A few at last

[fenboy]

With just two small permissions with only 1 rape field and pea field between them a decent bag has been hard to come by this year.

But I knew the rape had been sprayed off as I was sat in the field last week when the farmer came to do it !,there was a few floating about last week so I thought I would take another look ,so I went for a look yesterday afternoon and there were quite a few dropping in the tramlines and bare patches not hundreds but enough for a go today.

I set up in the field as there is no cover and was shooting over a large bare patch which failed to grow I also flagged off a couple of smaller patches.

up went the hide as best as I could ,ten dead birds out for decoys and the rotory only to fing the battery is knackered so had to make do with a flapper and a couple of floaters,the birds were very cagey but I managed 14 in the first hour with just 15 shots,I did not manage to keep that ratio ! the shooting was not easy with the birds coming from behind and very few decoying well but I kept ticking over with some very testing shooting ,I only managed 1 left / right as it was difficult to get a second shot and not drop the bird in the standing crop so I had to pass up a good few chances,but I was well chuffed to end with 81 down and 77 picked up for 119 shots I think that is my best bag for at least two years.

[Mightymariner]

That is a great bag in tricky circumstances. Loads of rape round here is sprayed off and shooting is nigh on impossible unless you can get near a bare patch. I have seen some swathed today that I hope will be good later in the week. Well done that man!

[deny essex]

Nice bag and a good shot ratio

[proTOM1]

Well done mate and good cart to kill