pigeon controller Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Watching the weather forcast before we went out this weekend it was as if we were being threatened with the mother of all thunder storms and and any sensible human being would have stayed at home??? So we set out at 11.30 looking for our quarry, we checked peas, turnip tops and clover and ended up on the spring rape. We set up at 14.00 after watching it for thirty minute in which time nothing joined other than the birds out of the trees we lifted off the field, this totalled approx one hundred birds. We set up in the smallest of the three fields which was down wind with the wind off our back in very humid conditions with ten thawed birds on cradles and two on the magnet. The first birds in came as if on zip wires straight to the pattern abd we had a steady flow of birds coming to the pattern as our shots spooked them off the other fields. DB had to go out so we started to pack up at 19.00 and as we did the heavans started to open so we threw it all in the Disco to keep it all dry. I took the picture after laying them out in my garage to cool and we had shot eightynine birds which was a fantastic bag for this time of year. Saturday saw me picking up DB at 11.30 and driving round looking, it was a heavy drizzle and we did not want to set up in that as all your gear including the decoys get soaked. We picked up on a flightline to a cut sileage field with a few birds down on the clover but it was an intermittent line with birds landing and others circling then going off in another direction so we followed the birds who were leaving and they took us to a seeded clover field, which had a number down and others joining. We popped to the farm to get the OK and drove down to the field to drop the gear off and then drove the disco back to the road outside the farm as the farmer had requested. We set up as the previous day and the birds came straight away it was 14.00 and we had some cracking shots but at 17.45 we started to pack up and I walked back through the farm to get the disco only to find the gates locked so I went to the house and was told that " He had gone to the Pub to watch the match" . So we had to carry the gear back from the field DB had the guns and equipment and I had eightytwo pigeons on my back and twenty four future decoys in wine bags in my hands back the four hundred metres to the disco. My Wife had recently bought me a Fitbit for my birthday with GPS so if I keel over in the fields while shooting they could find me. This measures your heart beats and I checked it when I was back at the Disco and it read 123BPM so I do not know it that is good but I was tired but felt fine. So we ended the day with one hundred and six pigeons and two corvids that came close and the weather was clear and bright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Excellent. Surely if you keeled over in a field you will want to be buried where you fell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted June 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 (edited) Excellent. Surely if you keeled over in a field you will want to be buried where you fell. Not a bad idea and cheaper??JCB, job done. Edited June 12, 2016 by pigeon controller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Back in business! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted June 11, 2016 Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 How are there even any left round your neck of the woods?!?! You always get such good numbers.. Good shooting!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 (edited) Well done again PC amazing numbers yet again, but should'ent you be in Greece now ? Eley carts I thought you yous'ed proper cartridges. Edited June 12, 2016 by dead eye alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilts#Dave Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 No wonder the Fitbit was showing that bpm with you carrying over 100 pigeons in one go, I tried that once and never again. Envious of your weekend, I haven't been out since the drillings....great stuff PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted June 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 Well done again PC amazing numbers yet again, but should'ent you be in Greece now ? Eley carts I thought you yous'ed proper cartridges. Yes I should be in Greece but my daughter decided to continue her career so we have to have the grand children after school and nursery so we will be restricted to three weeks in the school holidays rather than the normal three months. Eley carts are the Hushpower subsonics, all the birds shot this weekend were with Proper Cartridges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 Fair play to you for carrying that many dead birds on your back, you must have very achy shoulders today! Great write up as always Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 There are many on this forum, myself included, who would like to feel the strain of having eighty two pigeons on their backs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted June 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 There are many on this forum, myself included, who would like to feel the strain of having eighty two pigeons on their backs. I think DBs theory is " Why have a Donkey and work yourself " ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshMike Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 Fantastic work PC, well done. I bet the pigeons wish you were in Greece, at least they would be safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted June 12, 2016 Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 I am always impressed with your commitment each weekend in your search for pigeons and very rarely do you mump about the weather conditions , the distance you have to travel and the amount of time spent each weekend tracking down your quarry. But reading your last post I was amazed the amount you can carry back to your motor , I am no weakling myself , weighing 14 and a half stone and done manual work all my life but there is no way I could , or eve.r could carry 100+ in one go , you are one strong feller and long may it continue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted June 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2016 (edited) I am always impressed with your commitment each weekend in your search for pigeons and very rarely do you mump about the weather conditions , the distance you have to travel and the amount of time spent each weekend tracking down your quarry. But reading your last post I was amazed the amount you can carry back to your motor , I am no weakling myself , weighing 14 and a half stone and done manual work all my life but there is no way I could , or eve.r could carry 100+ in one go , you are one strong feller and long may it continue. Thanks, Birmingham born, Birmingham bred, Strong in the Shoulder and thick in the head.??? Edited June 12, 2016 by pigeon controller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrol Posted June 13, 2016 Report Share Posted June 13, 2016 Well done PC It's been a few years since my barrels have seen over a hundred birds grassed in a day A memorable Red letter day as they say Patrol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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