motty Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 I had spotted a field of growing greens (a field I have shot before) with a massive amount of pigeons taking an interest. Jules (Muncher) had seen the same field and decided to ask the farmer for a shot. The farmer surprising obliged. The crop appears to be broccoli. Jules invited to me to join him and we arranged to meet at 9am yesterday. He arrived at the field before me, only to find a few dead birds and empty shells left behind by someone else.. Jules seemed disheartened by the fact that someone had so recently shot there, but I was much more optimistic. The way the pigeons were starting to turn up, I was certain we'd shoot a few. We put out a couple of magnets and a flapper and settled into the hide. We didn't have long to wait before the first customers arrived. We had a few in the bag quickly, with barely anything being missed. I changed the position of one of the magnets to better suit the approach of the majority of pigeons. This immediately improved things. A few dead birds added improved matters further still. Jules was being beaten up by the comb of the borrowed gun he was using - an egg rapidly rising on his cheek. Using my O/U didn't help, either, so he went on to use my Mossberg silenced .410. Jules' hit rate was not his usual high standard like when he uses a 12, but he shot pretty well, nonetheless. I also shot a few nice birds with the .410 later on. The practice on clays has paid off. Fifty were down after the couple of hours and the action showed no sign of relenting. It was interesting to see bunches of up to fifty strong flying around. After an extremely quiet May, it was certainly nice to really get back amongst the birds. After we packed up we put up a good few hundred off the far corner of the field - there are still a huge number of birds in the area. If we had both been using 12s for the whole day, I'm sure we would have had 175. It was still a hugely enjoyable day and 150 pigeons killed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Sounds like a brilliant day. Encouraging to hear of the pigeon numbers you have there, nothing much showing here yet though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony G Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 That's not the field Ade has had his eye on is it Motty ? !!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muncher Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 (edited) Think my shooting with you 410 was ok and I recall an eye wipe with it!!!! also who stopped me getting a triple !!!Good day enen with a swollen face Edited June 11, 2015 by muncher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Think my shooting with you 410 was ok and I recall an eye wipe with it!!!! also who stopped me getting a triple !!!Good day enen with a swollen face <script pagespeed_no_defer="" type="text/javascript">//=d.offsetWidth&&0>=d.offsetHeight)a=!1;else{c=d.getBoundingClientRect();var f=document.body;a=c.top+("pageYOffset"in window?window.pageYOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollTop);c=c.left+("pageXOffset"in window?window.pageXOffset:(document.documentElement||f.parentNode||f).scrollLeft);f=a.toString()+","+c;b.b.hasOwnProperty(f)?a=!1:(b.b[f]=!0,a=a<=b.e.height&&c<=b.e.width)}a&&(b.a.push(e),b.d[e]=!0)};p.prototype.checkImageForCriticality=function(b){b.getBoundingClientRect&&q(this,b)};h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality",function(b){n.checkImageForCriticality(b)});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkCriticalImages",function(){r(n)});var r=function(b){b.b={};for(var d=["IMG","INPUT"],a=[],c=0;c=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e)}b.g&&(e="&rd="+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify(s())),131072>=a.length+e.length&&(a+=e),d=!0);t=a;if(d){c=b.f;b=b.h;var f;if(window.XMLHttpRequest)f=new XMLHttpRequest;else if(window.ActiveXObject)try{f=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP")}catch(k){try{f=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")}catch(u){}}f&&(f.open("POST",c+(-1==c.indexOf("?")?"?":"&")+"url="+encodeURIComponent(b)),f.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"),f.send(a))}}},s=function(){var b={},d=document.getElementsByTagName("IMG");if(0==d.length)return{};var a=d[0];if(!("naturalWidth"in a&&"naturalHeight"in a))return{};for(var c=0;a=d[c];++c){var e=a.getAttribute("pagespeed_url_hash");e&&(!(e in b)&&0=b[e].k&&a.height>=b[e].j)&&(b[e]={rw:a.width,rh:a.height,ow:a.naturalWidth,oh:a.naturalHeight})}return b},t="";h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.getBeaconData",function(){return t});h("pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run",function(b,d,a,c,e,f){var k=new p(b,d,a,e,f);n=k;c&&m(function(){window.setTimeout(function(){r(k)},0)})});})();pagespeed.CriticalImages.Run('/mod_pagespeed_beacon','http://forums.pigeonwatch.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=c31618b459fc44c2fe28d0ec3755723b&app=forums&module=ajax§ion=topics&do=quote&t=314263&p=2843393&md5check=86561eb2c9cb71be09dcbdde05c002ed&isRte=1,l8PuqRhht8,true,false,sJ9L0jFsC0A');//]]></script> &&0 Eye wipe? Can't remember... I can remember screwing up your triple, though. I'm sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 A very fine day for the two of you. Had I turned up to see empty cartridges and dead birds I may well have turned tail. Well done for seeing the potential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Well done indeed , I have also been seing a lot of pigeon activity on greens , most of which I cannot shoot as it is close to cutting , but one I will be having a look at tomorrow or saturday hopefully , not expecting the numbers you had though ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Good going Motty and Muncher , considering the height of the Broccoli you were shooting over you both done well. We don't grow it no more , but when we did I shot a nice lot until the leaves nearly touched each other and then it was more or less it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty* Posted June 11, 2015 Report Share Posted June 11, 2015 Well done lads a good day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Great to hear of a great days pigeon shooting , as JDog said well done for staying after seeing spent cartridges. It seems a strange crop for them to be on , but that's pigeon shooting. Good report, good banter, great day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshMike Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Nicely done gents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 Nicely done gents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted June 12, 2015 Report Share Posted June 12, 2015 great stuff not easy chopping and changing from a standard shotgun to a husher especially in the same session Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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