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  2. This was a surprise to me.

    in Talk From The Field

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    18 minutes ago, marsh man said:

    Good to hear from you again P C , are you back from the problems they have been having in Grecce ? , what with the wild fires and now with the flooding it must have a huge impact on the holiday industry , it used to be most years we would have some form of a weather record but now it virtually every month , even now we have gone through five days of temps reaching 30 degtees and tomorrow again in the 30s , make you wander what is next on the list , will we have have a record rain fall when this hot spell come to a end ?.   MM  

    I’m still out in Greece for two days we had thunder storms above us , literally shaking the building . The tourist cafe’s and restaurants are all  winter mode wit all the outside seating covered. I’ve been painting and carrying out essential maintenance inside plus walking 7 kilometres a day to move my meds around my body. The evenings are spent eating out and having a few beers with the locals and bragging with pictures off my phone. They do not decoy at all just flightline shoot at migrating birds. No birds on the stubbles only feral.

    I’ve tried to reply to lots of topics but get bombed out by the server, be back soon , so leave a few for me!!!

  3. This was a surprise to me.

    in Talk From The Field

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    On 30/08/2023 at 22:52, bunny_blaster said:

    I’ve never worked my average out to be honest. Without sounding big headed i like to think I’m a fairly decent shot but I’m shooting 3 days a week on average. Let’s say out of 50 decoyed pigeons I’d like to see 45 of them on the floor. The day PC and I shot 800+ I took 520 of them for I think 625 shots, I remember this as I had 600 shells in the truck and used the last one with 499 down. I rang PC and told him I’d finished and what I was on and he walked a box of cartridges over to me saying you can’t finish on that number! My best cartridge to bird ratio I’ve ever done was 133 pigeons for 136 shots as that’s all the cartridges I had with me. It was small corner of a field of spring rape they had grazed off low and every shot was the same and nothing was more than 20 yards away

    I can vouch that Ben is a good all round shot on any platform. With respect to pigeon shooting he has “ Young Eyes” and see the target bird well before me. He loves to take high crossers which in turn give him a good eye.

    With respect to bird to cartridge ratio I have previously report my best day when I was requested to shoot a hole in barley below a sitting tree and to prevent crop damage due to picking up had to shoot the same shot over and over to drop them in the hole. The shooting position was at the far end of the field and I carried five boxes of shell and shot 124 birds, as I called it “tin can shooting”

    My shooting nemesis are corvids, it take me a few shots to get into them as I think they are slow and do not adjust to the right lead.

  5. To move or not to move

    in Talk From The Field

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    You can watch a field at different times of the day and they will favour different areas due to sun and wind. It depends on the times you are shooting.if you build up a good pattern they will decoy all day as they are fooled by the numbers I’ve had fifty decoy’s all fresh at times.

    Well done fore your result.

  7. This will be helpful to most pigeon shooters.

    in Sporting Shooting Videos

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    What a video, excellent information from the pigeon shooter. Some interesting ideas which goes to prove that you never stop learning. 
    The amount of pressure that birds are under now is unprecedented and you have to ring the changes to stay in front. Yes the old methods still work but you shoot fifty and spook fifty. My game dealers say that the amount of new shooters is always increasing but not the numbers shot overall. 
    JDog thanks for posting, well done.

  14. Who remembers this?

    in Off Topic

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    21 hours ago, ditchman said:

    i had the Eagle ...then i changed to the Valiant comic.....and once a mth i used to have a 1/- war mag.........(thats where i learnt to speak german fluently)...............

    "Zut....mein gott....die pig dog...gott um himmell.....swinehund..."

    Those section pictures in the centre pages kept me busy for hours, from Rockets to Battle Ships. 

  21. Shiny decoys

    in Pigeon Decoying Equipment

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    6 minutes ago, marsh man said:

    Same here , I have never heard of fullers earth method , and like you I try to restore or replace something to do decoying as cheap as possible , as for Crows you can also use a drop of the mat Black they use on stoves and fire places , something we often had a little left over after painting the ole cast iron fire place and surrounds in the cottages we done up.

    Grey primer for pigeons, boot polish for crows as they do shine naturally in the sunshine

  22. Canal Cyclists

    in Off Topic

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    As in my original post, I have done some research in the canal company rules. The 4 miles per hour speed limit was set to prevent horse abuse, it was kept in place when diesel engines were used to prevent bank erosion. The tow path was for people and horses, the barges would send the children ahead to prepare the locks, this meant that during the war years bike were use by adults who were seconded to help the movement of materials.

    My reason for the post was to highlight that the only area within a city/ town that I can let my dog off the lead is the tow path as cyclists now use the following:-

    Footpaths/ pavements

    Park Paths/ Park Grassy Areas

    Shopping Areas

    Tow Paths
     

    We have a local Primary School at which they carry out a Cycle proficiency Exam on our quiet housing estate, which is very quiet. Observing from the side line they are all over the road an unable to stop at junctions. They practice on the school playground prior to this road exam??
    The skills you learn as a cyclist prepare you for motoring on the road,  a friend daughter runs a driving school and has to teach young drivers who have never controls a wheeled vehicle , shopping trolley due to shopping on line, pram, no children. They all want to drive automatics as they do not understand gears. They drive a small car that would match my Velocette Venom ( flat out) 100 MPH. 
    my skills were obtained by a plank of wood, four pram wheels, a large bolt and washers for the cross axle and a piece of rope for steering. 
     

    As a throw away comment a friend who is a Police Officer informed me that the tow paths were used by county line groups to distribute medication as the bridges make ideal drop off points using electric bikes some get nudged into the water!!!!!!

    no paperwork!!
     

     

    RANT OVER

     

     

     

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