mossy835 Posted September 17, 2019 Report Share Posted September 17, 2019 young birds are not about where i am not like last year.i shot loads but this year not seen many at all.wonder why this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 17, 2019 Report Share Posted September 17, 2019 Because you shot them all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRDS Posted September 17, 2019 Report Share Posted September 17, 2019 Same here, with the GL debacle I have only been out half a dozen times and shot maybe 150 or so of which I think 2 were young birds and my shooting partner has had just the same experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 17, 2019 Report Share Posted September 17, 2019 56 minutes ago, mossy835 said: young birds are not about where i am not like last year.i shot loads but this year not seen many at all.wonder why this is. 3 minutes ago, JRDS said: Same here, with the GL debacle I have only been out half a dozen times and shot maybe 150 or so of which I think 2 were young birds and my shooting partner has had just the same experience. Must be different in other areas , if you read JDogs post last week and a piece I put on about a little go I had , we both mentioned young pigeons , in Jdog thread he was saying he shot 40 odd and nearly two thirds were young, and I left some very young ones and I finished with around half young and half old . Last Saturday afternoon we had another go and the young to old were about the same . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRDS Posted September 17, 2019 Report Share Posted September 17, 2019 Strange or maybe a strange occurance that we have just not had the chance but they are about, who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted September 18, 2019 Report Share Posted September 18, 2019 There's quite a few about young burfs round these parts. About average for the time of year I'd say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilts#Dave Posted September 18, 2019 Report Share Posted September 18, 2019 Plenty of young birds about where we are too, as many as I’d normally expect to see anyway! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hitman Posted September 19, 2019 Report Share Posted September 19, 2019 There is a few young pigeons in my patch, however I don’t shot them if I can’t see white neck bars( just my personal choice) , but impossible to tell when they are over your head. Hitman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wooder Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 (edited) Went out last Saturday shot 18, 50% of them were youngsters. Edited September 20, 2019 by Wooder spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeside1000 Posted September 20, 2019 Report Share Posted September 20, 2019 Similar story around here, I had 61 off some wheat stubble on Thursday and at least 1/3 of them were this years birds, some were full grown with white neck bars but the majority of the youngsters were small , but still pigeons and still eating farmers crops so sad but necessary. I did avoid shooting several that got in under the radar close enough for me to identify them as young and small so a few left to grow on for another day, but they may not be so lucky next time they venture in over my decoys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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