NickB65 Posted May 30, 2016 Report Share Posted May 30, 2016 Well the wife was getting her haircut Saturday afternoon and out horse riding all day Sunday so Blue and I went for a little shooting..... The rape field has only 50% set and where the seed did not take it is full of weeds and chick weed.... I think that is what the farmer called it... anyway they love it. I arrived Sat around 1pm and sat under a tree near the beehives and for about an hour watched the pigeons fly in and out from the copse behind me and over the road to another field. I tried the flapper, bouncers, magnet and a plethora and patterns and they just were not interested...... so Blue and I went walk about. We left the kit where it was and mooched around the edges of the copse (not our permission) and sat amongst was it high cow parsley and had some great sport with really high birds..... Blue loved keeping around like a typical ESS and found every bird without any issue. So.... Sunday we got there t 9am and set-up in the weeds in the old hide and made ourselves at home. When we got there about 200+ birds lifted off the weeds so I knew they liked it..... it just took another 6 hours for them to come back. Now some may say wasted time but sat there in the hide I could see what deer we had, fox, rabbit, hare and what flight lines the birds were using. We mooched around a little when Blue got too bored... ok when I got bored but we learnt a lot. At around 4pm the flight lines got busters and a lone bird came straight in and dropped with the first shot. I armed the flapper - the one I have a remote for - and placed it close and exactly where I wanted them. I left the flapper switched off until I saw them come into the copse and then I flicked the flapper on until they saw it and then I switched it off for a few beats and then back on...... worked like a dream. In the next hour we bagged 26..... slow going but so much fun. Playing with the flapper to see how they reacted taught me a lot....... Next weekend the wife is away ALL weekend.... guys we will be putting the flapper to more use :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted May 30, 2016 Report Share Posted May 30, 2016 That sounds like time well spent, you learn a lot from watching and (IMO) 26 birds in an hour is not slow at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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