pigeon controller

Well done , nice mixed days shooting.

Well done for sticking it out on bad day weather wise , good result.

When you shoot at a fast bird crossing you shoot instinctively and hit the bird. When you follow a gliding or hovering bird you often point and miss. You've seen me quote this before but it works for me on slow or decoy birds, Wait and then Move,Mount and Shoot.

Did he use the gun???

Well done, remember to enjoy it and remember what works.

Well done, result with your new decoys.

Thanks for your nice comments , we just keep looking and so far we are lucky in finding the birds . To answer the question about the hide position it's where the Hide was.

Friday saw us heading to a farm who had called us and stated that he had never seen so many pigeons about on the stubble. When we arrived our hearts sank as we realised that it was three fields of oat stubble he was talking about . Now in this forum we have had discussions about they never get on oats, in twenty odd years of shooting I have never shot pigeons on oats, but NEVER SAY NEVER, when we pulled onto the field about fifty lifted and we watched it for about twenty minutes and picked up on a flight line and set up under it. In the first hour we had ten birds return and only one decoyed. We were in the mood to pack up when the flightline started and they kept coming. They were passing over us to another farm and we could hear another shooter picking up on the birds that we had not shot. We packed up at 18.00 and picked up one hundred and ninetyone birds. When we dropped in at the farm the farmer insisted that we come back on Saturday so we said yes. Saturday saw us back at the same farm we normally would not return to the same farm the next day but we had commited ourselves. We looked at the flightline on another field and set up it was the same as before they would not decoy but would fly over high making for some excellent shooting it was very hot and we had combines in fields both sides of us so it was very dusty but the birds kept comming. We finished shooting at 18.00 and picked up one hundred and seventy one birds. Monday saw us heading in a different direction looking for birds and we covered about twenty five miles and saw nothing, it was a different day, cloudy, windy and cooler. We decided to go back to the same farm as they had had a rest on Sunday and see if they were there. Talking to the farmer he said that the farm next door had been shot on Sunday but not his. We looked at the third field of oat stubble and it was devoid of birds, we then had a heavy shower of rain and when it stopped a few birds came in from the wind ward side of the field and settled in. So we set up and started to shoot and the birds all decoyed straight in to us and we finished the day picking up one hundred and four birds. This has raised a few questions in my mind as to why the birds would not decoy on the sunny days and that is with natural decoys? and also is this genetically modified oats that now are attractive to pigeons?. We checked the crops of birds on all the days and they all had oats in them.

Well done, result with the pump action.

Well done good result.

Good result , well deserved.

Well done for sticking it out in the hot weather.

"COWBOYS"

Well done , brilliant result, well deserved.

It's reported that males only grow to approx ten pounds.

They are reported to eat their own body weight three times in a year. So they have periods that they do not eat at all

Well done , good result.

Well done , the first of many.

Well done , result.

Brilliant picture, I have stalked pike in the past caught them on dead baits twitched past there nose.

I love it when a plan comes together , well done.

Well done lads , great result.

Good weekend and good result.

Well done for a short session.

Well done , result.