JDog Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 (edited) Unbelievably there were still pigeons on the spring rape fields which I have shot for the previous three weeks. I have never known anything like it and I was considering today whether I have ever shot the same fields so frequently. Probably not. But there was a flight line and my new twelve year old buddy William and I set up on it by 10am this morning. What was very obvious was that the birds were wary. There was none of the setting wings at 200m which I have seen before and a lot of the birds took one, sometimes two looks before either coming into the rotary or heading off. This was hardly surprising as over 1000 shots have been fired at them or their mates in the last three weeks. Some birds landed half way across the field. We steadily built up numbers over a four hour period and when we packed up (due to the dogs overheating rather than a lack of birds) we had picked 125. None were lost but the dogs were hot and tired at the end of our session so we finished early. Edited June 30, 2013 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 Well done I wonder if pulling in the rotary would have made a difference to their approach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALW Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 Hello JDog Do you shoot, just by yourself or can you take clents out, if so how much do you charge? as we are looking to shoot pigeons next week for a party of around 3guns.. Please PM me if you can help.... thanks.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Essex Hunter Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 Very nice...slow my way today. TEG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocknee Posted June 29, 2013 Report Share Posted June 29, 2013 Nice one mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 I would have gone to just stand ups scattered about in all directions , no magnet or flappers as they have seen it all before. Well done for a great result considering. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dean44 Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 great shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsowatts Posted June 30, 2013 Report Share Posted June 30, 2013 I've been able to do the same over spring rape this season, this one field I've been shooting over remains very short in places with also some large bare patches.. However it seemed to come to an end yesterday; on three previous outings I've had reasonable bags (for Somerset), but decided to take a friend out yesterday and we only shot 6 birds. It was quite frustrating as the evening before there must have been 150 birds still on the field. I wondered if it was a change in the weather that kept them away, with the temp having risen and there was very little wind or cloud in the sky yesterday it seemed to effected their feeding pattern. Now going to have to wait for them to start hitting the barley and wheat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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