Shame on you

[NickB65]

Well the crows I shoot get hung up on the fence or in the tree to scare the rest away - an old trick a game keeper told me and seems to work. Some of the local walkers seem less appreciative but it is private land, not against the law and not causing a health hazard so tough. Checked with the local bobby and the RSPB chap and they where happy. Any birds I shoot go two ways - if there are too few for the game dealer then I let friends and family have them but if there is enough then a call to the game dealer and he takes them.

 

In London Pigeon and Rabbit are really popular and at £25.00 for a warm pigeon salad the restaurant make a good profit.

[besty57]

Gave away 64 pigeons the other weekend to a farm shop that sells game. They will make a buck or two from them. Breasted a few and gave 4 to a woman at work and 2 to a mate to try.

 

I still have 22 in the freezer that will be used as decoys until the are only fit for fox fodder.

 

I think the difficulty is finding an outlet for them, any game really if you are not a game shoot with a game dealer contact. A lot of people don't want to dress game or even try it.

I was at my local farm shop yesterday buying some beef and pots.i asked the butcher if he had any call for pigeon .

his words were.NO I couldn't give them away.

makes you wonder

[ayano3]

If you dont have anywhere or anyone to take them then dont shoot them. Disposing of them in a suitable way is part and parcel of shooting. But the fact is they have been dumped which dont suprise me to be honest. For some, hopefully the small minority, its far more important they they 'kill something' and 'want to shoot something'

[bongaanie]

i must say dumping them in a puplic place is bang out of order but i myself from time to time trow away a few pigeons on one of my perms as the farmer has been on the farm for 40 years and only ever seen one fox and me myself on the other hand love to see foxes in the feild and will not shoot a fox. i am not saying shooting foxes is wrong it is just a personal thingand when i last spoke to the farmer he told me he had seen two in the last week and loved the sight of them . the birds i dump though are birds that i have shot and frozen then used as decs in the feild as i prefer dead birds as oppose to plastic ones, as you cant really eat these birds after they have been frozen a few times but they feed the wild life witch cant be a bad thing and the farmer dont mind me leaving a few dead birds in the feild .but remember not all farmers like dead birds left so befor you dump birds just check with the farmer

[pigeonblasterian]

I dump the majority of stuff i shoot.I will keep and use a few fresh shot pigeons as decoys for another day if i am going again and dump the old ones.Not everyone has a decent game dealer and for what you get paid for birds it is not worth me bothering.

If anyone comes with me i usually tell them to take the birds if they want them or else they get left in the hedgerow.

Farmer would not be too happy with me if i said i was only going out to shoot when i was hungry.That i did not want to shoot anything because i had no one to give it too or a game dealer to take it too.

I have two freezers full of processed pigeons,rabbits etc.

If you go out regular you soon get them full and find you have nowhere to put any more.