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Hi although its short notice looking for 3 guns to shoot pigeon over stubbles £35 per gun the venue is pe13 4jq Cambs cheers Fenny Hi its tommorow large numbers showing cheers Fenny

We were called out on Friday to try and reduce the number of crows on the wheat stubble and following the discussions on this forum that the birds would not decoy we went back to basics. We started by watching the field for fifteen minutes checking the flightine for the crows and also the pigeon. They were going between two oak trees in the middle of the field so we set up on the edge of the one tree, we had three defrosted crows and twelve pigeon and put them out on spikes I had a reed crow call and that was that. We started to pull the crows and jackdaws in straight away and could get them the land in the pattern also the pigeon started to decoy straight into the decoys on the stubble. We had the crows to the left of the hide and the pigeon to the right. We kept putting out decoys till we had used fifty spikes and after that brought the shot birds in the hide.By making the pattern look as natural as we could they kept on decoying. We finished at 17.00 as the rain was coming in and picked one hundred and thirty six pigeon and eightysix crows. Saturday saw us on the same farm on the barley stubble we set up with ten crows from the day before and twelve pigeon we put the magnet out with two crows on it, to the left of the hide and the pigeon to the right with two flyers in the pattern at 10.00. I called the crows but they would not come near and the pigeon would fly over us high not attempting to decoy. I took the magnet down and called three crows into range and shot them. We noticed then that the flightline for the pigeon was going to the right of us to another farm, so we packed up at 11.45 and moved the the other farm only to find another shooter on the rape stubble. We had a chat to the farmer and decided the go on another rape stubble field at the other end of the farm as the farmer said that he had worked it the other day and it had loads of birds on it.So we set up with the magnet and normal set up. We could hear the other shooter in the distance matching us shot for shot at first but then we had the first of two thunder storms pass us. The question was should we be out here under a metal brolly with two lumps of iron in our hands in a thunder storm??? The birds would not decoy and we had to move things around alot the get them to play ball but we ended the day with two hundred and fourteen pick up which was great . We started the day saying that we could only take two hundred at the max due to freezer room todays shooting made the total 1610 in the freezers at home. We caught up with the other shooter back at the farm and he had picked up one hundred and thirty five.