cloudwalker Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 Went out today to a couple of fields of rape i can shoot over. Hadn't checked it out since Boxing day. Arrived at 8.00am and there must have been 1000 pigeon on it. They all cleared of as i lugged all the kit across the field. Started to set up and bunches of Pigeon were flying over. Put out 1 flapper,1 floater and a dozen shells on rockers. Just getting the gun out of the slip when the first bunch came in. This was the start of a manic couple of hours,couldn't load quick enough! It went very quiet at about lunch time but stuck it out til 3.00pm Finished up with 40 woodies and 2 crows for 79 shots, a very enjoyable day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevethevanman Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 Good Shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colin.y Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 nice to here the woodies are starting to graze on rape lets hope febuary is more successfull than january good shooting by the way not bad kill rate that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbithunter Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 nice shooting nice to here you had a good day ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger Mouse Posted January 28, 2007 Report Share Posted January 28, 2007 Well done mate, nice that they kept coming back, after the first shot all mine just flock off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudwalker Posted January 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Thanks guys. I was very pleased especially since I hadn't had time to do a reccy, I just turned up on speck. I had noticed that in other parts of Northants the pigeon had started to move on to the rape in the past 7-10 days. It seems they must have eaten all the ivy berries at last. Keep on looking everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret Master Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Fair play. That is a cracking bag at the moment compared to what other people are reporting. I was distraught this afternoon when I found out that while I was cooped up in school Dad went to my Gran's house to clean out her birds and there were 100+ pigeons on the field that I have permission on next door and flighting into the woods. I wish he could have phoned the school and explained that there was a national emergency and that I was required immediatley. Anyway I'm ferreting on Saturday, then clay shooting Sunday morning and will be attempting to hit some pigeons Sunday afternoon. FM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missedagainstan Posted January 29, 2007 Report Share Posted January 29, 2007 Good report What do youn think kept them comeing back to that perticular field, as there is so much rape planted everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloudwalker Posted January 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 We are quite lucky in that both fields we are shooting on are right next to a golf course and the golf course is right next to a massive housing development. Most of the other farm land nearby is grazing land. As a result there is not a lot of rape nearby. We also get a lot of pigeon coming out from the town and housing estate as well as from woodland a couple of miles away. We shot the same fields at the end of summer when it was wheat stubble, but only shot it a few times as most of the flocks at that time were squabs. We decided to leave it, as a I don't enjoy shooting squabs,also the game dealer wouldn't give us anything for them. We knew that the fields were drilled with rape so decided to leave it till the winter. Glad we did now By the way, on the subject of squabs, i couldn't believe when i picked up one of the birds. It could only have been off the nest a week or two, in January!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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