Always end up flighting

[unapalomablanca]

Am i the only one to find decoying frustrating with most occasions ending up as a time wasting excercise with few birds. Most of my shooting involves late afternoon flighting where there are flight lines with lots of trees. I seem to get many more targets, maybe not always easy but for me a much more fulfilling few hours. I have tried every decoy trick in the book and every aid and tip and my scores are never as much as flighting. I read some of these scores that people post and find a lot of it hard to believe. Any comments welcome!

[Degalle79]

I started at the pigeons in may this year and have been out about 10 times. I started off roost shooting, shooting anywhere from 6-12 birds in an evening session. Then i started putting deeks out on laid barley or wheat and in small sessions was shooting anywhere from 10 - 15 birds. I got my first day on but barley stubble on saturday and shot 50 pigeons and 5 crows and if i had of been allowed into the field before lunch time i reckon i could have shot 100. This is just my experience. The stubble is beside my house so i was watching and knew where to go so it turned out to be a good flight line as well as the first feld to be cut around here. Went out tonight at 6pm on strange ground with a friend, stubble just cut today........not a bird, not one. To be honest i think the boys on this forum have it down to a tee, its all about recon!

[Cranfield]

If you are shooting over crops the pigeons are feeding on, then you should be able to decoy them some of the time.

There are times when its very difficult, but there are times when it seems to be easy.

 

Find where the birds are feeding consistently and thats where you need to be.

Decoying feeding birds should give you more shooting than flighting them.

[carrion crow]

I started at the pigeons in may this year and have been out about 10 times. I started off roost shooting, shooting anywhere from 6-12 birds in an evening session. Then i started putting deeks out on laid barley or wheat and in small sessions was shooting anywhere from 10 - 15 birds. I got my first day on but barley stubble on saturday and shot 50 pigeons and 5 crows and if i had of been allowed into the field before lunch time i reckon i could have shot 100. This is just my experience. The stubble is beside my house so i was watching and knew where to go so it turned out to be a good flight line as well as the first feld to be cut around here. Went out tonight at 6pm on strange ground with a friend, stubble just cut today........not a bird, not one. To be honest i think the boys on this forum have it down to a tee, its all about recon!

 

I agree you cant do enough recon, I have sat for hours just watching bird flights (no gun) just me and the dog.