pigeon controller Posted September 24, 2016 Report Share Posted September 24, 2016 This weekend DB had to work so I was solo, I'd been watching the pea field we shot last week and it had a good number of birds on it midweek but as I looked at it on Friday morning about ten it had no birds crossing or down. I drove around all our stubbles and could not find anything worth setting up for. Forty miles on I was back at the pea field, during the week they had cut the beans in the ajoining fields and as I scanned the beans I could see four birds down feeding hard. Now I would not normally set up with four birds feeding but this is an afternoon field and it was 12.00. This also is a shared permission with Bunny Blaster and others so I wanted to shoot it today. I drove to the hedge with the wind off my back and set up, ten on spikes and two on the magnet. The first bird in was shot and about eighty birds lifted out of the trees around the field. It was steady shooting all afternoon BB joined me about 17.00 and we chatted in the hide and he had a couple of good shots with my gun . I stopped shooting at approx 18.00 and started to pick up the birds , BB went with his two dogs and picked up a further twenty plus birds from the thick hedges. We discusse the shooting for Saturday and he said he was going to shoot a field of stubble turnips the Farmer had asked him to shoot and invited me to join him. He then had six of my original decoys to use tomorrow. I collected up and picked one hundred and sixty birds. Saturday morning I blasted down the motorway so I could weave my way back along the country roads, all I could find was growing rape and seeded fields no stubble at all. BB phoned me and said that he had looked at the turnips and it had about twenty birds on it and also he had looked at the bean stubble on another farm and they were working it in. I asked when he had seen the birds on the turnips in the week and it was late afternoon I suggested that they were trying to get some moisture out of the leaves he again offered to share the field but as I had shot the beans the day before I told him to fill his boots as this is another shared permission. I went to the bean stubble and they had stopped working it and left, it had a few birds flighting but not committing to the beans but to other fields around. I went to the farmer and he said carry on . It was now 12.00 and I set up with the wind hard off my back on a hedge between the beans. I only had the six decoys from the day before as I'd layed out all the birds from the day before in the garage. So I put my six out on spikes on the left hand field. It was very slow at the start but I soon had eighteen birds out as decoys , so I decided to experiment and collected eighteen further decoys as I shot them and placed them on the righthand field and then placed two angels in the lefthand pattern to see if they prefered either. I finished shooting at 18.00 and the lefthand pattern with the angels had fiftyeight birds and the righthand pattern had fortytwo birds. The day was very windy and the presentaion of the birds was first class with some coming passed with the wind, it was difficult to throw the gun forward enough to give the required lead, but it was memorable shooting with picking up exactly one hundred birds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6.5x55SE Posted September 24, 2016 Report Share Posted September 24, 2016 Top Shooting as per normal and good photos to match 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollieollie Posted September 24, 2016 Report Share Posted September 24, 2016 Good stuff once again pc, you really do need a dog! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr D Posted September 24, 2016 Report Share Posted September 24, 2016 Top class Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted September 24, 2016 Report Share Posted September 24, 2016 top drawer again pc good move going back to the bean stubble it paid off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Excellent. Saturdays wind was just great for shooting wasn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Always thought DB was your secret weapon! Perhaps not, great shooting PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telf Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 well done again that man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Always thought DB was your secret weapon! Perhaps not, great shooting PC. You've guessed it , I normally get him to wear a large white sugical neck brace and walk around the pattern to give it life!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Well done,sir. Nice to see you still have a bit of fun and experiment with your set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Well done,sir. Nice to see you still have a bit of fun and experiment with your set up. Yes I do enjoy my shooting and your never to old to learn. It's as I've said before remember what works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuddster Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 another top effort. when you say wind "off your back"-does that mean you're facing into the wind or the other way round? cheers f. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 another top effort. when you say wind "off your back"-does that mean you're facing into the wind or the other way round? cheers f. The wind was blowing from behind me so the birds had to come straight into my twin patterns each side of the fence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browning123 Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Great shooting pigeon controller - do you ever suffer with tinitus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Great shooting pigeon controller - do you ever suffer with tinitus? Due to being too macho, and not wearing ear protection I've lost 50% in my left ear and 25% in my right ear and suffer constant tinnitus in both, it is totally self inflicted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
browning123 Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Due to being too macho, and not wearing ear protection I've lost 50% in my left ear and 25% in my right ear and suffer constant tinnitus in both, it is totally self inflicted. Yes, similar to myself - I fired thousands of cartridges over the early years with no ear protection, lost 75% in left ear and 50% in the right, I also have severe tinitus in both ears which sometimes almost drives me crackers. I was told to stop shooting by my Ear Consultant, but to give up shooting I may as well stop living - I now wear the best ear protection available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOXHUNTER1 Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Brilliant , wouldn't expect any other though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mel b3 Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 only 260 ? , bit of a slow weekend by your standards lol , youre the digweed of pigeonwatch and the guy that we all want to be when we grow up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stugarford Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 Great bags as usual PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 25, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 only 260 ? , bit of a slow weekend by your standards lol , youre the digweed of pigeonwatch and the guy that we all want to be when we grow up. Sorry Mel, I'll try harder next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr D Posted September 25, 2016 Report Share Posted September 25, 2016 only 260 ? , bit of a slow weekend by your standards lol , youre the digweed of pigeonwatch and the guy that we all want to be when we grow up. [/quot Digweed !?!! No way. He just shoots straight, this gent has fieldcraft and good darts. Week after week. Month after month. OBE for services to decoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 Week in and week out P C never fail to come up trumps , what is the secret ? , sheer hard work , dedicated to pigeon shooting and a vast amount of knowledge of pigeon movement , crops , flight lines and being able to read a situation and get the maximum out of it . We all have the odd good day from time to time but to do it not only once a week but two days running what seems like every week is way beyond most peoples capabilities and all I can keep saying is well done and like I have said in the past , he is now in a league of his own and someone we all look up to and admire . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted September 26, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 Week in and week out P C never fail to come up trumps , what is the secret ? , sheer hard work , dedicated to pigeon shooting and a vast amount of knowledge of pigeon movement , crops , flight lines and being able to read a situation and get the maximum out of it . We all have the odd good day from time to time but to do it not only once a week but two days running what seems like every week is way beyond most peoples capabilities and all I can keep saying is well done and like I have said in the past , he is now in a league of his own and someone we all look up to and admire . You are so kind but I'm not super human , far from it. Those birds are out there you just have to find them or as you say remember the pattern of that farm i.e. Morning or afternoon feeding. We have local farms that I'm unable to shoot due to other shooters who have permission but we never see shoot, these build up a nucleus of birds who we take advantage of by intersecting the flightlines on farms we can shoot which helps in maintaining numbers in the area. We are now entering the quiet period when the birds will be in the woods feeding on the Autumn harvest but the game shooters and beaters will disturb them and push them on the rape etc. Pigeon shooting is cyclical and to a point predicable you just have to learn how to read it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 Another good result and well deserved, just reading your reports its clear to see how hard you work for your rewards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshMike Posted September 26, 2016 Report Share Posted September 26, 2016 Cracking as usual Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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