hankook1 Posted July 24, 2010 Report Share Posted July 24, 2010 hi guy's got myself a beretta a303 like new only had a few cartridges thru it made 1989 it's a superbly nice hardly used example, so i thought i would take it out straight away and test to test it out so i did, done a recon trip on 2 of my shoots and found a fairly large amount of pigeon activity on one of the seed pea fields not yet harvested so quite a difficult situation for recovering dead birds but decided it would be a great opportunity to get aquainted with the 303. so i set up at about 1500 hrs and managed to pick up 56 pigeons by 1900 hrs and the gun was absolutely faultless one of the best 12 gauge s/a guns i have ever shot if not the best well pleased.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted July 25, 2010 Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 The pigeons have left all the pea fields i shoot. They are now on cereals and rape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankook1 Posted July 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 The pigeons have left all the pea fields i shoot. They are now on cereals and rape. hi motty, this farmer has only started combining today and the seed pea's are the first fields he's doing,he hasn't got any laid crops anywhere although there have been a few landing in the standing crops barley & rape, so i think as the pea's when fully podded are close to the ground they have been there first choice as they can easily walk around and take them from the pods as they open easily when ripe regards alf.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted July 26, 2010 Report Share Posted July 26, 2010 Most of the peas i shoot over are vining peas. They can get at them easy enough, they just aren't interested anymore. Some of the later drilled fields ( drilled early june) may still be worth looking at later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hankook1 Posted July 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2010 Most of the peas i shoot over are vining peas. They can get at them easy enough, they just aren't interested anymore. Some of the later drilled fields ( drilled early june) may still be worth looking at later on. hi motty' sure thing the only problem with pigeon shooting now for a few weeks is that now harvest has started there will be so much food around for the birds to feed on with all the stubble fields and then the drillings after, they are going to be harder to keep in one place long enough to shoot a good bag unless there are several guns all shooting various nieghbouring fields to keep them moving around regards alf.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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