pigeon controller Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Started out Friday morning after some very heavy rain which made the Goodrich A/T work hard on the soft groud. Started looking at the wheat stubble and noticed that although the birds were down nothing was flighting to the field . Spooked the birds off this field which is not on our permission by shooting next to it which is and they flew exactly down the boundry fence, not crossing ours at all. We drove back up through the farm back on to the road, on the way up the grass field the traction control was working overtime but we got there. Driving round the roads we decided to shoot the wind ward side of the birds the hope was that the shot would spook them into wind and they would come over our land, so we set up in anticipation. Amazingly thats what they did straight int our pattern. We ended the day picking up one hundred and fifty three and slithered our way off the field. Saturday morning saw us driving in a different direction following a phone call from a mate of DBs saying that they were pilling in on stubble wheat, when we arrived there was about two hundred birds down but nothing joining so we spooked them up and waited. Thirty minutes later and nothing , so we left. We then found another flock down on bean stubble and again nothing flighting so we spooked them and waited and had a brew and nothing returned so we drove on. As we were in the lanes a Farmer we know flagged us down and said that he had a pigeon problem at the back of his house. We know him of old and the problem is normally crows. If we refused to shoot that could mean losing the shoot so we agreed to have a go. When we drove to the field it had a host of crows and a few pigeon on the seed. So we set up for both 12 real pigeon to the right of us ,no magnet and two real crows to the left of us and started shooting. The shots were rattling the woods and that kept bringing birds to us, we shot till dusk and ended the day with ninety two pigeon and fiftynine crows and jackdaws so it was a great day at the end and as we had to drive through the farm to get home the farmer stopped us and we showed him the picture and he was overjoyed and it kept us on the land for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.philmypower. Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Well done once again love your hide positioning, looks fab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon pete Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 iam surprised you have any pigeons left in your area lol there's a lot of pies there ,nice bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenntiger Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 well done mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 nice one pc. enjoyable write up and pics as always. can't beat a bit of crow bashing . keeps the farmers happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 Well done mate bet your dog is ready for a lie down at night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 I would hate to be a pigeon in your neck of the woods !. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon6ppc Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 (edited) well done pc,bet your go threw some amo.lol Edited October 6, 2012 by simon6ppc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 well done pc,bet your go threw some amo.lol We buy 12K a year at present but were open to freebies for testing !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOXHUNTER1 Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Well done as always PC , you certainly know your stuff. Out of interest do you know how many you have shot in your pigeon shooting career? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Well done as always PC , you certainly know your stuff. Out of interest do you know how many you have shot in your pigeon shooting career? I haven't got that many fingers!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildfowler12 Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Excellent, as per Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurchers Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 nice going mate and it turned out well for you in the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOXHUNTER1 Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I haven't got that many fingers!!!!! Do you not keep a record? I certainly would with the bags that you get. I have got records from 1987 to date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Do you not keep a record? I certainly would with the bags that you get. I have got records from 1987 to date. I've got records on a weekly basis for the past nine years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P~MX Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 great shootin & great sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul T Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I've got records on a weekly basis for the past nine years. Go on then, make us all jealous and give us a full total to date. Cracking shooting again mate, well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 Go on then, make us all jealous and give us a full total to date. Cracking shooting again mate, well done I'll have to wait till a rainy day and get my calculator out!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted October 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 I'll have to wait till a rainy day and get my calculator out!!! Just a quick tot up last year was 7K plus decoys and this year so far 6.7 K plus decoys. The totals are sales and each time I go out I take twelve frozen birds as decoys which are left for the foxes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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