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With all the talk about getting bags on OSR and also the lack of pigeons in certain areas this tends to put pressure on the drive around looking for birds. You find the birds then you keep asking the question will they return?? when was it shot last?? do we set up??. All these thoughts are going through your mind as you keep travelling the local area scanning the fields .Friday saw us completing seventy miles and ending up on the same flock we have shot for the passed five weeks in the knowledge that others have shot them the farmer has carried out a game shoot over the same land and the birds are still here agian in numbers. So what do you do, set up where the birds want to be, even though its the coldest part of the field. Use a method that you have not used on this land before, two magnets and eight birds on cradles on the tallest rape. Wait for them to return, which they do in a flock of fifty plus and shoot two. Well thats what we did on Friday DB went off to find them when they did not return , walked down to another rape field and spooked them out of a wood they use as a sanctury. While he was away two came in, on his return we had a few smaller flocks return but we could see the birds dropping in on the top of the field so had to shoot to spook then to come within range. We ended the day with thirtyseven which was good for this field.

 

Today was a good frosty morning with interesting road conditions. We made the concious decision to leave the area and drove south west away from Brum in the hope of finding some new flocks to shoot at . We keep saying that this year is strange in the way the birds are reacting and the numbers around. Two of our farms which are heavily game shot are also good pigeon farms but today they had nothing on the rape. After another forty miles we found about eighty feeding hard on a sunny bank on the thawed rape. Contacted the farmer who informed us that the game shooting had finished so fill your boots. Now we had a very slight breeze but a very bright sun so the set up was to have the birds come into the decoys from the right with our hide shielding us from the sun on the left. This work well and we had a steady trickle of birds commit to the decoys. Then the breeze strengthened straight into our faces , so the birds came over our heads to the pattern , we could not move the hide as the shooting position would have been dangerous due to roads and houses. We shot till 15.30 and picked up eightyfive birds but it was a satisfying day in the end.

 

 

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Another great result PC, just out of intrest to you know all the farmers in your area or do you ask new farmers ? Have you ever been turned down permission ??

When we see pigeon we ask , we have been turned down a too many times but we keep asking . We have obtained permission from recommendations also. I started on my own 27 years ago I still shoot my first farm regularly and obtained adjoining farms after asking and telling them to contact my first farm for references. Met up with DB and his brothers as we had permission overlap . Now shoot with DB and share permissions. I also have permission overlap with some PW members.

When you see then on the crop ask for a day , at the end of the day thank them and text them a picture , when you see the birds down again ask for another day.

 

DON'T ABUSE PERMISSIONS TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT.

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"It's not always easy"

 

Never a truer word spoken I think. I've been driving past a small rape field every day this last week and have seen pigeons on it at first light, mid morning and late in the afternoon.

So, Saturday gave me my first chance to have a go at them so I decided to just get set up for first light.

At about 8.10am the first pigeon came straight into the decoys and was added to the pattern. 5 minutes later a small group came in and one shot killed another.

 

I thought to myself this is looking good but with two quick misses following before 8.30am that proved to be it for the morning and I left at 10.00am with two pigeons to my name. All very frustrating because the pigeons are clearly decimating about a third of this particular field. No, it's not always easy, but you seem to be pretty good at making it look so!

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