pigeon controller Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 Fridays weather was forecast to be isolated showers , so we went out full of energy only to be confronted with heavy rain and low cloud. We had set up on an old oat stubble as we had watched the birds comming in from a great distance. The weather then descended in on us for a good thirty minutes soaking all the gear and decoys. The next concern was the way the pigeons were comming into the decoys, as we had seen previously they were in ones and twos after the rain they were in tens and fifteens. Don't get me wrong I am not complaining but if ten come in you shoot two and spook eight or three and seven if your DB with his auto. We had a frustrating afternoon but ended the day picking up one hundred and fourteen so we were well pleased. Saturday was a lovely autumn morning and we went in a different direction looking for birds only the end up on the wheat stubble we have shot for the passed three weeks. We went back to our hide position under an oak tree only to find some of its branches lying in the stubble as it had been shot in the week. We set up with the normal twelve fresh decoys from Friday and waited, twenty minutes later the first bird returned and we started shooting, after about thirty minutes it went dead untill another shooter started two fields behind us( not on our permission) this kept a steady supply of birds coming over our decoys and giving us some cracking passing shots, we packed up at 17.00 and picked up one hundred and forty eight birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 another 2 excellant days pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 You need to take a film crew I'm sure we'd all love to see how you manage it time and time again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 You need to take a film crew I'm sure we'd all love to see how you manage it time and time again Re My Avitar, I'm camera Shy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrispti Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 Very good ........ Again .....;0) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon pete Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 nice one can you send a few south ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 Re My Avitar, I'm camera Shy!!! yeah right you have posed for enough bag pics this year to say otherwise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 nice going pc. well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon6ppc Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 well done pc, your one top pigeon shooting mother flipper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebarrels Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 :good: BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted September 29, 2012 Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 I reckon they're a load of stuffed birds he moves from field to field just to make the rest of us look like amateurs :yp: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2012 I reckon they're a load of stuffed birds he moves from field to field just to make the rest of us look like amateurs :yp: ROWLOCKS I've been found out!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandmartin Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Nice work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 nice work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 (edited) Superb couple of days We too, noticed some massive flocks yesterday, up very high and on a distant mission south. Absolutely no chance of drawing any our way We spent hours driving and hardly saw a thing under 1000 feet :( Nothing on the stubbles, germinated rape or in the woods The most I have seen recently was on some oat stubble, typically next to some houses that are shooting sensitive.....now that is weird, I've never known them go for oats before Edited September 30, 2012 by turbo33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet1747 Posted September 30, 2012 Report Share Posted September 30, 2012 Can't be any more pigeons left surly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catamong Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Another couple of good bags there PC, I can't help but notice that nearly all of your birds are adults with a full set of neck markings, we shot 135 yesterday over a bean stubble and I would reckon that about 70% of those were juvenile birds without the neck markings, as is always the case at this time of year. Do you deliberately target the adults and leave the youngsters alone, or perhaps the birds don't breed too much in your area..?? Cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegasus bridge Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 well done -cracking day again - how do you do it so consistently? (yes, i know thats the million dollar question!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humperdingle Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 I reckon they're a load of stuffed birds he moves from field to field just to make the rest of us look like amateurs :yp: Not stuffed... Just very well trained Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Just another couple of good bags :good: your the daddy when it comes to pigeon shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 Another couple of good bags there PC, I can't help but notice that nearly all of your birds are adults with a full set of neck markings, we shot 135 yesterday over a bean stubble and I would reckon that about 70% of those were juvenile birds without the neck markings, as is always the case at this time of year. Do you deliberately target the adults and leave the youngsters alone, or perhaps the birds don't breed too much in your area..?? Cat. i can see young birds in them pics, also they must breed a lot in that area otherwise he wouldn,t produce the bags that he does time after time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted October 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 i can see young birds in them pics, also they must breed a lot in that area otherwise he wouldn,t produce the bags that he does time after time We do have a fair proportion of young birds but we do tend to hit the adults if they decoy to allow the young birds to gain weight. If they are high passing shots we just go for it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 We do have a fair proportion of young birds but we do tend to hit the adults if they decoy to allow the young birds to gain weight. If they are high passing shots we just go for it . i (sometimes) let young birds go you can tell some have not long come off a nest, but as you say any high birds or long crossing shots get it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonblasterian Posted October 1, 2012 Report Share Posted October 1, 2012 I do not bother shooting at a lot of the young ones.It does not seem right to me to shoot something that has not had any experience of life.It may sound patronising but it not meant to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pigeon driller Posted October 2, 2012 Report Share Posted October 2, 2012 Thought it were called crop protection do yuoung birds not cause as much damage as old ones i think you may find they do so get em shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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