pecking pigeon !

[deny essex]

What are your thoughts on it from A1? I know mine

Edited March 4, 2017 by deny essex

[ShootingEgg]

Just bought a crow one, see if it does anything good

 

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[aga man]

http://www.a1decoy.co.uk/motorised-pecking-pigeon-decoy-2746-p.asp

 

Looks more like a courting pigeon to me, without a fanned tail!

[subsonicnat]

Made one a couple of years ago.

Made it with a shell body,kept me laughing all day on the lawn..

[Walker570]

OK you need a bit of wind to get movement, but you can make your own with old hacksaw blades. I added some small vanes up on the neck area to help the wind move the plastic decoy back and forth. Looks good to me. Still don't know if the pigeons like it or not.

[motty]

Says in the text that it is ultra realistic. Who writes that rubbish? I would never buy one.

Edited March 4, 2017 by motty

[Old Boggy]

It`s certainly good at catching some pigeon shooters, not sure about pigeons though !!

 

OB

[mossy835]

just another money making decoy, cant see it will work that good.think i will stick to sillo socks.

[deny essex]

Says in the text that it is ultra realistic. Who writes that rubbish? I would never buy one.

 

Agree with that I will stick to my own .

[old'un]

Waste of money, plus more gear to carry.

[A1Decoy]

Supply and demand im afraid folks! We kept getting asked for them and got sick of saying that we don't stock them. Part of the thing we love about pigeon shooting, one decoy that someone swears by another shooter will brand as the worst thing ever!

 

We try to cater for everyone's preferences,

 

If anyone has any suggestions for bits that we may have missing from our range then let us know, if enough people ask then i makes sense for us to give it a go!

[FreddytheFox]

Hello there, the great decoy debate goes on and on, which are the Best and so on !!!

Decoys are painted up good and realistic so that " YOU " the punter will take a look and say yes, I'll take a dozen of those, and off you go a very happy chappy, and so is the Gunshop Owner.

Try these then !...... after several experiments with shooting colleagues , I cut 12 pieces of very WELL weathered half round Grey guttering, cut to 14 inches in length, two splogges of white paint either side based on where a pigeons Kneck Bars are, nothing else. 1974/5/6 ish.

 

Good shells and a few full bodies were deployed 3/400 yards away, guite a few times we did this.

Guess What, these 14 inch pieces of guttering cleaned up just as well on those days as the Decoys did

Goes to show, when that pigeon is setting, and heading for the killing ground !......if he is not dead when he is in range at spotting that grey mass and two White Kneck Bars .....PACK UP....Bye your self some Golf Clubs and join a Sky Diving Club, as well.

 

What do Pigeons see every day and don't take a bit of notice of ? YES, VEHICLES !!!

Put your mota, In the middle of a stubble field, Any colour, put your decoys out or you old pieces of guttering open the door sit still and you will clean up .......all this has been tried and tested with very good results in the past. MOVEMENT is the key, not Camoflage as we all seem to think and stick to. Put up a net in front if you want But, just hold still, don't even smart you face up with camo paints and the such likes. You've ony got to get it off, and you look a right Plonka in the Pub after if youv'e had a good day, and left it on.

 

Best Regards Freddy.....Just my few observations over the years shooting pigeons, so who am I to learn Gramar how to suck Chucky Eggs.

[wymberley]

Looks to be a re-vamp of 'Pecking Percy'. I got two but now use one for 'Mother's 'at'. Now that really does work.

[FreddytheFox]

Hello again, Why when pigeon shooting should you go out into the Field with loads of tackle, seats, bags, nets, whizzers, decoys galore, hide poles, portable chemical toilet, kitchen sink, etc,etc,etc.

When you can travel Light and Fast, just as the Apache did

Gun, ammo, and knife........no decoys, use the hedgerows for concealment, build up half a dozen birds, study where they are on the move to, and deploy your gain there.

Ok, your 50 yards away from the area you should have put down on.......leave them there and quickly move again till you get it bang on.

 

Nothing worse than setting up hide poles, nets, decoys all out, all tackle set up, Whizzer racing round like something in the Fairground ?

And low and behold, Mr Columba Palumbus decides to put down with his mates, on the opposite corner of the field your shooting

Have you been there ?..........I have many times......What do you do ?......Stay put and hope they will come to you to play Ball, OR pick up stakes and set up OVER THERE. .?!?!?! Nope they will come and perch on top of your poles and net.

 

No, you just think and move quickly, and light like those Apache did, Remember that if you clean up big time and have a Bostin Day, all that Gear, and all those Woodies don't half weigh up to quite a few Poundiges you know. And you will be even more knackered taking them all back to the mota........did 200 plus once on 2inch high rape popping out of a smattering of over night snow ! Only this high rise of green could be seen for miles, and I was the one shooting it. Ten to each plastic supermarket bags! Twenty like a Chinese Cooly on two hide poles on my right shoulder ( can you see it )........I shot sportingly all those pigeons.......those pigeons very nearly got their own back, and put me in the grave, my van was at least 800 yards away due to where this field was situated, and I made guite a mess going back and forth sinking deeper n deeper with carrying 40 pigeons each trip, couldn't do that now at 68.

