Blackpowder Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 After another cold 4 hours yesterday in the "cushat wood "with nothing doing after the right and left at a flock leaving the wood as I entered, on the journey home there was a sight for sore eyes. Pigeons feeding on winter wheat! Well no they appear to be on the surface remains of last seasons potatoe crop and the field literally blue with them. Just came back from spying on them again today and a steady stream of birds dropping in, unfortunately the owner of the land was not at home or I would be sitting out there right now having a go. Our Club shoots next door this afternoon so it will be interesting to see what the crop contents of any birds shot are, loads of oilseed rape around and very little interest in it by the pigeons. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popgun Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 After another cold 4 hours yesterday in the "cushat wood "with nothing doing after the right and left at a flock leaving the wood as I entered, on the journey home there was a sight for sore eyes. Pigeons feeding on winter wheat! Well no they appear to be on the surface remains of last seasons potatoe crop and the field literally blue with them. Just came back from spying on them again today and a steady stream of birds dropping in, unfortunately the owner of the land was not at home or I would be sitting out there right now having a go. Our Club shoots next door this afternoon so it will be interesting to see what the crop contents of any birds shot are, loads of oilseed rape around and very little interest in it by the pigeons. Blackpowder Shot some over potatoes last season they were full of chickweed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
utectok Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 Am I wrong or would george bush be proud of the topic title ? Maybe it was Dan Quayle. I can't remember! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_R Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Dan Quayle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 I was watching a huge flock on an old potatoe field on Thursday, not re-drilled though. We shot 212 over the last 2 days, mainly on barley stubbles but 1 bag of 55 came off clover. when you looked at the grass you couldn't make anything out but on closer inspection there were tiny clover leaves growing through. All smaller than a 5p. Cheers, Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackpowder Posted February 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Well despite the above field being the only one favoured by pigeons in this vicinity our Club Charity Shoot on the next door estate was a dead loss with only 22 pigeons for the 9 guns out. This despite one of the best roosting woods on the place being within a quarter mile of the ex potatoe field, and despite the fact that one of our most consistant Shots drew this wood the calm conditions lead to a very poor result. The Hitman and myself drew what appeared to be a very good , dense warm roosting wood and we did see a few pigeon - dropping in from a great height into the thickest part. Two for me and one for the hitman my second one falling in the middle of a duck pond where it still remains. Makes you wonder how far these pigeons were travelling to the potatoe field as the numbers seen there earlier did not appear to be roosting in the vicinity. Mark one of my friends had a go at ta nearby roost mid week and he picked up 17 all stuffed with potatoe mush. Blackpowder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted February 14, 2010 Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 iv had some good shooting over old spud fields,was out about 10 years ago and they kept coming in all afternoon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyboots Posted February 17, 2010 Report Share Posted February 17, 2010 2 mates shot 80 pigeons yesterday on a potatoe field in the local estate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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