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  1. I use Fioncchi Pigeon with 1/4 and 1/2 fixed choke.
  2. I had a call this morning to go and try and thin out some more corvids, set the decoys next to a small spinney and waited. In the first hour two came and paid the price, considered moving but noticed a combine started working two fields away and this lifted a flock of crows and jackdaws from then on they kept coming. The pigeons came over the spinney nice and high and they were to good the let pass.I met the farmer in the yard as I left and he said he had been watching me with his binoculars its agood job that I didnot increase the tally of 98 crows and jackdaws and 18 pigeon. For those who are interested in the figures I shot from 12.00 to 17.00 and used 150 shells.
  3. Well done Dave, you stuck at it got the result. The thunder was only The Gods trying to spoil your day and save the birds???
  4. Well done , I believe what you put into it , you get out of it. Over twenty odd years you loose one farm and then you gain two. As Dave K said " never give up" you deserve some good luck mate.
  5. Good result, well done, that will keep the freezer busy.
  6. Hi cocker3, we do not check our ratio normally but over this last weekend we carry 150 each and we ran out on both days. In the past if it is going to be a mega day we go back to the disco for more. These days we restrict ourselves to help transportation off the field and also freezing. Thanks for your comments.
  7. Well done, good write up and good result.
  8. Excellent day for being in the wrong position. Go get at them again.
  9. Hi Ben, we saw you on Saturday pull in the gate but in my post they would not decoy and we had to move on due to a phone call. Well done for your result, good bag , try not to cramp your stile in the future .
  10. Well done, great result. Keep the lad keen and enjoy it.
  11. Hi folks, I was trying to find a shooting picture that I posted a while back. It consisted of a setup showing a pattern. When i look at the shooting pictures thread. I can only view the most recent 10 pages. Am I doing something wrong? as I can see 120 pages on talk from the field for example. Any help would be appreciated.
  12. We went out Friday morning looking for cut rape after about an hour of driving we found two small fields that had been cut with loads of birds on them. We know on this farm they have just had the poults delivered and they are close to the two fields. The wind was very strong and blowing from the pens so we hoped that they would let us shoot. On contacting the farmer all was ok as long as we did not shoot towards the pens. We drove the field and decided the safest way to shoot was from a tree in the centre of the field. We set up and started to shoot there was a house in the left of us on the edge of the field but a safe distance away. We let the first bird come into the pattern to see the reaction and it came straight in and landed DB shouted at it and shot it as it flew away. During the day we had to move the magnet five times to try and make them come into the pattern this was due to the wind changing slightly during the day. After four hours the keeper drove across to us to ask us to stop shooting as they had received complaints about the noise!!! So we packed up .We picked up two hundred and fifty two pigeons at the end. This would have been a megga day if we had not been stopped. Saturday saw us driving around looking for cut rape again we travelled for about fifty miles and found lots of fields part cut but no birds.We found a field and contacted the farmer and he gave us the OK. We ended up at 12.30 setting up on a cut field with a lot of birds on it but it had been cut high and the birds were dropping on the old tyre tracks and walking through the stalks to feed. This made it very difficult to decoy them as they saw the decoys but would not try and land just vere off. At 13.30 we had a call asking us to come and shoot the crows that were on the barley stubble on another farm so we packed up and drove down to the field. There were a few jackdaws on it but more pigeon so we set up and shot till 18.00. We picked up one hundred and sixteen pigeon and fiftyfour blackies.
  13. Well done , now you've got the hang of it here's to the next.
  14. Good result going on your instincts, well done.
  15. Well done, RESULT , that will keep the freezer busy.
  16. Well done , the first of many keep at it.
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