ROB REYNOLDS UK Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 on the way back from crow shooting the other day me and my mate rick were checking out some fields on the way home that we have ,most were dead, no signs of pigeon to talk of ,but there was one field with about 50 or so pigeon droping off the power lines in to the barley,i says shall we give it a go,( no) he says ,the pub is calling :drink_nl: so we left them too it , any way im up this morning thinking what am i going to do today ,i thinks i will go check on the pigeon from yesterday that we seen sets up at about 9 am with one pigeon flapper and a bouncer with the first two pigeon i shot they were only out about 30yrds on the layed barley next to my 15 or so pigeon shells on Z spings looked good too ,left a nice landing spot for the pigeon to try and land in .. which many did for the last time ran out of shells after two hrs only taken 80 in my bag had to go the the motor to fetch another 100 which i ran out of about 3oclk which was the time i called it a day ..shot two crows one maggie and about 120 pigeon ,i was shooting 3 0r 4 then going out and trying to find them ,the last 5 i shot i only found 1 :saddest: but i knew they were there deader than dead but i did find around 67 pigeon that i killed all by my self ,arnt i a clever boy :whistling2: the ferrets now love me more than ever now, i have a chest freezer full of pigeon which should keep them going for a week or so pigeons were droping in from behind me as i was under the main sitting tree so most did not know what hit them :sniper: most were shot about 25 too 30 yrds out but i did do some 50 yrd shots as when i ran out the first time i was useing no 6 32gm ,but the shells i fetched from the motor were no 5 32gm donky killers which dropped the pigeon very well ,all in all a good day out ,and done the way it should be done .pics off the phone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted July 23, 2007 Report Share Posted July 23, 2007 Sounds like some lively action, its a nuisance to run out of cartridges, but it is a nice feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cushat Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 What are people's thoughts on shooting over laid crops and not retrieving the birds? I appreciate you're always going to have a few you can't find, and we are out shooting to control pigeon numbers but picking up just over 50% doesn't sound like best use of a load of dead pigeons to me. I certainly wouldn't have felt very good about myself if I'd left all those birds (and no doubt some would have been runners) lying around the countryside. Better use of a "killing zone" over the laid patch would surely have increased the number of birds retrieved? I'm guessing there may have been similar arguments/discussions on here before - apologies if so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerman Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 bit of a heated debate about it in the sporting pics section. check it out if you want to see where the majority lies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerman Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 bit of a heated debate about it in the sporting pics section. check it out if you want to see where the majority lies. (nice shooting rob ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cushat Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 bit of a heated debate about it in the sporting pics section. check it out if you want to see where the majority lies. (nice shooting rob ) Ooops! Just found it - sorry for starting same debate again! I thought it would have been discussed somewhere, but couldn't find where. Rob - sorry, wasn't having a pop at you, was more of a general comment. Have now found and commented in the existing thread. So many threads, so little time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie 1 Posted July 24, 2007 Report Share Posted July 24, 2007 well done m8, good shooting there seems to be alot of pigeons around at the moment. nice pics as well. charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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