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the day started with me bagging up two freezers full of pigeons loading them into the car then a 80 mile round trip to game dealers and back I was back home for 1pm quick bite to eat then out again looking for pigeons I tried my local farm only 10 mins away first, 3 fields on this one one was standing barley another barley stubble and the last barley drilling very unusual combination anyhow the farmer was just finishing the stubble field whilst I sat and watched a few birds flighting about all over the place no set line or field, the farmer had finished the field off and was about to start the standing field he came over to me waved me over to him and said the birds had been on the drilling the day before from 3pm onwards, its always a late farm this it can kick off big time late afternoon a few birds starting to show interest in the drilling so picked my spot and set up was in place by 2.30pm , hard work to start with until I got the rotary going then they showed more interest in the decoys and added dead birds as I went the shooting was steady the old fella joined me about 3.45pm I had about 20 down by then we kept shooting till 5.45pm lost about 8 birds in the wood behind us so about 95 birds down but picked 86 woodies and 1 jackdaw
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shot on the same field i shot last sun when i got 700 minus 673 i was out at 9.30 this morning to have a look at some rape, to see if any were knocking about for a shoot either tomorrow or sun, already planned a day with me dad on the drilling today so it was just a bit of recon and as luck would have it there was about 400 on 2 fields on the rape with birds coming and going so its worth a pop anyhow met up with the old fella at the farm were the drilling was, straight away we could see birds flighting watched for a while picked a spot and set up at the face of a wood the birds were crossing over and going in to put decoys and rotary out, birds came for a look straight away but wouldn,t commit, we twigged the problem the decoys and rotary needed to be further out from the wood to give them more room to come in it worked from then on almost everything came straight in as we added dead birds to the pattern, put the turbo flapper out as well for little extra movement, it was erractic shooting all afternoon sometimes hectic, slow at others and both of us didn,t really shoot to the level we know we are capable of should of put another 10 birds in the bag between us but who cares it was a good session,and nice bit of shooting...picked up 50 woodies and 5 ferals