 

So the conclusion is :- go to SHOOT pigeons and don't take a load of unwanted **** with you

 

Regards Freddy...........there I go agen sucking Gramars Chucky Eggs .

[motty]

I didn't know the Apaches shot pigeons. I have learned so much on this forum.

[Wilksy II]

I didn't know the Apaches shot pigeons. I have learned so much on this forum.

You can always tell an Apache shot pigeon the feathers are missing from the top of its head and the arrow sticking in its back!

[bakerboy]

I didn't know the Apaches shot pigeons. I have learned so much on this forum.

We need to "HOW"

[bakerboy]

I have two pecking pigeons that I inherited, do they work any better than a half shell on a spring stick ?NO

They look OK on a windless day on stubble, would I buy them, then I have to say "no I wouldn't.

 

My favourite item is a flapper.

[old'un]

Hello there, the great decoy debate goes on and on, which are the Best and so on !!!

Decoys are painted up good and realistic so that " YOU " the punter will take a look and say yes, I'll take a dozen of those, and off you go a very happy chappy, and so is the Gunshop Owner.

Try these then !...... after several experiments with shooting colleagues , I cut 12 pieces of very WELL weathered half round Grey guttering, cut to 14 inches in length, two splogges of white paint either side based on where a pigeons Kneck Bars are, nothing else. 1974/5/6 ish.

 

Good shells and a few full bodies were deployed 3/400 yards away, guite a few times we did this.

Guess What, these 14 inch pieces of guttering cleaned up just as well on those days as the Decoys did

Goes to show, when that pigeon is setting, and heading for the killing ground !......if he is not dead when he is in range at spotting that grey mass and two White Kneck Bars .....PACK UP....Bye your self some Golf Clubs and join a Sky Diving Club, as well.

 

What do Pigeons see every day and don't take a bit of notice of ? YES, VEHICLES !!!

Put your mota, In the middle of a stubble field, Any colour, put your decoys out or you old pieces of guttering open the door sit still and you will clean up .......all this has been tried and tested with very good results in the past. MOVEMENT is the key, not Camoflage as we all seem to think and stick to. Put up a net in front if you want But, just hold still, don't even smart you face up with camo paints and the such likes. You've ony got to get it off, and you look a right Plonka in the Pub after if youv'e had a good day, and left it on.

 

Best Regards Freddy.....Just my few observations over the years shooting pigeons, so who am I to learn Gramar how to suck Chucky Eggs.

+1

 

 

 

Those pigeons would have to-be awfully close to see those pecking decoys, in fact they would more than likely be with shooting range, don't bother with them waste of money and more kit to carry.

[pigeon controller]

Hello there, the great decoy debate goes on and on, which are the Best and so on !!!

Decoys are painted up good and realistic so that " YOU " the punter will take a look and say yes, I'll take a dozen of those, and off you go a very happy chappy, and so is the Gunshop Owner.

Try these then !...... after several experiments with shooting colleagues , I cut 12 pieces of very WELL weathered half round Grey guttering, cut to 14 inches in length, two splogges of white paint either side based on where a pigeons Kneck Bars are, nothing else. 1974/5/6 ish.

Good shells and a few full bodies were deployed 3/400 yards away, guite a few times we did this.

Guess What, these 14 inch pieces of guttering cleaned up just as well on those days as the Decoys did

Goes to show, when that pigeon is setting, and heading for the killing ground !......if he is not dead when he is in range at spotting that grey mass and two White Kneck Bars .....PACK UP....Bye your self some Golf Clubs and join a Sky Diving Club, as well.

What do Pigeons see every day and don't take a bit of notice of ? YES, VEHICLES !!!

Put your mota, In the middle of a stubble field, Any colour, put your decoys out or you old pieces of guttering open the door sit still and you will clean up .......all this has been tried and tested with very good results in the past. MOVEMENT is the key, not Camoflage as we all seem to think and stick to. Put up a net in front if you want But, just hold still, don't even smart you face up with camo paints and the such likes. You've ony got to get it off, and you look a right Plonka in the Pub after if youv'e had a good day, and left it on.

Best Regards Freddy.....Just my few observations over the years shooting pigeons, so who am I to learn Gramar how to suck Chucky Eggs.

 

D B's older brothers have used the gutter trick they also used narrow necked milk bottle painted with grey primer and white neck and wing bars. Three out in the field first bird shot put on a frame as an angel. Many more to follow.

[wymberley]

D B's older brothers have used the gutter trick they also used narrow necked milk bottle painted with grey primer and white neck and wing bars. Three out in the field first bird shot put on a frame as an angel. Many more to follow.

Anyone remember the pattern in the Shooting Times which would be utilised to cut out the required shape from a LP sleeve which would then be appropriately folded in-side-out - the inside being grey?

[TIGHTCHOKE]

What's an LP?

[wymberley]

What's an LP?

Yep, should have mentioned that the post was for the more mature shooter.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Elderly!

[old'un]

I remember an article in the shooting times where they made some decoys that were two or three times bigger than real life pigeons and they worked but that was when pigeons were uneducated and us older pigeon shooters would spend the evenings listening to our gramophone records before turning them into decoys or fruit bowls.