tomhw100 Posted August 20, 2012 Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 (edited) Picked my mate tom up yesterday morning at about 7.30 and we headed to our local permission in hanningfield. The farmer has really got stuck into the wheat now and most of it is down so I can pretty much drive everywhere in the berlingo! We had a drive round the whole farm (about 850 acres) whith the daystates and managed a squirrel,3 magpies and a crow(didn't take a picture of them though as I couldnt be bothered to have them in the van stinking all day). We kept an eye on two of the wheat fields-there was a few birds about but the heat and the lack of wind was keeping them In the trees. One of the fields has approximately 10 tones of wheat seed spread over it as the combine wasn't filtering it properly when they was cutting! (The farmer worked out how much he lost) it was one of the contractors apparently. Anyhoo the pigeons don't seem to of found said field yet so watch this space!...we ended up watching a field to about 2ish and decided to set up on a whim we couldn't set up on the line we see so we made a hide just off it,as soon as we got in the wind died off and the temperature soared it was so muggy,I was glad i decided to dig out my old German flectarn combats as they're lighter than my water proof realtree trousers...i did consider sitting there in my pants but I thought it might be a bit weird,sitting next to my mate! Lol The birds were really slow and there was some times 30 mins going by without seeing a bird....in the end the tally was 51 pigeons (45 picked, 6 lost in the field behind and in the bottom of a ditch either side of us) and two crows for 99 shots We had some good shots as the birds weren't really decoying a few did but most was skirting round the outside of the pattern.we packed up at 6.30 so not to bad for four hours. Edited August 20, 2012 by tomhw100 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tod Posted August 20, 2012 Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 another good bag, well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhw100 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2012 Cheers mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildfowler12 Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Good bag, nice write up and picture for the album! Cos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deny essex Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Nice to hear there are some birds local, nice going . Will be glad when im fit enough to get out im missing all the harvest :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainman_l Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Nice write up, good bag well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the poacher Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 good bag lads welldone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Good result, well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenntiger Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 nice bag lads. well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandmartin Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Nice bit of pigeon bashing. Well shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted August 21, 2012 Report Share Posted August 21, 2012 Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Nice bag . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halight Posted August 22, 2012 Report Share Posted August 22, 2012 Well done mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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