motty Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 I had my regular drive around a few spots on Friday. I already had a feeling where I would end up the next day. A farmer had given me the heads up that he would be drilling barley on Thursday, and he said there would likely be a bit spilled due to the imperfect seed bed. I had already been to look at some rape and several acres of freshly planted beans. The beans looked a waste of time, but a couple of rape fields may have served as back-up fields. As I parked up to look at the barley field I could see very little activity. Then I reached for the binoculars. Over half way down I could see 500 pigeons tucking in. Good. I then looked down to see several little red barley grains scattered on the soil surface. I didn't think I could take the chance and leave it until Sunday, so I phoned Jules and asked for his attendance for the next day. We probably turned up a bit too early the next morning. Jules thought it extremely funny to tell me that someone had beaten us too it. My heart sank until he admitted he was jesting. ****! I knew where to set up, from previous experience on the field. I also knew that most of the pigeons would come from behind the hide position. Things were slow to get going. Jules thought I had made a mistake. I was only slightly concerned... When the flight did commence, we weren't getting the expected nice decoying birds. We tinkered with the pattern, but no matter what we did, the majority of the birds seemed to bypass us. It didn't really matter, as we decided to flight them. One of us manned the decoys, whilst the other took the birds coming from behind us. This seemed to work well, though in the wind we had some very tricky pigeons to contend with. The Express 32 gram steel 4s did the job admirably when we did our bit. Likewise, the Eley 24 gram 7.5 did fine with the medium range birds. The flight lasted a while, but alas, all good things come to an end, and all too soon. We finished on 108 pigeons, 2 crows, a rook and a jackdaw. It's Jules' turn to take me out on one of his drilled fields tomorrow....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 A great result, well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 Sweet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitebridges Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 Beautiful motty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted April 3, 2017 Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 Great bag, those birds look to be in lovely condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilksy II Posted April 4, 2017 Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 Good shooting motty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted April 4, 2017 Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 Good on the Eminems. Is that your young dog Motty? From my observations of spring drillings this year pigeons seem to be late finding them and when they do they are feeding from mid afternoon onwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted April 4, 2017 Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 Nicely done gents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sako751sg Posted April 4, 2017 Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 Fine bag for this time fella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted April 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 Yes, J, that is Boomer, my young lab. He has just turned 2 years old. He is doing most of his jobs very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lloydi73 Posted April 4, 2017 Report Share Posted April 4, 2017 Nice bag Motty, well done...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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