bunny_blaster Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 By 2.30 today I had finished work and was leaving the yard. I decided to go and have a few hours on the pigeons if I could find any. I have 4 big beech trees in my garden that at the moment are full to the brim with pigeons feeding on the mast, my plan was to head to a piece of ground I have that has a lot of beech trees on it and just shoot the pigeons as they came into the trees. I travelled light with just my net bag 4 hide poles and 9 half shells. When I arrived the ground had been freshly drilled and there where about 300 birds down spread between the 2 main fields. As I was only there for a few hours I decided to shoot a small field the furthest away from the main flock as to not spook them hopefully for the weekend. I set up against a small copse in the middle of the field and got settled in. The birds came in nicely for 1.5 hours then it went dead. I was using my newly acquired lincoln premier gold 20 gauge which is what I planned on using for this game season only but its so light and nice to shoot I can see it coming out on the pigeons more often. I picked 25 birds for my efforts. The main flock where still feeding as I left so hopefully they will still be there on Saturday. Also of the 25 I picked 16 where full of oats which I know people on here say pigeons don't like.... Cheers Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyg Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 nice short session,that's a lot of oats.....they have been hitting a field hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted September 25, 2014 Report Share Posted September 25, 2014 It looks like oats that's for certain. However some barley strains are long and thin and are more like oats than barley. Let us know if you find the source for a positive explanation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peejay Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 nice gun. better than the old 301 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Well done Ben , your theory work well and you found them on the field for Saturday. They are on my beech trees also and some of the birds last week had beech masts in them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgguinness Posted September 26, 2014 Report Share Posted September 26, 2014 Nice one mate, well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimfireboy Posted September 27, 2014 Report Share Posted September 27, 2014 well done,good shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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