secretagentmole Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 I was determined to feast upon pigeon again, for too long I have been concentrating on the tufty tails, now it is time to wreak havoc upon the avian community. In short I did not half fancy a pigeon pie and salad. So down to the permission and with a cunning plan, get into the trees and wait! So down a couple of hours before sun down thinking, they have had a gut full, they will want to sleep, thinking about humans and Christmas. I waited, 20 minutes and one flew into the trees, I decided to try and find it, could I? Could I heck as like! Bleeding birch trees. the pigeons blend into the blasted leaves! Flutter! Directly, and I mean directly, above me is a Norfolk wheat laden pie filling, I lift the rifle and can see just fluff, I have to wind the mag down to the bottom, adjust parallax, lift up, it still has not noticed. I hereby read it the last rites, ie "stay still you pie filling pigeon", pull the trigger on the HW, and get a blasted pigeon on the head, I did say it was directly above me! Well after I finished swearing the rest of the flock had flocked off, so out of the woods and time for some bunnies! I see one, at one of the known 30 metre markers, aim and hit the fence, BOINNGGG!!!! Rabbit legs it, like Insane Bolt at the 200 metres, oh bog, then I noticed another I had not seen, bolts what I know is 30 metres, total distance 60m, wind speed zero, level line of sight, gun at optimum known magnification (verified at x8 on recent shooting trials, bottom mark, elevate, steady, aim, slug in just behind the damned eye, rabbit roll over, kick, and dead!!! Proud as fork! Back into the woods, rest, have a couple of rounds of Worms on the phone, use sheep to get a couple and flutter, 10 metres away and 10 metres up, another pie filler landed. Clear aim, no need to adjust, head shot, fire, clump, second pie filler. The light was now fading fast I could see a rabbit in the paddock, but by the time I had got the IR on, lifted the gun up, it had ambled further into the encroaching night, so I said stuff it, rough plucked the pigeons and waited for my lift home.... So pigeon pie will be produced and I think that I will try Rabbit and Black Pudding Stew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted August 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Forgot to say, both shot in the same woodland, one had stuffed it's crop on wheat, one on oil seed rape (the rape stuffed one was the one that fell on me)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halight Posted August 23, 2012 Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Well done mate I hope you enjoy eating them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted August 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2012 Already been prepared for pigeon pie, they have been simmered, the stock saved, meat cleaned off the carcasses, ready for introduction to fried bacon and mushrooms, chopped onion, thickened stock, under a shortcrust lid, half an hour at 200 degrees C. Yummy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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