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a good hide is the main thing..make a good hide(roof if possible!), cover all skin and stay very very still

get under a flightline

 

sometimes a caller works with a couple of decoys

 

if you plan on shooting them in a wood get a couple of people to go into the wood with you, stay in the wood for a few mins then get 2 people to walk out(so the rooks see them leave), they cant count and when they see people leave they assume the woods is empty/safe and should return.

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That always makes me laugh about corvids - the most intelligent birds but they can't count!

 

i never believed it when the old bloke down the road told me, i just laughed at him.. then someone else mentioned it so i had to give it a go

 

done it many times now and it seems to work well!

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We shoot a lot of rooks on our shoot last year we shot over 400 in two weekends. As said befour the hide will need a roof we shoot through a three to four inch slot. A caller will help a lot as they are coming in the bigger the pattern the better I always have ten to twenty dead birds in the freezer. A Floater helps in the right place but a rotary is a no no for rooks. Good luck mate I find them far more rewarding than decoying pigeons. :good::good:

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we have permanent bale and pallet hides set up around a pig unit.

some huge rookeries on the neighbouring estate who do not allow any form of shooting so plenty to go at when they cross the boundary

 

dont shoot from the same place to many times...rooks wise up to it very quickly

 

if one or two notice you they will probably circle high above an dput off any more heading your way, a shot to disperse them is sometimes necessary

 

keeping well concealed is the main thing imo

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No never tried that I use either my 12g or 28g and try to build a pattern where my kill zone is straight in front of me but it dont always work like that. Try to stay in the hide as much as poss I take my .17 for triming up the walking wounded.

Love the idea of the 17 for 'trimming up the walking wounded'. Sounds like a sniper in range of a casualty department! :lol:

Trimming up the wounded sounds a bit like 'smoothing off' the ice cream tub! (see wife)

 

Spot on about keeping concealed - all corvids have excellent vision, be it colour, movement, depth perception or distance.

 

How does the 28g compare with the 12 btw?

 

Cheers

 

Duncan

 

PS using my hw100s I culled a couple of dozen rooks last year from their roost in decent tall trees:

 

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lost loads unfortunately for tall trees snagging them on the way down or in deep undergrowth :/ but such is life and the day was a memorable one!

 

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Taking 'little legs' in the spring for a rook shoot.

 

Duncan

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Love the idea of the 17 for 'trimming up the walking wounded'. Sounds like a sniper in range of a casualty department! :lol:

Trimming up the wounded sounds a bit like 'smoothing off' the ice cream tub! (see wife)

 

Spot on about keeping concealed - all corvids have excellent vision, be it colour, movement, depth perception or distance.

 

How does the 28g compare with the 12 btw?

 

Cheers

 

Duncan

The 28g is great its all I have used this game season I have tried 21 24 28 gram cartridges in it and they all do the job realy well and befour any one says anything the 28 gram dont kick at all although I am a big lad. I think it paterns better than a twelve I have killed some realy good pheasants as a back gun to someone using a 12g.

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That is very kind of you crouch valley and one I'd be happy to take you up on when possible - I'll pm when I'm going to be in your area :yes:

 

PW doesn't cease to amaze me - there's a lot of decent folk that 'as guns on 'ere! :D

 

Cheers,

 

Duncan

No prob mate give me a bit of notice if you can. If I see the rooks starting to come in i will give you a shout it normaly starts on the spring drilling I can be about sometimes in the week if that helps as I keeper the shoot.

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No prob mate give me a bit of notice if you can. If I see the rooks starting to come in i will give you a shout it normaly starts on the spring drilling I can be about sometimes in the week if that helps as I keeper the shoot.

Absolutely spot on, I'll give you as much notice as possible (movements are largely customer driven) for when I'm going to be 'in area'.

This time of year (and for the next couple of weeks-ish) is when I have the most time available for shooting and pest control, so it's nice to be able to 'make hay while the sun shines'. Come mid-summer, I barely have time to breathe, let alone squeeze a trigger! :lol:

 

Cheers

 

Duncan

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