aga man Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 After an excellent roost session last night during which i managed some real testing birds, i was up for a spot of decoying today. I had been invited to help shoot some pigeons on a rape field which as had some damaging attention off the woodies. As always at this time of year the pigeons have proved very tricky here and despite good numbers being present most days, others that have shot the field had only managed a few birds. After a breif reccy of the field it was clear the pigeon were hitting a patch of the field that required a 200 metre walk fully laden with kit over wet sticky ground. We set up a net hide around a telegraph pole and set up a magnet with dead birds, a floater and 4 dead birds on cradles. The wind was roughly 15mph at our back and coming from the north east, which can be painfully bitter round this part of yorkshire. Before too long the first pigeon decoyed perfectly. I left my gun in the slip and let the lad i was out with have some shooting as it was a while since he had shot real birds! It showed and after two barrels the first pigeon departed the decoys in pefect health!! It took a while for him to get to grips, but eventually he did and we started to build a bag. Some large buches of birds approached but we didn't shoot at these to prevent spooking them and tried to focus on the one's and two's. This seemed to work ok and we managed a bag of 32 pigeons in 4 hours before eventually the birds stopped coming. We endured some fairly heavy snow showers {you can see the snow on the birds in first picture} and the slog back with all the kit and the dead birds was knackering for a pair of fat lads of 40 years old!! The farmer was chuffed at our efforts and we both enjoyed the afternoon as did Tom my labrador, he has had a busy weekend on the pigeons. Not a huge bag but as good as i can manage at the minute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenboy Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 Well done , I think any bag into double figures is decent enough on rape at this time of year . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitsinhedges Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 Yep, good job done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 You done well to stick the cold out aga man , I was in a wood all yesterday afternoon , it was cold but I had a bit of shelter from the trees , if anything today is colder and you Yorkshire boys must be pretty hard to sit around a telegraph pool in snow showers . Still I bet you didn't have any flies to contend with by the way , not a bad bag for the time you were there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 No mention of Valentines celebrations I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted February 14, 2016 Report Share Posted February 14, 2016 Great result for a short sesion, well done for letting the lad have first shots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underdog Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 40 year olds, whipper snappers lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted February 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 No mention of Valentines celebrations I see. Touchy subject! just been and bought some flowers now! 40 year olds, whipper snappers lol Long while since i snapped any whips, feel like 60 some days! hard paper round Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wilksy Posted February 15, 2016 Report Share Posted February 15, 2016 Good work mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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