aga man Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 (edited) After a pretty dismal start to my stubble shooting, i was very happy to have received an invite to shoot some rape stubble with my old mate tan. He got intouch with the owner of some land we used to shoot 20 odd years ago and the said land has had pigeons building aon a rape stubble for a few days. Everthing was right for a good day today, and the strong warm wind was perfect. There are two rape stubbles on this farm and over the last day or so tan has observed a good 3-400 birds using the two fields. The plan was shoot a field each and hopefully keep the birds moving. More rape fields are being harvested at present and we were worried we would just push the birds to another stubble. We arrived at the fields at 10am and started to watch. The fields seemed to be void of birds but the first field had two very strong lines of pigeons crossing it and after seeing a good few hundred cross the field in 10 minutes, we decided to both set up on this field, a hide under each line one at the top of the field and me 500yds down the field. In the next 2 hours we saw well over a thousand birds come over our field, but they simply ignored our dead bird decoy displays! whatever we tried they took no notice. We picked a few birds off and one or two decoyed but the shooting was tricky in the wind and we used a good few shells. Tan got fed up after a while and went off in his truck to follw the lines, he returned half hour later to say he couldn't make sense of it and the pigeons seemed to heading for a distant wood. We decided to sit tight and hope the afternoon would encourage feeding and luckily it did and a fresh line started. The birds on the lines never returned so perhaps the were returning from a feed at 10am? but why pass over stubbles they were feeding on heavily yesterday? If even half of the birds we saw in the morning had decoyed we would of had a very heavy bag. As it turned out we couldn't grumble as we picked up 167 between us and lost a few in some peas and wheat behind us. A cracking days sport and if you're reading this tan thanks for sorting the day and putting the leg work in, i thouroghly enjoyed it. Thanks for reading. I promised PC that i would try fill the void he left when he headed fot the sun, so here you go fella, hopefully puts a smile on your face Edited August 7, 2016 by aga man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 The bearded wonder strikes again. That must have been a great day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyg Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 cracking write up and result..well done lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 Nice one !!, you done PC proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 Still a good day, your patience payed off. I am sure PC will give you 10 out of 10 for presentation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 Well done for keeping up the standard and filling the void as I'm now viewing sitting on the balcony at 1.33 am after too many beers but as I'm not driving who cares. Great result a and well done again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxwell Posted August 7, 2016 Report Share Posted August 7, 2016 An excellent write up and a cracking result, well done lads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 A perfect way to spend a Sunday aga man and if your presentation was in the current Olympics I am sure it would warrant some sort of medal, well done on all accounts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilksy II Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Great stuff gents! Love the PC style pic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydi73 Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Wow, great bag and write up, well done.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Great Write up and photo Mr AM!! Sounds like it was a great day..... Cos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 It's nice when a day turns out as you'd hoped. Pleased for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 great day aga you was due one 10 out of 10 for presentation 9 out 10 for the pic finger in the lens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 great day aga you was due one 10 out of 10 for presentation 9 out 10 for the pic finger in the lens Don't be too unkind about the picture - his dog took it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted August 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Don't be too unkind about the picture - his dog took it. He has been called a lot worse than a dog! Thanks for the comments all, it was a good day, i slept like a log last night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Well done to tan and you aga man for sitting it out. Pro job on the layout....but..........PC lays his belly up you know... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbw1shrops Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Well done Aga man a good bag by anyone's standards I'm stuck at home at the min I'm off work till Friday spending a lot of time with my 5 year old son playing football etc was watching loads of birds flighting yesterday from the woods near my house ( council ) they were going some in that wind and I thought this would be a great day for decoying but missus was at work 😱 so I've not been able to shoot any stubbles at all yet till this coming Saturday. I managed to get out last week on laid barley and picked 35 and really enjoyed myself 👍 as my shooting was spot on just couldn't miss them not sure what I was doing right for a change lol well done again 😉 Atvb dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted August 8, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Plenty of time yet for good bags Dave, the best is yet to come imo, hope you have a good day on saturday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dbw1shrops Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Ok thanks aga man hope the weather holds out for sat 😬 Atvb Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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