aga man Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 (edited) For the first time in what seems an age today we found some woodpigeons and managed to shoot some. I have been watching this barley field for some time now and pigeon activity has gone from a few showing interest last thursday to literally hundreds over the past couple of days. The field is a difficult one to watch at this time of year as it's surrounded by wheat fields, so binoculars from a couple of fields away is the only option and dosen't always show the whole picture. I knew from watching with binoculars that pigeons were there but unsure of what numbers. I decided to take advantage of a stiff north breeze today and shoot the field with my good friend and shooting buddy PW member tan. I got my work finished by lunchtime and we arrived at the field at 2pm greeted by the the sight of at least 300 pigeons on the barley field and very reluctant to leave wanting to go straight back down to feed. We travelled light due to the 400 yd walk up the tramlines. We chose to set up pitch at a sitty tree almost central in the field. Tan put up a hide and i set up a homemade pigeon magnet with a couple of dead birds at the edge of small laid patch of crop. Almost instantly the birds decoyed and we made some good shots. We took turns to shoot and basically enjoyed an afternoons banter. We marked and picked birds wit the dog as we shot them to minimise crop damage. I know the field well and the same old flight lines that were there 20 years ago were still today bringing pigeons from the town in there droves. The amount of young birds was unreal and it seemed more like september. I now fully agree with motty and others who predict good harvest bags. My advice to others is watch your barley fields closely we have had no pigeon oppertunitys for ages and suddenly from no where the woodies are here and loving the barley. We knocked off at 6.30pm as the action slowed. We shot 71 and picked 66. we both fired just over two boxes of shells and picked up 107 empties which i thought was good going Edited June 16, 2014 by aga man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linny Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Well done , nice that you managed to pick almost all the birds too, I fear not all will give it any thought as is usually the case this time of year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Early bird this season Sir.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Good to read about your success. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted June 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Well done , nice that you managed to pick almost all the birds too, I fear not all will give it any thought as is usually the case this time of year. Cheers fenboy, to be fair we could have shot a lot more birds if we didn't keep going out to pick up as they were still coming in but i never could see the point of shooting pigeons and not picking them. It's something i would never do if i could help it waste of good meat and cartridges Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonblasterian Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Worth finishing work early for a decent bag like that. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m greeny Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Excellent result for you both it just goes to show that putting in the effort in your surveillance paid dividends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 Well done Aga Seems you had a great days sport!! Thanks for shoring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 16, 2014 Report Share Posted June 16, 2014 You took advantage of the pigeon's sudden interest in the barley. Well done and a good cart to kill ratio also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Good Shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty* Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Well done aga man. There 100% on the barley now, too good friends of mine were on laid barley on a well known estate in my area on sunday with a total bag a 320. As said already a good kill ratio aswell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Well done aga man, the start of the summer. Good write up and advice I.e. crop damage and picking up shells. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted June 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Well done aga man, the start of the summer. Good write up and advice I.e. crop damage and picking up shells. Thanks PC, nice to hear from you. hope all is well in the sunshine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangford wildfowler Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Weldone aga man I now want to go out and decoy pigeons after your writeup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eccles Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Well done Bud good write up a and good shooting atb Terry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stevo Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Cracking bit of shooting to the both of you . A nice wright up to .well shot . Stevo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-UK Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Excellent write up aga man, I'm looking forward to having a go at shooting some pigeons myself sometime, but being a newbie, its getting to know folk that will take me under there wing...pardon the pun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 top report ...top day..... im still watching "my fields" a little bit of movement..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonker Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Spot on aga man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Good going. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pestcontrol1 Posted June 17, 2014 Report Share Posted June 17, 2014 Good there aga nice to see there is a few about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caeser Posted June 19, 2014 Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 Great result. It looks like you've got some flattened barley there. I've been scouring all the fields I can, looking for flattened patches, but all the crop for me seems to be standing firmly upright. So no opportunities for me yet. I will be watching closely though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoggysreels Posted June 19, 2014 Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 Great read and result ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted June 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2014 (edited) Great result. It looks like you've got some flattened barley there. I've been scouring all the fields I can, looking for flattened patches, but all the crop for me seems to be standing firmly upright. So no opportunities for me yet. I will be watching closely though. Thanks caeser, the Barley here is grown by a dairy farmer and it is the longer stemmed variety [for straw] which tends to down fairly easy with heavy rain. I have seen some pigeons tonight dropping into standing crop on another field! Edited June 19, 2014 by aga man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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