Topgunners Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 (edited) On Saturday after the "dead bird out of the sky" incident; I drove to another farm and sat watching a field that was blue and black with birds. They were dropping in all over the field and I went for a walk about to see why. The gale force winds were blowing the soil like sandstorms right across to a wooded area. There were pink seeds all over the top of the field. Thousands of them. My Birthday or what? I sat watching for an hour or so and then decided the only safe hedge to shoot from was right up the top end of the field by a house. I drove up to the house to ask permission if I could drive my jeep down through their back fields to my chosen spot. The son came out and after a lot of argy-bargying he decided to allow me access. I had chatted to him for over an hour and by then it was too late to set up. Tomorrow Sunday I arrived at the same field and there were hundreds walking around picking up the now exposed seeds but hardly any wind at all and blowing in a different direction from the day before. I set up my deeks and had birds coming back in intermittently for an hour or two but a lot of birds were dropping down in the far corner of the field. I rang up a couple of mates to see if they fancied a session. One arrived with a shotgun and the other with his .22 Rimmy. I gave them a choice of where to go and off they went. I could see the Rimmy shooter way up the field to my right , laying down in the long grass. We shot steady till 4.00pm when the birds just switched off and when we met back at the jeep the tally was Myself - 38 pigeons 5 Rooks 2 Jackdaws 2nd Shottie -34 Pigeons Rimmy - 38 Pigeons (snap) What a brilliant achievement for D on the Rimmy as he said that he would have shot the 100; bar the fact that our shotguns were scaring the birds off just as they had landed. Total 110 Pigeons Dave K Edited October 15, 2009 by Topgunners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 Sounds like a top day was had by all! What no pictures? Standards are dropping mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 Good work as usual Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 Great shooting guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted October 5, 2009 Report Share Posted October 5, 2009 Nice one, good shooting that man with the .22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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