proTOM1 Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Was due to be game shooting but decided to give it a miss so headed for some rape where the farmer had told me good numbers were using . My problem was like many others have found lots of rape nearby so was not expecting much ,managed to contact the next farm over so flagged his rape the best i could but with more rape of another farm nearby it was still going to hard .I was setup just before 8am near a small spiney on the edge of a ditch the rape was direct drilled and poor .I setup 12 decoys and the rotary no set pattern was used .Birds started to show at first light but none stopped to look at the coys ,it was an hour till the first birds decoyed and of course i missed but soon had 4 others decoy and bagged a double by 10.30 i had 12 down but was seeing loads heading over the far wood to another field behind . By 1pm every bird was going there then i heard a shot from that direction the birds lifted and headed back my way and a few dropped in . As it turned out the farmer next door had called 1 of his shooters to have ago and for the rest of the afternoon up till 3.30pm the birds were bounced between us and we both had a good day . I packed up with a bag of 68 birds so as happy with that after a hard start ! Out tomorrow so hoping for some more fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Great write up, and all turned out good in the end. I find rape shooting on the weekend can be a little better as more shooters are out bouncing the birds around Let us know how you get on tomorrow as well. Obviously never made coming up over Xmas to bring my mates dad, unfortunately I was laid up in bed for most of it and he's gone back now. I'm sure there'll be another time. Edited January 16, 2012 by Cosd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dobbin66 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Sounds like u had a great day mate let us know how u get on tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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proTOM1 Posted January 17, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Great write up, and all turned out good in the end. I find rape shooting on the weekend can be a little better as more shooters are out bouncing the birds around Let us know how you get on tomorrow as well. Obviously never made coming up over Xmas to bring my mates dad, unfortunately I was laid up in bed for most of it and he's gone back now. I'm sure there'll be another time. I did not have any joy myself today but decoying mad had 7 on rape just no wind at all today . I had a good drive about and spotted a good 1000 on fresh beet tops and a good 500 on some fresh drilling ,lots of drilling going in now round me just to early as still unable to shoot alot of ground due to game shoots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE MEK Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 had the same problem yesterday, all the birds flighting onto a neighbouring farms rape going to speak to farmer on thursday see if i can put a banger rope on his field and flag it as its a fair size Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 You did very well Tom ,concidering the lean times at the moment on the rape . Well done . I would settle for half that number at the moment . Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretman_2009 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 well done good bag in the end thanks to the other gunner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpk Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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