fenboy Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) After driving around my permissions the last two days I had seen nothing worth getting the gun out for. I had also seen very little on the peas at the back of my house other than one large flock that was there one minute and gone the next. So I was a little surprised when the farmer called to ask me to shoot them as he had seen a few on them. Since he had asked I thought I had better give it a go . When I got down the field there was as I expected not a bird to be seen , I put the decoys out set the hide up and started waiting , funnily enough I did not have to wait long and shot the first within 10 mins and it was quickly followed by a second.and after a hour I had 13 . Things then slowed but every now and again I would get a flurry of birds and they decoyed very well. I finished with 41 My shooting was not up to scratch today and I had lots of second barrel kills , I counted 65 empties You can perhaps see by the colour of my face that it was quite warm with the sun in my face today. Edited April 15, 2014 by fenboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyg Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 well done..well worth setting up stunning afternoon as well...all good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbiter Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 nice bag mate,hope im as lucky on peas tomorrow........DAZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Your shooting is going to the dogs I would say. Forty one for sixty five! I would have fired at least 100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 (edited) JDog I think you a either very modest or telling porkies ! Edited April 15, 2014 by fenboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Nice bag fenboy, i had you down for being much older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Nice bag fenboy, i had you down for being much older. I know , I know , I look far younger than my years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Good shooting! 41 for 65 cartridges is alot better than my average on the clays at the weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted April 15, 2014 Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Fenboy, you ignored the basic rule of not getting rid of that piece of white plastic from next to the decoy pattern. I dare say that error cost you at least 100 birds. All the pigeons were no doubt sat in the trees 10 miles away being put off by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2014 Fenboy, you ignored the basic rule of not getting rid of that piece of white plastic from next to the decoy pattern. I dare say that error cost you at least 100 birds. All the pigeons were no doubt sat in the trees 10 miles away being put off by it. Dam , that's why I missed out on a red letter day , thanks for pointing it out . All the smaller looking white dots in that photo are actually feathers with the sun shining off them , funnily enough the birds still decoyed ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty* Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Well done, not a bad day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Fenboy, in that first picture, why do you look like you want to kill those pigeons again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Good shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Mat Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 (edited) Fenboy, in that first picture, why do you look like you want to kill those pigeons again I recon he is actually looking at Flynn. I don't think I've seen Flynn sit down before Edited April 16, 2014 by Big Mat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted April 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Fenboy, in that first picture, why do you look like you want to kill those pigeons again I am actually looking down at the pigeon to stop the sun burning my eyes out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magman Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Well done , love the first pic . who ever took the pic looks petite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted April 17, 2014 Report Share Posted April 17, 2014 Well done, great result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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