steveyg Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 With most of the barley and rape being cut this week . will this be the best weekend of the year?? I hope so..two rape fields to have a go at over the weekend.. Happy days 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Hope so! had a look at some stubble on the way home this evening, about 150 birds on it and the flight line along one side has been having 100 to 150 bird movements an hour for the last couple of weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Good luck Steveyg. Â Don't take your old man if you want to shoot 100 yourself. You always put him in the best place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyg Posted August 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Good luck Steveyg. Don't take your old man if you want to shoot 100 yourself. You always put him in the best place. I would pay good money to watch him nail a good bag .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 I think the best shooting is still to come , at least I hope so as just like last year the harvest has been very poor for me so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 This weekend might be good for some , but we are now in the position where there have been a lot of fields been combined this week , my problem is, rape stubbles being pulled up the next day , most of the upland shooting is now out of bounds ( due to young game birds in the pens ) and if that is not enough the forecast is mid 20s with very light winds. Â Mind you , I will still be on a field somewhere tomorrow even if its only for a bit of sun bathing . Good luck to the ones who will be out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawntredder Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 I will be out for 1st time in almost a year (personal probs) so need to get me eye in for the coming fowling season...never been this long since I pulled the trigger....erratic me thinks!! Also give me a chance to have word with one farmer about shooting on open day of season for the geese ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickerup Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 Good luck Steveyg. Â Don't take your old man if you want to shoot 100 yourself. You always put him in the best place. . Out with steveyg last sunday afternoon on rape stubble, we ended the afternoon with 10 pigeons, back on the same field yesterday, with john my usual shooting shooting buddy we picked up 119. On an adjoining field of barley stubble last Friday john and I had a bag of 276. Â Could this mean the jinx is still alive and kicking. Â I would be interested in your thoughts on this. atb pickerup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 . Out with steveyg last sunday afternoon on rape stubble, we ended the afternoon with 10 pigeons, back on the same field yesterday, with john my usual shooting shooting buddy we picked up 119. On an adjoining field of barley stubble last Friday john and I had a bag of 276.  Could this mean the jinx is still alive and kicking.  I would be interested in your thoughts on this. atb pickerup  Did he ever go away????  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyg Posted August 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 . Out with steveyg last sunday afternoon on rape stubble, we ended the afternoon with 10 pigeons, back on the same field yesterday, with john my usual shooting shooting buddy we picked up 119. On an adjoining field of barley stubble last Friday john and I had a bag of 276.  Could this mean the jinx is still alive and kicking.    I would be interested in your thoughts on this. atb pickerup  I thought I could hear shooting while I was stuck in my office working :( another cracking bag pickerup. Timing is everything and I think the combine working behind us did'nt help..hey ho the jinx lives on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numpty Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 This weekend might be good for some , but we are now in the position where there have been a lot of fields been combined this week , my problem is, rape stubbles being pulled up the next day , most of the upland shooting is now out of bounds ( due to young game birds in the pens ) and if that is not enough the forecast is mid 20s with very light winds. Â Mind you , I will still be on a field somewhere tomorrow even if its only for a bit of sun bathing . Good luck to the ones who will be out. As above, there is now a lot of choice for the birds, watched yesterday a good flight of birds passing over a cut rape field with around 300 on the ground to pitch in 3 fields over on laid wheat, then watched the same happen again a couple of miles away. Plenty of birds around but timing crucial, be prepared to drop everything to hit them on the day they really want a particular field, in a particular spot, as they say in sales, you snooze, you lose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitchrat Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Hope so! had a look at some stubble on the way home this evening, about 150 birds on it and the flight line along one side has been having 100 to 150 bird movements an hour for the last couple of weeks Can't go wrong then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????? OR can it? The unpredictable nature of pigeon shooting makes it such a challenge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 Can't go wrong then!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ? ? ? ??? OR can it? The unpredictable nature of pigeon shooting makes it such a challenge. Turned out to be a great day1 I got on to the field at about 1015 and there were about 75 to 100 birds in three groups and a few more flying about. I set up where the middle group had been using 12 shells, got the first couple with in 10 minutes then it when quiet for a couple of hours just the odd one or two came in from time to time and I couldn't hit them! Ended the first couple of hours with eight, then just before 1 the numbers started to build up twos and threes coming in every 5 minutes or so and I started to hit some of them Then I get a phone call to drop the Mrs off for a works do as her lift had let her down, so just as the birds were coming and I was getting my eye in I had to pack up now on 21. I got back and set up again by 4 and and had 3 hours of good sport, by me reckoning I was on 99 Just needed that one more! It must have taken me 10 shots to get it and on my last 2 cartridges. On counting up I had picked up 95 plus 6 I couldn't get to in thick brambles 101 !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Turned out to be a great day1 I got on to the field at about 1015 and there were about 75 to 100 birds in three groups and a few more flying about. I set up where the middle group had been using 12 shells, got the first couple with in 10 minutes then it when quiet for a couple of hours just the odd one or two came in from time to time and I couldn't hit them! Ended the first couple of hours with eight, then just before 1 the numbers started to build up twos and threes coming in every 5 minutes or so and I started to hit some of them Then I get a phone call to drop the Mrs off for a works do as her lift had let her down, so just as the birds were coming and I was getting my eye in I had to pack up now on 21. I got back and set up again by 4 and and had 3 hours of good sport, by me reckoning I was on 99 Just needed that one more! It must have taken me 10 shots to get it and on my last 2 cartridges. On counting up I had picked up 95 plus 6 I couldn't get to in thick brambles 101 !! Well done , result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesj Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 Think I'll be taking an afternoon off in the week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dad Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I think the best shooting is still to come , at least I hope so as just like last year the harvest has been very poor for me so far. ours is almost finished 2days on r/stubble mon/tues i was at work pulled up by week end our major rape about 400 acres shot nil, peas cut on a non perm same time rape pulled up peas still there 2 weeks later all wheat cut last 5 days only a dozen birds here and there. just waiting for a bit of spring barley then we are finished,800 acre farm had pheasants 3 weeks ago 1200 acre 2weeks ago 500 acre next week all become restricted access Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I think the best shooting is still to come , at least I hope so as just like last year the harvest has been very poor for me so far. The only time it got better was on Bean stubble, which is normally the last crop to be combined on my main bit of shooting land and unless it is on the boundary I am afraid the rest of the land is now out of bounds , so I think the best is already hear for myself as I cant see it getting much better. Â Having said that , there are new Wheat stubbles each day they combine down the marsh, and there are still enough about for a half decent afternoon . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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