12boreblue Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Been out for the last 2 Saturdays on rape... not a bird to pick, groups of 4-500 on it but once you walk em off, they go the other end of the field!!! So frustrating, when I get home over 30 in the garden!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 I shoot them in my parents garden. And the squirrels. Air rifle from top window is good fun. Or if your lucky with location, 12 gauge and all the works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rav4 Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Know exactly what you mean i am having same trouble.know coulsdon well im in caterham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmytree Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 I'll shoot magpies in the garden at this time of year, rats and squirrels anytime. The woodies that come in the garden are a pleasure to watch although I still get an itchy finger watching them. So to satisfy my bloodlust I let fly at them with an elastic band and paper clips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numpty Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Everybody will have a different view on garden pigeons but for me my home is their home, whilst Crows, Magpies and Squirrels get short thrift for the sake of my song birds. I know it depends on how large your garden is but there is only one place in my mind to shoot the woody and that's in the fields. As I write this now I have one that sits by my office window that I nod to every now and again and he (one of a nesting pair) turns away as he knows that if he acknowledges me, he will have to move! After shooting many, many thousands of pigeon and with no intention of stopping doing so, I respect these home birds, but boy does my wife call me strange when 50 of his chums lay cooling on the garage floor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garden gun Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Most of the time garden pigeons are left alone, but if they get too numerous they get culled. Corvids, squizzers, rtas get the instant chop. 14.5 grains of lead sees them off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barley Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 didnt think u cud shoot birds in your gardens. dont see the point there not causing any harm. let me geuss youve got bird feeders to. i love watching crows and jackdaws hanging upside down desperatly trying to get a piece of grain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentalmac Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 didnt think u cud shoot birds in your gardens. dont see the point there not causing any harm. let me geuss youve got bird feeders to. i love watching crows and jackdaws hanging upside down desperatly trying to get a piece of grain Think you'd have to be able to justify crop protection... Also, can't upset the neighbours with it either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbower Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Pigeons all around me at home, I just leave them. Magpies and Squirrels get get HW95'd , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 When I do it, which is rarely these days and I don't go to the parents so much, I am surrounded by fields owned by a farmer I shoot for. At the first shot, birds lift of all the fields around me (crop protection), when I shoot (at) birds over my parents garden they learn it's not safe, and leave my parents veg alone (crop protection) and don't poo all over the laundry (protecting health and safety). I'm pretty happy I satisfy general licence and legal requirements, and I'm very lucky with where my parents live, don't even have any complaints from neighbours, although there's only 4 or 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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