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I usually have a fair idea of where a likely shoot may come from. With the stop/start harvest, i wasn't too sure what to expect. There's plenty of stubbles to choose from and standing beans are proving to be attractive recently. I started my search, but i could only find small pockets of pigeons. I was not going to bother setting up unless i thought there may be a chance of at least 30. I checked countless wheat stubbles. I checked some old rape stubbles. Nothing. I carried on and on and i eventually found a small flightline going onto a barley stubble. This was handy, as it was going to be the last farm i checked. I really couldn't be bothered to drive another 30 miles in the other direction to check more farms. Time was pressing on. It was nearly 2pm. I hastily threw out a load of shell decoys and a magnet. I had 4 pigeons down within the first minute. Things went quiet and i considered going home with the score at 13. I stayed. It picked up. The birds decoyed superbly. They homed in on the rotary and many birds were routine. I did not alter the pattern or have a pick up at any point-the pigeons laid where they were killed. I did start to wonder how many i might get. At times i was shooting as fast as i could reload. I called it a day at 6pm. I had 104 pigeons. By the time i got home i had travelled over 80 miles. I suppose it was worth it in the end.