. I recall my dogs from their dinner, if they don’t come instantly then I’m not happy and more training needed. Anytime a pup meets another dog (or 70% of the time) its recall whistle back.

Oops, sorry. They new colours have blinded me!

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From memory the picture I liked best was the one where you had got confused and crossed out your measurements 🤣

My iPhone isn’t fairing well either. People’s edits are coming up as replies and overall everything is a bit of a visual mess. The top bar is over two lines and the sharp contrast is hard on my weary eyes. I’m sure with a few tweaks all will be sorted.

1 earlier this week on the feeder, young female

£185 + VAT is great value, an investment in years of shooting

Received and fits perfectly. Thank you very much.

Mourinho was still a professional footballer, I understand what you mean but would be wary to spout coaching advice unless you have been exposed to best practice. With a shotgun your eye is effectively your rear sight and gun fit forms your front sight. If the gun doesn’t fit it will not shoot where you aim. I made this mistake with my first gun that fitted very badly, too far out for me to adapt to shoot it.

I would say that you are on a hiding to nothing now. Yes, training can be done once a dog is fully grown but it is much harder. I don’t want this to sound overly harsh but as you had the dog as a puppy when it was malleable and didn’t manage to train it then you may not be the best person for the job. Therefore you have three options: 1. Professional 1 on 1 instruction with a good obedience trainer 2. Give up the dog (cowardly as you are passing a problem you created on) 3. Confine the dog to living life on a lead (unfair on the dog and just hard work) As the bottom two options aren’t great I think you will be able to make the right choice.

Pay attention. To HER right.

Blonde and brunette to her right are nice enough.

I’ve had the police in my hide too, in my opinion not worth taking the risk of guessing when it is easy enough to refer to the law.

Or a man and his son sat in a hide with a 12bore and a 20bore.

I have had guns ‘fitted’ by RFDs and an ex Olympic shot shooting coach. I would not constitute this a a gun fitting however as they were not gun fitters or had access to a try gun etc. My guns have been adjusted to fit by me by dry mounting and tinkering. What I was amazed by is that I did it separately by feel on guns years apart and when they have subsequently been laid next to each other the measurements were within millimetres.

I don’t post about my shooting as I am quite lazy and also a relative novice. I have only been decoying pigeons for 20 years and so have comparatively little knowledge compared to some of the men on this forum. I post the odd write up in the vermin control sections. I have learnt a lot from this forum about pigeon shooting and also about how easy it is to make myself look like an eegit or offend someone accidentally.

That’s great 👍

In my opinion it is difficult to justify killing of wood pigeons in your garden under the general licenses.

Correct, ‘or his agent’ 👍

Growing up my friend and I always used to cycle anywhere we fancied. 108 miles to Anglesey etc. Culminated aged 15 when we got on a plane and cycled through 5 European countries to catch our flight back. It was a great holiday, didn’t really know where we were going we just went. The whole of Europe was on a single page map - just major cities shown as dots, no mobile phones, no bank cards. We ran out of cash a few days short and so getting back to Paris for our flight home after a few weeks was a slog. Always remember my mate got propositioned by a paedophile in a hostel in Germany, it was very funny at the time but then trying to then sleep whilst the bloke was still in the next bunk....😳 Avoided big hills but were still doing serious miles each day during mid summer. Came back with a great tan and powerful legs, got a girlfriend and 20 years later haven’t been on my bicycle since 😢

If you were closer I would happily go for a drive round your permissions and surrounding land with you to show you what I would be looking for, where to set up and alike. See if you can offer that to someone in Leicestershire, both shoot in one hide and I’m sure they would be happy to help.

Most big bags are shot in the afternoon generally, a lot of guys spend the morning finding them then the afternoon killing them. Crows are normally best in the morning, woodpigeons in the afternoon and sandwiches at lunch.

What time of day are you walking them off? The key to a good day is birds in the air rather than on the ground. A strong flightline in. And then when you clear them off you want them to be straight away coming back in. I believe woodpigeons eat early, then roost to digest during midday, then return to the field to feed again late afternoon. If you are walking them off mid morning and they are not returning they may have alternative food sources nearby or just be happily fed.

I will try and borrow a GoPro and harness one day this season, that’s probably the best way to see them work - unless you can shoot over some. Where are these videos?