pigeon controller Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Friday saw us starting out at 11.00 due to 06.00 delivery to the game dealer but we started at the farm we shot last week expecting plenty of birds as I'd been out in the week crow bashing and seen approx 700 on the rape stubble. We drove onto the field " nothing" not a bird down, we waited to see if any were flighting, after twenty minutes we had seen ten birds pass over the field , we then decided to give it a go and went to see the farmer and he told us it had been shot in the week and they had forty birds. We went back to the field and found their hide position plus all the cartridges ( Scruffy B--------) All you should leave is footprints. We set up on the flightline and the birds were crossing the field in a flightline that was two hundred yards wide so it was frustrating shooting but exciting. Towards the middle of the session the wind dropped and the birds started to decoy well and we ended the day with one hundred and sixteen . Sturday saw us setting off a 09.00 in a totally different direction trying to pick up on flightlines. We managed to find five and after seventy miles cross country we found five farms with pigeon feeding we also found three shooters and two expected to come out to shoot. We get comments that you must have a lack of shooters in your area due to the pigeon numbers we shoot, I can assure you that we have lots of shooters around at times. As we made our way back past known fields we bumped into one of our farmers, we had a chat and he said that he had been bale collecting this morning and the pigeon were flying all around him. so we went to have a look at the field in general. As we drove on about ten lifted off the field so we decided to have a go. We set up at 17.00 and shot till 18.30 and picked up fifty four pigeon and two crows. Which was a good end to a long day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browning123 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 I lost a couple of very good permissions due to other shooters leaving their spent cartridges all over the ground - the farmer saw his ar** and stopped all other shooters going decoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Well done, I bet the farmer was pleased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant8681 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 I wish I could find some shooting like that down here in Cornwall! Good shooting I'm very jealous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Good shooting lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenntiger Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 well done again pc another good couple of days it do,s annoy you when go to the effort to clean up after yourself and other shooters just don't give a **** its so annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Well done PC another fine couple of bags, I was in a rough shooting syndicate a few years back and found literally hundreds of carts in various different locations , I didn't have a clue who it was so every time I found them I cleared them up but phoned the land owner to make him aware that it isn't me , he found out who it was and he got binned, I agree mate all that should be left after a days decoying is footprints and the odd feather floating about ha ha ATB Flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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