Cookiemonsterandmerlin. Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Some of you guys may have notice this before I have witinessed on many days out. The birds are very high and when all of a sudden tumble from a couple of hundred feet up hit the deck and jink and weave . Do you think this is due to being over shot or maybe its the farmer running a couple of rifle rounds over them??. Regards over the hill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastSussexLad Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I think its just very committed pigeons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I think they are just enjoying the wind just like you or I would. Geese do similar when coming into land with others on the ground, or if your decoy set up is really good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deny essex Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Boy racer's of the pigeon world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I saw something similar a couple of weeks ago, garyb was waiting patiently with his 20 bore for the beaters to flush the pheasants, when this woodie shot across the wood in front, straight for him, it was going like a bat out of hell with the wind up its rear end, I reckon about 70 yards up, gary swung through and literally poleaxed it with the little 20g, you should have seen that one tumble..........like a housebrick.!! It was no fluke, on the very next drive, he did the same on a cock pheasant, it was so high it had it's oxygen mask on, I thought, "He's never going to kill that one".........boom, one shot, down it came, what a corker..!! Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malkiserow Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I saw something similar a couple of weeks ago, garyb was waiting patiently with his 20 bore for the beaters to flush the pheasants, when this woodie shot across the wood in front, straight for him, it was going like a bat out of hell with the wind up its rear end, I reckon about 70 yards up, gary swung through and literally poleaxed it with the little 20g, you should have seen that one tumble..........like a housebrick.!! It was no fluke, on the very next drive, he did the same on a cock pheasant, it was so high it had it's oxygen mask on, I thought, "He's never going to kill that one".........boom, one shot, down it came, what a corker..!! Cat. this thread needs videos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 Cheers Cat Sadly no pics or videos though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gyp Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 There are breeds of pigeons that do things like that called "Tumblers". I have some of these Rollers once, they are amazing, they drop 30feet at 40mile an hour.!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 garyb was waiting patiently with his 20 bore for the beaters to flush the pheasants, when this woodie shot across the wood in front, straight for him, it was going like a bat out of hell with the wind up its rear end, I reckon about 70 yards up, gary swung through and literally poleaxed it with the little 20g,Cat. Shot at a Pigeon before the first game bird? Tut tut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 No, somebody further down the line had already shot at a hen bird. We observe strictly correct etiquette on all of our shoots. Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 No, somebody further down the line had already shot at a hen bird. We observe strictly correct etiquette on all of our shoots. Cat. Glad to hear it. We had an interesting species under the 'various' category on my shoot the other week. Somebody (me) attempt to drive our new (well new to us it's a circa 1980 ex army truck) gun bus managed to prang a Range Rover with it. I tried to make the case that it was only pricked but everybody else voted for it to go in the bag. As you can imagine I will be reminded of this until somebody else does something more stupid! Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFC Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 (edited) There are breeds of pigeons that do things like that called "Tumblers". I have some of these Rollers once, they are amazing, they drop 30feet at 40mile an hour.!! There is a national and worldwide club for this breed of Pigeon and they hold competitions for them. I used to be a glass engraver and I engraved the trophies for the societies. http://www.allenglandrollerclub.co.uk/ http://www.allenglandrollerclub.co.uk/apps...ham-dexters-kit Edited November 27, 2009 by KFC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyb Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Shot at a Pigeon before the first game bird? Tut tut :unsure: "Pigeon shooting" before the drive starts is a pet hate of mine... The drive had already begun when this woody mooched past my peg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al4x Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 I hate it as well and especially when people do it on a partridge day, however we have had beaters days where you all bung a tenner in the pot and it goes to whoever shoots the first pigeon now that can be hard to resist. The birds that are high and fall down as though poleaxed show you're lead is spot on and can often just be one pellet to the head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hitman Posted November 27, 2009 Report Share Posted November 27, 2009 Sometimes when pigeons are looking at your decoys , they will put a couple of jinks in before they commit themselves. This is the pigeons trying to get the birds on the ground to show some movement. Hope this helps . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midge28 Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Some of you guys may have notice this before I have witinessed on many days out.The birds are very high and when all of a sudden tumble from a couple of hundred feet up hit the deck and jink and weave . Do you think this is due to being over shot or maybe its the farmer running a couple of rifle rounds over them??. Regards over the hill hia, i use ta breed and race racing pigeons for a few years and i think the pigeons you see that tumble are actually young pigeons, they seem to do this fast flying and tumbling act up to a year old then they stop doing it , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev 1 Posted November 28, 2009 Report Share Posted November 28, 2009 Them tumbling pigeons are better than them fainting goats... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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