JDog Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 (edited) By Thursday I had done 400 miles looking for decoying opportunities. Specsavers can't help if there are none to see. On Thursday afternoon I took Jasper out and saw a line across a barley drilling. I watched for an hour and it looked good, so good that I contacted Mightymariner to see if he wanted to come out with me on Friday morning. It was just as well that he decided to stay at home polishing his new Landrover as I never saw a pigeon. I returned that afternoon and still never saw a bird. However on the way home with clean barrels I saw 300 pigeons on drilling. Last year I met someone in a gateway to the same field watching for pigeons and we exchanged numbers but I have not seen him since. I texted him to say that there were pigeons on his land. This morning he called to say that he was on his way there and if there were pigeons would I like to join him. Being only five miles away from where I was sitting looking into a bright blue sky devoid of pigeons I was there like a shot when he called. He had already set up by the time I got there and I joined him in his hide and we took turns to shoot. There were indeed several hundred pigeons and the odd one peeled away from the main lot and came into the decoys. We noticed that the line went elsewhere and after an hour or so I asked him if I could go and stand along a line of beeches where the birds were heading to keep them moving to which he readily agreed. I shot for two hours on the line and he stayed where he was and together we had some good sport. We picked forty nine and a half pigeons, the half compliments of a female sparrow hawk which had taken the head and **** out of one which fell out of sight. Edited March 25, 2017 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 Great result. Nice to come good after all of the effort you put in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun57 Posted March 25, 2017 Report Share Posted March 25, 2017 nice result kindness repaid with kindness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJW Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 Glad you had some luck in the end! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilksy II Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 I've still got the dictionary to hand from last big word! Nice that someone was able to offer you some shooting after all your generosity! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 I've said it before that I believe in Karma and you prove it. You offer a helping hand and you have one extended to you. Well done and a great result. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted March 26, 2017 Report Share Posted March 26, 2017 (edited) What a glorious day to be out shooting. Goes to show you have to always keep looking out for opportunities. Edited March 26, 2017 by aga man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippylawkid Posted March 27, 2017 Report Share Posted March 27, 2017 If only everyone was as give and take as that. Your good form continues! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2-dead-in-the-air Posted April 1, 2017 Report Share Posted April 1, 2017 Glad to see your back at it, I drove around this week looking at drillings and only saw about 10 pigeons !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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