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257 Pigeons & 2 Crows


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A change to my local shooting found me in a rape field on the back of Southend Air Port…

I went with Peter Theobald and his guest, half of the rape has been cut in this 60 acre field. There have been plenty of pigeons feeding on it from day one of cutting; the only way to shoot it was 2 field hides as there are local pigeons and 3 flight lines over it.

I was 300 yards down wind of the other hide which cut me off until the lines picked up. During the day the birds would switch from one set up then the second giving all a good bit of shooting…

I clicked 129 and picked 124 Peter and his guest 128 and picked 124 with 1 crow each..

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TEH

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I wouldn't have had that hide so far out into the field if I were you! Only kidding............but I still say that it may not work here in the deep Cotswolds. Either that or I am just not brave enough.

 

Very well done to the three of you. You too were brave to indicate that you shot more than PT.

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Unimaginable!

 

I drove two hours on Saturday to a field that had been blue with them. Plenty on there when I arrived, walked them off then nothing in the air for the next 4 hours. One daft lost suicidal pigeon flew into the pattern, but that was virtually the only bird I saw all morning. That is pigeon shooting as I experience it. 100+ days are hard to believe! LOL

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