pigeon controller

The birds are very spooky these days and if they decide to go you have I chance.

Well done, you have to keep on the move to find them.

Picked up DB 08.00 Friday and we headed out to the new permission we obtained last week. When we arrived there were about eighty birds in the trees and none joining so we set up.We shot steadily for about an hour then it happened, DB obtained a A391 about twelve months ago in that time he has had a few "FOURS" that is three shots four birds down. so we had about eight birds coming in at once first shot, two down, second shot , one down , third shot two down, WOW!!. To his credit they were not flappers just winged they were all stoned. Anyway after two hours it went dead and we moved on. We went onto a rape field that we have shot before but the birds normally move off. While we were shooting we noticed that all the farms around had gas guns going off and this kept the birds returning. We ended the day with a total of one hundred and twenty two. 08.00 Saturday saw us driving in the oposite direction looking for birds we looked and looked nothing on the Rape some on the clover( two's and three's). Eventually we saw a small group in a small group of trees on the edge of a rape field.So we agreed to give it a go as we walked over to the field about twenty lifted off the field so we set up and waited for them to return. They came back in one's and two's but would not decoy but all stayed very high and they were testing shots but very enjoyable we picked up forty eight at the end of the day. 08.00 Monday, we had seen the weather forcast and it said it would be foggy and then cloudy and we went to a field that you can only shoot with certain weather conditions as it has a church on one side and houses on the other side of a five acre field. What you have to do is build your hide on the edge of a tall hedge and place your decoys about forty yards out under the power cables that cross the field then let the birds come over your head and shoot at them going away. The big problem is the hedge at your back is so thick you never see them comming so it is reaction/reflex shooting. Epecially when DB say's Don't miss this one !!!!! We stayed for about two hours then the sun was in our eyes so we moved to another field that I had seen birds on last week and DB had not so I wanted to prove to him that there was a flight line across the rape at the end of the field. When we arrived not a bird in sight, we saw the farmer to seee if it had been shot and he said not since we shot it last. So we took the gamble and drove to the rape and at the far edge about fifty lifted off so we set up.After about twenty minutes two had returned so I said I would walk round to the other rape field and keep them on the move. As I got to the other field it lifted about one hundred birds so I shot one going over high and lost it in the rape. I stayed for about ten minutes and could hear DB shooting so I made my way back, and as if by magic the flight line I had told DB about was constant for the next three hours. We ended the day with ninety seven. What a great weekend.

Well done, that's one he'll of a night!!!!!

Well done, a nice end to the day

Well done,

Well done Ben, you stuck at it and it paid off in the end.

Well done

Well done Ben , we have found the birds to be spooky and decoy shy. We need them to split up and pair up so they have something else on their minds.

Good bag , well done

Well done , good crack!

Well done , the first of many.

Well done ,keep at it.

Well done.

No I just used dead birds as stand ups and keep adding to them.

Good shooting, protecting your stock.

Well done , another one bites the dust.

Well done, the first of many.

Well done, keep at them.

Yes Craig, stand ups are real birds that I have shot and are propped up with old bike spokes.

Fisherman Mike, Youve found my secret it's all "Cut and Paste" I never get out of bed!! Or is it a cardboard cut out that I stick in the ground and add the cardboard pigeons and crows!!!

When we have a field with no cover we have used a fishing brolley either with a seat or standing just cover it with netting with a couple of poles at the front. If you havent got a fishing brolley a patio brolly would do the job. Make sure that you have the wind off your back.

To Many, Thanks, I shot like a lemon today not giving enough lead on the crows.

I had the call this morning that they were hitting the barley seed, so I set out on my own (DB had to work, Shame) when I arrived at the field a party of ramblers had got lost and had just walked across the field!!. Not a bird in sight so I set up under an oak tree to give me cover from the sun and put out my decoys. Six fresh pigeon to the left and five thawed crows to the right and waited. Within two minutes my first crow arrived and the day just carried on from that. I finished the day with thirty one pigeon and one hundred and three crows,rooks and jackdaws. A good day on the seed.