Topgunners Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) I make regular trips to an office in a business park in Birmingham, just off J4 of the M6 near the NEC. Every time I go there, there's a constant stream of woodies flighting directly over the business park, I see literally thousands every time I go there, yet I've never heard anybody shooting them. Cat. Yesterday I had decided I was not even going to venture out until the sun broke through the rain clouds. I had to wait till 2.00pm before the rain stopped. I had also been clocking the pigeons flighting the M6 all week and went and set up on some rape under a flightline on the estate. The wind had started to pick up at a fast rate and the pigeons that were about had no real intentions of decoying. I persevered till 5.00pm for a total of 27 dropped and like other members' posts this week , found the majority of them full of acorns. The odd couple had a few rape leaves in amongst them. Sunday I arranged to meet One-Eyed Jack for an early start and after the annual free 1 hour lie-in we drove to Stratford for a reccy and found a few birds down on the clover . Pigeons and blackies. We set up in amongst some hay bales with the fairly strong wind blowing over the top of us. One -eyed also could not to wait to try out his new Winchester SX3 shotgun We had a couple of blackies almost straight away. Then they disappeared for a good half an hour before the next one. We only had 10 or so come in low to the deeks and most of the shots wre high, sporting ones and we eventually ended up with 27 blackies and a MEGA-HIGH Magpie that got caught in our crossfire. Did not have 1 wood pigeon return or fly past us all day. SX3 now truly christened. A cracking twin rainbow appeared in front of us for a few seconds. Very bright colours. We saw 3 very large skeins (about 250 birds in all ) of geese fly past us 2 fields away; so we will be having a go next Saturday morning for them. The pigeons round most of my permissions all seem to be sitting up in the woods at the moment. Hopefully they will be down on the O.S.R soon. Dave K Dave K Edited October 25, 2009 by Topgunners Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Well done dave but think we need a few frosts before they hit the osr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Blimey,we are still in a recession............................. you dont even get a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proTOM1 Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Nice shooting mate still got alot of birds on some drilling and stubbles here and there just starting on the rape but not to much as yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted October 26, 2009 Report Share Posted October 26, 2009 Great shooting mate Great pics too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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