Pykie Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 The farmer phoned up Friday night, saying the corvids on the pig fields were building in number, and he was worried with the corn starting to ripen, they would soon start hammering it. Two corn fields bordered the field we set up, and having shot the field a few times, knew the lie of the land and set up two patterns forty yards apart. Dad under the shelter of three sitty trees to my left, myself under a thick clump of bush and the pigs in the middle amongst the decoys. The shooting was steady, the crows committing nicely. I was using my European crow call to devastating effect, pulling crows and rooks off their flight paths two or three fields away, to us, unfortunately for me the majority had to pass Dad first before they came into my range and several bit the dust from his 12 bore auto before I even got my gun to bear! Typical!!! During a quiet spell, I sat looking at the piglets running about in the grass and a cock pheasant strutting up the path towards me, when I heard rustling coming from the hedge I was against. Turning, I saw a stoat sneaking across a gap in the foliage, pushing an egg along with his nose. I have never shot a stoat before and the heart was fair pumping as I eased the 20 bore up slowly and took aim at the slim predator. I fired and he disappeared from view. I had a look and saw a lot of blood and a pheasant egg lying amongst the leaves, and there on the ground lay the stoat, very dead. Obviously he had just raided a pheasant nest but that was the end of that particular thief! We carried on shooting til about six, when the corvids really did ease off and we picked up what we could recover from the jowls of the hungry pigs!! Alot of the corvids were lost in the corn but we counted them down with clickers. In the end we had a total of 103 mixed carrion crows, rooks and a handful of jackdaws, 5 pigeons, a squirrel and the stoat made for a great and memorable day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Good Shooting. Well Done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy dog Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Top shooting mate. I only dream of crow numbers like that. Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 Good result lads on the crow bashing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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