Sprinter Posted March 22, 2011 Report Share Posted March 22, 2011 Set up on a bean field today, just drilled not yet rolled. All went well had a few and the shooting was accurate at one point was 5 for 6 pokes and feeling very smug. However very fustrating to see the blue hoardes piling into an adjacent rape field that wasn't mine nothing i could do could drag them off it, even resorted to the old fieldcraft trick of lobbing a dead bird out of the hide into the pattern when birds were in the air. New plan formulated for tomorrow and a new hide built on the boundary about 150yards closer to the rape, if nothing else the odd shot might keep them off the rape. If all else fails it's down to see the landowner for permission on the rape, shouldn't be a problem permission-wise but might put a few noses out of joint locally so will try to avoid that if i can :yp: Grand total was 10 and a jackdaw for 17 shots. Packed up due to the arrival of the roller early afternoon and had a scout round elsewhere. It seemed a similar story with the majority of bird seeming to prefer rape. Still there is always tomorrow for them to change their minds. Never seen so much bean in the ground locally, there is quite a bit of failed rape being dragged up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaxiDriver Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 If you approach the farmer and he can see birds on the crops.........good luck to you, as for noses out of joint ? The farmer saw you shooting his neighbouring fields and asked you/offered his fields as no one was there at the time you were. Makes me spit, people who want all the land as their permissions yet don't want to get out there regularly, just on the weekend then they're not seen all week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 The best time to get permission is when there are birds on the fields.... fill yer boots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprinter Posted March 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 Nothing doing today, hardly a bird in the air. Checked all over the place and saw precisly the square root of naff all. Set up anyway for a couple of hours, missed one bird that decoyed perfectly and poleaxed one i had no right at all to expect to hit Re putting noses out of joint and ruffling feathers. I know very well who shoot these fields and i spend a great deal of time with them and derive a proportion of my beating and game shooting from them. I would not like to upset that particular apple cart for a few pigeon; although i know the landowner would be very unlikely to refuse permission. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retromlc Posted March 23, 2011 Report Share Posted March 23, 2011 i picked up another large farm today,Farmer actually knows me via sister in law and asked me why I hadn't approached him sooner,i told him i'd been warned off by locals who want all the land for themselves,he pointed out that it's his land and if they don't like it then he's happy to remove their right to shoot. so all I can shoot now.when i get established I'll hopefully be able to get some others on it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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