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  1. A brilliant day and a brilliant result.
  2. That answers the question then, thanks
  3. During a conversation with another shooter today , he commented on the lack of young birds. It made me think that due to the extreme heat we had this summer would that affect the eggs or the hydration of the fledglings in the nests. I delivered six hundred birds today and when bagging up I did not have any young birds which prompted me to ask this question. Over to the massive??
  4. Since returning from holiday I’ve been out twice, initially to try and prevent some geese feeding on some seeded fields. The other session I reported on which produced six birds from beneath and oak tree. I have watched two flightlines that are over my house and they both end up on some local land banked fields a which have a good number of oak trees and no shooting allowed. I believe the majority of birds are in the woods feeding on acorns. I’ve not seen much rape on my permissions so it may be a lean winter or I will have to do some door knocking mentioning I’m a pensioner!!!!
  5. I have a copy in Greece and re read it every year . It amazes me that I still find little snippets of information that I missed. He is the Master of the Game, using his military experience and training to defeat our quarry .
  6. Good report, well done. Nice to see that you have them still on stubbles , I’m not able to find a good number at present although I’ve just received a request for six hundred. So I will have to keep looking. Again well done Daz.
  7. Following the return from my holiday I received a request for thirty fresh pigeons. So out I went looking I was amazed by the lack of birds on the stubbles and directed drilled fields. The only birds I could find were under Oak trees , on inspection they were loaded with acorns and the recent strong winds had made a few drop. The feeding spell for acorns is approx ten minutes and seeing them on the field edges is a minute proportion of the the Oak tree population. I eventually found a field with a good number all round a thirty acre field under trees, so I set up between two trees with the wind off my back. I had no decoys but within two minutes the first bird past within range and became my first decoy. This shot sent approx fifty birds into the air from around the field. I shot from 14.00 to 18.00 and ended up with six birds as nothing returned. As the title states the amount of natural food available will keep them off the crops for a good time. I have mentioned in the past that my main shooting grounds are in the ancient “ Forest of Arden” which is predominantly Oak trees, this has a double effect it feeds the birds and keeps them off the crops and also the woods feed migrating birds from the cold north and holds them in the area.
  8. Not able to comprehend that she has passed, always around all my life. Rest in peace and thank you .
  9. Is my memory that bad ?? It was reported at the time that the three girls sold family jewellery the buy the tickets to fly to the war zone. No mention of any other country involved?? The “ wokes” will try to get her back by any means forgetting the deaths caused by Isis.
  10. Well done, great report, thanks for posting.
  11. Before I left the country, I noticed an increase in the amount of shooters due to stubbles. Over the passed year it has become the fashion to have multiple shooters on the same farm at the same time. Also we have conflict of interests as we shoot for the farmer and his son also gets shooters on the farm. If we see other shooters we normally move on but inform the farmer that we have turned out to his request and other shooters are there ( guilt trip) which gives us sole rights the following weekend. when I do meet other shooters the first question I ask is what do you do with your pigeons, mostly say I don’t shoot many and eat them which confirms they are not a threat. They will never turn out in the cold winter months. Bunny_blaster is a threat as he is getting too good!!! To his credit he obtains a lot of permissions.
  12. I’ve always considered corvids shooting as a lost leader to gain or maintain pigeon shooting rights, I did have one farmer give me a slab of cartridges that were left over from the farm game shoot. He informed me that they go through the books as “ Pest Control”
  13. When I started shooting pigeons with some commitment thirty plus years ago the situation was Russian cartridges were £70 a thousand and shot birds were sold to butchers for Ten Bob ( 50p) in the Birmingham Bull Ring Market to satisfy the demand for post war food flavours . Following the demise of the home market birds were sold to be canned or processed in Europe. Over the years the price for shot birds has dropped to one shilling (5p) and the destinations of these dealers covers the four corners of the UK. I deem myself to be very lucky that currently I’m receiving my old Ten Bob (50p) for steel shot birds, I am a game registered food handler but my cartridges are £320 a thousand we are competing with a large number of shooters. I’m no expert ( A drip under pressure) but when you consider the food protein of a shot pigeon at 50p it is a bargain, but you can’t afford to miss many!!!!! When will the treehuggers realise that we have a limited amount of land to grow our food on this island and if they all want to be vegans and veggies the lowly pigeon will be one of there main contenders for the same crops so why not take advantage of the resource and allow our supposedly starving/food bank users some real meat??
  14. That’s what it’s all about, enjoying the sport and pleasing the farmer. Last week end we had between us 800 pigeons which caused a great deal of problems keeping them fresh and freezing. The farmers had phoned us to carry out the shooting on standing crops with stubble close by so we were committed to help out. To be honest it was not pleasurable shooting just mechanical but it had to be done. I’m writing this sitting on the balcony in Greece and enjoying the rest and the beer, well done Marsh Man and thanks for reminding us what it’s all about.
  15. Back in the olden days when I had freezers with a fan and evaporator matrix , to freeze down larger amounts of birds I would direct a fan from a car radiator directly into the evaporator area . It seemed to work. Now with the modern condenser type would it help to do the same and cool the condenser to improve the cooling???? Over to the clever people on the forum, Ditchman included.
  16. Great report of an honest days decoying, well done.
  17. Wet carp sacks, either laid flat in the shade or strung up against a fence or hide in the shade with the breeze blowing through them.
  18. We have seen previously on BBC documentaries where Afghans have fired at troops on patrol then dropped the weapon so under the laws of engagement they can not be shot at. Personally if I was taking a prisoners back into his home to check for weapons and he went to pick an object up I would shoot , using night vision and then walking into a dwelling with lights is another concern due to distractions. We expect these elite troops to operate in the most arduous conditions and then criticise the methods used IT’S A WAR!!!!!!!!
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