anser2 Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 (edited) I had a look aroung my pigeon shooting fields this morning. For the past week 300 had been feeding on a clover field and sure enough there was 100 on the field this morning. Before setting up a checked out a number of recently drilled fields. They held a scattering of birds , but the clover field looked best. On returning to the clover the pigeons were back on it in bigger numbers. But 3 hours later I had just one pigeon. The birds never came back. So packed up and returned to a drilled field that held birds in the morning. Not a sniff of a bird on it , but I thought I would set up as its close to a regular flight line. The other day my game gun went wrong so I was using my Browning gold semi auto. Laying it down I set out the decoys and returned to find the dog had dug out a rabbit hole at the back of the hide and covered the gun with sand including the open chamber. I tried to strip the gun down , but the barrels would not come out of the lock so i had to clean the breach \ chambers out as best as I could. After a lot of fiddling about I got the breach to work but the magazine was jammed. I was left with a single shot gun.While the action was not fast a steady flow of pigeons came into the decoys and I ended up with 43 ( might have been 10 - 12 more if the magazine was not jammed) , plus 8 crows and a magpie. So despite the bad start and hassel with the gun it did not turn out such a bad day. Edited March 22, 2010 by anser2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proTOM1 Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 Sounds worth it in the end ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docholiday Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 (edited) well yesterday and today I got soaked for a sum total of 14 pigeon, now thats tuff shooting, exsp as I have a weeks holiday and it looks like its going to rain all week doc Edited March 23, 2010 by docholiday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebarrels Posted March 23, 2010 Report Share Posted March 23, 2010 well yesteurday and today I got soaked for a sum total of 14 pigeon, now thats tuff shooting, exsp as I have a weeks holiday and it looks like its going to rain all weekdoc Me too mate,last day at work 2morrow,then 4 days off,shooting planned Thursday and Friday,but weather looking shocking BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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