Remimax Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) got a call from me shooting partner friday saying he'd passed three fields of rape with a couple of hundred pigeons on em. not some where we've shot before so a quick call to the farmer and permission granted. shooting buddy is a local farmers son who knows everyone on our patch so it never seems to be a prob 8am meet at the farm sort the gear load the wheel barrow and we set off across one field to get to the rape. lots of pigeons about so things looking promising. hide set up, decoys out we turn on the magnet and straight away the birds started coming in. after a few birds dropped they all start flying past us to the next field which is very fustrating. we caught a few corvids off guard one which we could not find ,then it all went quiet by noon. bit dissapointing on the bag but enjoyable all the same. would of gone on to shoot the roost but was committed to price a job so maybe next time. Edited February 23, 2014 by Remimax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Rape always promises so much and more often, delivers so little. Well done for getting what you did, and securing the permission. All good things come to those that wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remimax Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Rape always promises so much and more often, delivers so little. Well done for getting what you did, and securing the permission. All good things come to those that wait cheers i'm very lucky to shoot with someone who has so many! think were gonna try a different approach next time as we had all the toys out saturday which might of been overkill. seen people talk of better bags with more simple decoying . might try turning flapper and magnet off if they pass by next time see if it makes any difference. other option is to have seperate hides in different fields but its not the same crack on yer own . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Well I still have a theory, not shared by many that the pigeons we have over winter here and in those spooky flocks are not local birds. They are smaller, sometimes looking like juveniles. They rarely, if ever, have anything in their crops. Unlike the much bigger local birds that have been stuffed with acorns/beech mast, berries etc. Their behaviour is quite different from the local trundlers, that confidently glide into the pattern. Certainly down here in the south, there are few birds about. The big flocks have gone, the local ones have gone for the moment, and we are left with spooky groups of 20 or so birds that spot you pulling into the gateway from 3oo yards away. They will not decoy, nor did they when the flocks first appeared pre xmas. Give it another 3-5 weeks, and hopefully, they will have disappeared and the trundlers will be back. Then the fun will start In the meantime, it a case of getting out, having some banter and pleasing the farmer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caeser Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Thats just typical pigeon behaviour on winter rape. Hundreds on the field, set up, get a couple in the bag, then they're not interested. Frustrating bit still good though isn't it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo Posted February 23, 2014 Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 cheers i'm very lucky to shoot with someone who has so many! think were gonna try a different approach next time as we had all the toys out saturday which might of been overkill. seen people talk of better bags with more simple decoying . might try turning flapper and magnet off if they pass by next time see if it makes any difference. other option is to have seperate hides in different fields but its not the same crack on yer own . do what me and my shooting bud,s do,,,,we take walkie talkies one on one side of the field and you on another then you can let each other know if any birds are coming in from behind each other,,,works a treat atb Evo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remimax Posted February 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 do what me and my shooting bud,s do,,,,we take walkie talkies one on one side of the field and you on another then you can let each other know if any birds are coming in from behind each other,,,works a treat atb Evo cheers evo will give that a go . makes sense to cover more ground as long as the banter still flows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmiddy Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 (edited) Get yourself a radio a pice and then still have the crack with your mate when you are decoying different fields Hope this helps as 5 of us have radios and it keeps you on your toes when there on the move pigeons that is Paul Edited February 26, 2014 by pmiddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted February 26, 2014 Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 You've done the job though keeping them off the crops your shooting over and moving them on to the next field.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remimax Posted February 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2014 Get yourself a radio a pice and then still have the crack with your mate when you are decoying different fields Hope this helps as 5 of us have radios and it keeps you on your toes when there on the move pigeons that is Paul picked up a couple of argos cheapies beginning of the week which seem ok for the money fields we shot over last weekend have been quiet this week as we've been keeping an eye out. looks like the flock we saw on it might have moved on. roost shooting still ok we had a dozen tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmiddy Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Hi Remimax those cheapies from argos are ok but you might be limited for range , keep an eye out on the bay for cheap site radios as there the dogs nuts lol at least this way you can both split up and still have a good crack on the radio paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 I like your theory turbo33 but do the pigeons stick to it I wonder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 I like your theory turbo33 but do the pigeons stick to it I wonder? I must say, it's certainly not a theory that I subscribe to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remimax Posted February 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Hi Remimax those cheapies from argos are ok but you might be limited for range , keep an eye out on the bay for cheap site radios as there the dogs nuts lol at least this way you can both split up and still have a good crack on the radio paul yep think they quote 1.5-2km max range so more than enough for our set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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