pigeon controller Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 DB had a phone call from a farmer on Thursday saying that" he had three hundred pigeons on his rape", so Friday morning we set out for this field. The farmer bought this thirty acre field when he rented the farm next to it but has now moved twenty miles away so this was a quick trip down the motorway in the thick fog . When we arrived at the field it was a " Pea Souper" so we went to find a Cafe for bacon sarnies and waited. It did not clear till 12.00 and we lifted about one hundred birds from the trees and set up , wrong decision, we waited till 13.20 and none returned so we packed up. We drove back up the motorway so we could see other rape fields that we have shot in the past but they had no birds on them. We went to another farm and it had about fifty birds in the trees next to the rape , saw the farmer and set up it was now 14.30 we had four birds return and shot, then we heard a tractor coming and he was spinning fertiliser. We stopped him and he said that it would take about two hours to finish the field so we packed up and went to a flight line in the valley back to roost. We both stood in the hedge and waited as the birds started to return to the roost which is in a private park . As the wind was light they were very high comming in and we managed another six. So that was Fridays efforts, I often see comments " do you ever have a bad day" the answer is a few. Saturday saw us heading off in a different direction to rape that we have shot before only to find well shodded wheel tracks and feathers on the upper fields and a gas gun on the lower and no birds. We checked out four more rape farms no birds. We looked at some drillings and they were deviod of any surface seed hence no birds , we found twenty on clover but they just lifted off and kept flying. We ended up driving down the motorway to the rape that we had looked at the day before and as we arrived about two hundred lifted off the field so we drove down to a dell that they were all sitting in and set up. it was a good hour before the first bird decided to return as he came to the pattern he veered off and as I have reported in another post we found that the wind was strong each side of the pattern but in the middle it was protected from the wind and still . When we realised we set the pattern so they could over fly the centre and we would take them at distance. During the rest of the afternoon not many of the original two hundred returned , the ones that did came straight to the pattern. At about 16.00 we heard some shots behind us on land that we are unable to shoot and about two hundred birds lifted and dropped back down again. We ended the day with fifty six birds. We had covered one hundred and sixty miles to achieve that. I should have known that they had all gone south to the Cotswolds to visit JDogs drillings!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 You certainly put the time in P.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted March 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 You certainly put the time in P.C. Yes you have to some times, the poor dog was travel sick by the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evo Posted March 16, 2014 Report Share Posted March 16, 2014 great bit of work , well done atb Evo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Fifty-six is still a good bag. I'd be happy with a few of those right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Looks like pigeon control is certainly needed there PC, that rape looks well grazed. nice bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Looks like pigeon control is certainly needed there PC, that rape looks well grazed. nice bag. That's because it's been that cold recently that the pigeons have had no other option... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Most people would have given up half way through the day. As agaman says that rape is backward so there should be shooting there for a while yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbo33 Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 You deserved that PC for all the hard work There was a post on here a while ago about someone wanting a permission within 10 miles of him. PC, you continually show that in order to get decent shooting, you have to be prepared to travel I admire your tenacity and your rewards are entirely due to yours and DB's hard efforts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 Great read PC, well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 That's because it's been that cold recently that the pigeons have had no other option... No comment sir. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 still a very good bag pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted March 17, 2014 Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 That's because it's been that cold recently that the pigeons have had no other option... Motty , your like a dog with a bone Well done PC it would be nice if effort was always rewarded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caeser Posted March 19, 2014 Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Thats not a bad bag PC. It made an enjoyable read anyway. It helps when I'm slaving away at work, and gives me something to look forward to on my days off. (Even though I probably won't get that many. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted March 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2014 Thats not a bad bag PC. It made an enjoyable read anyway. It helps when I'm slaving away at work, and gives me something to look forward to on my days off. (Even though I probably won't get that many. ) Hi Ceaser, I'm glad that I can assist in breaking your day up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actionpigeons Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 good number Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blasterjudd Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Hi PC You guys really do work hard for your shooting full credit to you both, you deserve a good result. Mind u the dogs looks mighty fed up and not so happy this week lol ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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