NickB65 Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 (edited) Well it has been a while since I was last out for a decent afternoons shooting and boy was it worth while. A tad rusty with some of the shots - the easy ones I kept missing but the high hard ones I bagged with one shot. Shooting over wheat stubble with a westerly wind from behind and left. Set-up against a decent sized hedge on my new shooting seat with my new secret weapons.The seat is my dads old carp fishing box with adjustable legs. Sadly his dementia means he will never fish again but hopefully he will be pleased I am using some of his kit to good use. The secret weapons were some wire frames from A1Decoy that allow you to pin a dead bird up in the "coming into land position"..... Amazing. When they went out I had a steady two / three bird run for an hour.... Shame my shooting didn't enable me to bag more..... But such is life.Tried the magnet again but they kept shying away from it no matter where I put it so i guess they are being shot over the magnets a lot.31 woodies, 8 feral, 1 magpie and a crazy suicidal Dove that just kept coming into the pattern no matter how many pigeons I shot.Back out again Wednesday evening for another round but this time over some harvested rape......:-) Edited September 2, 2013 by NickB65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 Well done, great result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigman Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 Nice one Nick , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickB65 Posted September 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 On butchering the woodies I have noticed that the breast bone is often deformed. Instead of a straight ridge it is often bent and in some cases broken and fused. The deformity is not from a fall as the nature of the bone shows it is a birth defect and stems from initial forming of the bone. The meat and organs are clear and they flew well and most are very plump with food so this does not inhibit their day to day life.... Anyone else seen this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 On butchering the woodies I have noticed that the breast bone is often deformed. Instead of a straight ridge it is often bent and in some cases broken and fused. The deformity is not from a fall as the nature of the bone shows it is a birth defect and stems from initial forming of the bone. The meat and organs are clear and they flew well and most are very plump with food so this does not inhibit their day to day life.... Anyone else seen this? Yes see it all the time don't make no difference to the meat still tastes good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody walloper Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 the deformed breast bone is caused by astick sticking upin the bottom of the nest and they have been sitting on it from hatching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickB65 Posted September 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 I agree the meat is fine and tastes the same but one would have thought that such a deformity would have impacted their flight in some way. The wonders of nature.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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