Rape stubble

[skinny]

Had a session on our first field of rape that has been cut yesterday. Its around 60 acres and has a mild bank to it. Myself and a friend created a hide with two ghost cammo nets setup in a corner of the field which had a large amounts of brambles around it. The pattern was of a horeshoe shape around 20 yards wide made from 12 full body decoys and 8 shell decoys. It included 1 flapper and a magnet with hypaflaps on it.

 

We drove out in the landy and a few birds flew off but not as many as we had hoped for, although as we setup 2 birds flew into the pattern while we were still getting ready, so things looked good. It was 12.00 and there was a good wind behind us, the day stay started slow with 1's and 2's coming in and picked up around 3.00 with a steady few coming in. We had a few large groups of around 6 to 8 come in and some very challenging shots. A couple came so close to the hide i could have netted them. By around 4.15 we had 26 in the bag and alot of misses and then they started to flair off, after a few pairs and quite alot of singles flairing we removed the magnet and flapper but to no real avail. The sky's started to empty so we packed up at 5.00. This is our first session on the pigeons and with another few hundred acres of rape left to be cut things look promising. I used my Beretta A303 (cheers Lez) and Paul used a Mossberg pump.

 

We were happy but think we need a bit of practice as the bag should have been over 50, 21 picked up and 5 lost in the surrounding crop.

[mossy835]

well done good shooting

[yickdaz]

well done havin a look tomorra meself to see if rape has been cut.

[islandmartin]

Decent bag there