Good day on wheat stubble - pigeon and blacks

[wids]

Today after feeding the pheasants in the morning I saw a fair few crows and pigeon on some wheat stubble - had some time after lunch so had a crack. I did my old trick of setting up crow deeks on one side and pigeon on the other (I had the hide near a bush that was on on a ditch that divided the field up so easy to put crows that side and pigeons other side).

 

Had a great afternoon picking up 106 (49 pigeon 57 crows of which about 20 were rooks/jackdaws but kept trying to pick out the crows!) all for 154 shots including 12 Left and Rights - Most left and rights were achieved when birds commited to the deeks although and odd one where I got a good pigeon on the flightline and then felled the pesky carrion crow as he tried to leave the decoys but not quick enough!

 

Now this is about my usual form sometimes tad better sometimes tad worse depending if the pigeons are decoying of just flighting past. Today was a mixture so thought I shot well with some nice long crossers and high birds taken from the flightline.

 

But if say 90% of the birds were commited to decoys I would expect to do better than todays ratio.

 

What does anyone else think on shot:kill?

[soreshoulder]

dont get too caught up on shot to kill ratio, get out and enjoy yourself, on a bad day i shoot 1 - 3 sometimes and get angry wirth myself and start thinking up my ratio but i tend to tell myself that i am still enjoying it so it doesnt really matter

[Fatcatsplat]

If i started counting i'd probably give up!!

 

Some days you get 1 for 1 and other days you're knee deep in empty cases for ****** all reward

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

You are nearly as good as me with round to bird ratio.

 

Regards OTH

[JonnyR]

You are nearly as good as me with round to bird ratio.

 

Regards OTH

Praise indeed!

[yickdaz]

we often count our empty shells after a day when we both feel we have shot well and we are impressed but on the days we felt we haven;t shot that great we just count the bag and say that was a good day 50 in the bag thats a good bag in anyones book..but i remember when i was 16 shooting shooting over stubble with the old fella i didn;t have much money to buy loads of shells i took 1 box with me and shot 23.don;t think i have ever matched that since and i;m 34 now. closest i have come was this year shooting on me own and picked 88 for 103 carts on a flightline with some decoying.so your ratio is very good

[Swamp Beast]

Today after feeding the pheasants in the morning I saw a fair few crows and pigeon on some wheat stubble - had some time after lunch so had a crack. I did my old trick of setting up crow deeks on one side and pigeon on the other (I had the hide near a bush that was on on a ditch that divided the field up so easy to put crows that side and pigeons other side).

 

Had a great afternoon picking up 106 (49 pigeon 57 crows of which about 20 were rooks/jackdaws but kept trying to pick out the crows!) all for 154 shots including 12 Left and Rights - Most left and rights were achieved when birds commited to the deeks although and odd one where I got a good pigeon on the flightline and then felled the pesky carrion crow as he tried to leave the decoys but not quick enough!

 

Now this is about my usual form sometimes tad better sometimes tad worse depending if the pigeons are decoying of just flighting past. Today was a mixture so thought I shot well with some nice long crossers and high birds taken from the flightline.

 

But if say 90% of the birds were commited to decoys I would expect to do better than todays ratio.

 

What does anyone else think on shot:kill?

 

r u wanting praise?

who cares shot/ratio' a good day out is a good day out. put your trumpet away son

[Tis1979]

Today after feeding the pheasants in the morning I saw a fair few crows and pigeon on some wheat stubble - had some time after lunch so had a crack. I did my old trick of setting up crow deeks on one side and pigeon on the other (I had the hide near a bush that was on on a ditch that divided the field up so easy to put crows that side and pigeons other side).

 

Had a great afternoon picking up 106 (49 pigeon 57 crows of which about 20 were rooks/jackdaws but kept trying to pick out the crows!) all for 154 shots including 12 Left and Rights - Most left and rights were achieved when birds commited to the deeks although and odd one where I got a good pigeon on the flightline and then felled the pesky carrion crow as he tried to leave the decoys but not quick enough!

 

Now this is about my usual form sometimes tad better sometimes tad worse depending if the pigeons are decoying of just flighting past. Today was a mixture so thought I shot well with some nice long crossers and high birds taken from the flightline.

 

But if say 90% of the birds were commited to decoys I would expect to do better than todays ratio.

 

What does anyone else think on shot:kill?

48 misses in one day might be time to give up shooting! Try darts your closer and the board don't move.

[Cranfield]

An excellent afternoons shooting, very nice.

 

Your shot to kill ratio was about 60%, but that doesn't mean a lot as it all depends on how testing the birds were.

Only you know how good , or bad it was.

[left & right]

Today after feeding the pheasants in the morning I saw a fair few crows and pigeon on some wheat stubble - had some time after lunch so had a crack. I did my old trick of setting up crow deeks on one side and pigeon on the other (I had the hide near a bush that was on on a ditch that divided the field up so easy to put crows that side and pigeons other side).

 

Had a great afternoon picking up 106 (49 pigeon 57 crows of which about 20 were rooks/jackdaws but kept trying to pick out the crows!) all for 154 shots including 12 Left and Rights - Most left and rights were achieved when birds commited to the deeks although and odd one where I got a good pigeon on the flightline and then felled the pesky carrion crow as he tried to leave the decoys but not quick enough!

 

Now this is about my usual form sometimes tad better sometimes tad worse depending if the pigeons are decoying of just flighting past. Today was a mixture so thought I shot well with some nice long crossers and high birds taken from the flightline.

 

But if say 90% of the birds were commited to decoys I would expect to do better than todays ratio.

 

What does anyone else think on shot:kill?

 

 

It doesent realy matter mate aslong as you enjoyed yourself sounded like a good day!

[wids]

r u wanting praise?

who cares shot/ratio' a good day out is a good day out. put your trumpet away son

 

Not at all I would shoot clays if all I cared about was numbers and ratios - its just I was interested to see what other people are roughly at as its easy to think 'Wow great day he had etc and must be loads of pigeons about what am I doing wrong with my decoying' well in fact it can simply be that they hit a far higher %.

 

1 man may take 120 shots for a 100 another man 300 so its not often you fire at 300 pigeons in a day for this man to get to his 100 (This would be based on single shots!)

 

Just interested

[yickdaz]

Not at all I would shoot clays if all I cared about was numbers and ratios - its just I was interested to see what other people are roughly at as its easy to think 'Wow great day he had etc and must be loads of pigeons about what am I doing wrong with my decoying' well in fact it can simply be that they hit a far higher %.

 

1 man may take 120 shots for a 100 another man 300 so its not often you fire at 300 pigeons in a day for this man to get to his 100 (This would be based on single shots!)

 

Just interested

well said

[pigeonblasterian]

What does anyone else think on shot:kill?

Does not mean a thing it depends how easy the shots are.