Topgunners Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Hi All. Last week I had a phone call from one of my farmers saying that his feed barns were getting battered by hundreds of crows and could I pop along and thin a few out for them. I said we would come early saturday morning. Unfortunately my mate had to work till 9.00am and so I told him to join me when he could. SATURDAY I arrived about 6.45am and as I drove into the farm about 600-700 rooks and jackies lifted like a great big cloud. They were everywhere. On the roof, in the shed and on the grass field nearby. I parked along side a huge stack of hay and watched for half an hour or so before deciding to set up along a hedge row,opposite the rookery in the woods; with the wind coming from left to right.The only problem was the searing sun was in my face. After a few minutes I had shot 3 and promptly put them onto our homemade spreader sticks. The birds came in steady, every few minutes and by the time my mate rang me at 10.30 I had shot 44 mixed. He arrived with the boys and I told the boys to set up 25 yards along from my hide. Alan joined me and we shot in turn in the hot sunshine all day and as I had shot without a tea-shirt on , I caught the sun a wee bit. . We had shot 207 between us, with myself doing a personal 102 bag. We picked up 168, as the rest had fell into some wheat crop field behind us. WORD OF WARNING TO ALL. Don't buy any WEETABIX for at least 6 months; it might just be ROOKABIX. :lol: SUNDAY Only myself and Alan were out today and first point of call was the same farm as yesterday, just to have a look. Only 50 or so flying about, so we shot over to Warwick for a look at some farms and found a few on some cut grass. We set up and after 2 hours they stopped coming in. We shot 37 and then decided to drive to Leicester to see a farmer that had just drilled(rather lately) a 70acre field of wheat. As I drove into the farm, the farmer pulled up in his tractor with a feed bucket attached and explained that he was just going to feed the cows and would be half an hour or so. We started chatting about any other problems he might have when all of a sudden he shouted at me " did you just see that ******** car up there" He was looking up the road and then shot off like a bat out of hell. I started my jeep up and chased after him. Just at the junction was a derelict barn and we saw the tractor had driven into the gap in the field. I jumped out, just as the farmer was walking back and asked him what was happening.I then saw his son running across the field towards us and the farmer said a car was in front of the tractor; and was manouevering to get out. A courting couple had sneaked in for a bonk and he must have crapped himself when he looked in the rear mirror and saw a dirty big bucket coming at him. me blocking his escape in my jeep and some other geezer running at them from another angle. that will teach them. (mind you the young blondie with him was fit) lol Excitement over, we packed up with a total of 38 birds for the day. Then, we had an hour and a half on the rabbits on the way home. managed 11 total Top weekend 245 birds and 11 rabbits. HOT!HOT!HOT! weather. HOT!HOT!HOT! blondie. Dave K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smig4373 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Great shooting Mr K...top result... :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Sounds like you had an entertaining time. Good shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.philmypower. Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Awsome write up Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 nice going fellas, excellent write up too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Good shooting lads and a good wtite up aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykie Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Good read and good shooting!! Remember to add them to the corvid tally in vermin control Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POPPY-72 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 excellent read :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipmiester Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 great stuff there pal good read too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebarrels Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Top bag fellas :good: BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrie0 Posted May 30, 2012 Report Share Posted May 30, 2012 Well done Topgunners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reece Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Wow. That's a lot of birds. The most we ever got at once was 28 one day last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Well done Dave Gide shooting and nice write up to! Cos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted June 5, 2012 Report Share Posted June 5, 2012 Hi All. Last week I had a phone call from one of my farmers saying that his feed barns were getting battered by hundreds of crows and could I pop along and thin a few out for them. I said we would come early saturday morning. Unfortunately my mate had to work till 9.00am and so I told him to join me when he could. SATURDAY I arrived about 6.45am and as I drove into the farm about 600-700 rooks and jackies lifted like a great big cloud. They were everywhere. On the roof, in the shed and on the grass field nearby. I parked along side a huge stack of hay and watched for half an hour or so before deciding to set up along a hedge row,opposite the rookery in the woods; with the wind coming from left to right.The only problem was the searing sun was in my face. After a few minutes I had shot 3 and promptly put them onto our homemade spreader sticks. The birds came in steady, every few minutes and by the time my mate rang me at 10.30 I had shot 44 mixed. He arrived with the boys and I told the boys to set up 25 yards along from my hide. Alan joined me and we shot in turn in the hot sunshine all day and as I had shot without a tea-shirt on , I caught the sun a wee bit. . We had shot 207 between us, with myself doing a personal 102 bag. We picked up 168, as the rest had fell into some wheat crop field behind us. WORD OF WARNING TO ALL. Don't buy any WEETABIX for at least 6 months; it might just be ROOKABIX. :lol: SUNDAY Only myself and Alan were out today and first point of call was the same farm as yesterday, just to have a look. Only 50 or so flying about, so we shot over to Warwick for a look at some farms and found a few on some cut grass. We set up and after 2 hours they stopped coming in. We shot 37 and then decided to drive to Leicester to see a farmer that had just drilled(rather lately) a 70acre field of wheat. As I drove into the farm, the farmer pulled up in his tractor with a feed bucket attached and explained that he was just going to feed the cows and would be half an hour or so. We started chatting about any other problems he might have when all of a sudden he shouted at me " did you just see that ******** car up there" He was looking up the road and then shot off like a bat out of hell. I started my jeep up and chased after him. Just at the junction was a derelict barn and we saw the tractor had driven into the gap in the field. I jumped out, just as the farmer was walking back and asked him what was happening.I then saw his son running across the field towards us and the farmer said a car was in front of the tractor; and was manouevering to get out. A courting couple had sneaked in for a bonk and he must have crapped himself when he looked in the rear mirror and saw a dirty big bucket coming at him. me blocking his escape in my jeep and some other geezer running at them from another angle. that will teach them. (mind you the young blondie with him was fit) lol Excitement over, we packed up with a total of 38 birds for the day. Then, we had an hour and a half on the rabbits on the way home. managed 11 total Top weekend 245 birds and 11 rabbits. HOT!HOT!HOT! weather. HOT!HOT!HOT! blondie. Dave K did you get any pics of other activities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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