bernie garland Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Hi all Just thought I'd share a cracking evening. Out last night with Paul, Jim and his son from Derby on my first wildfowl shoot. We arrived at 6pm at Weston on Trent Derby, started flagging the bottom of the barley stubble straight away as we'd been watching the geese for 2 days and where they were feeding was a bit too close to overlooking houses. So tried to decoy them to the top of the field for pr purposes. After flagging we placed the hide and decoys where we wanted to take them After setting up the first skien came in from behind us at about 7pm with brilliant calling from Paul and Jim. We didn't shoot them as they came in from behind and landed in the middle of the field Paul and Jim kept calling and skiens kept coming in none stop it was a wonder to watch. Below is a pic of the middle of the field, you can see the skien still coming in above the houses As they were all in the middle of the field Paul decided to walk them. Then all hell broke loose. They were coming in at us about 4ft off the ground and as I am green to this sort of thing didn't know which one to shoot as there were that many I took my first shot and missed but took the 2nd and 3rd killing a bird with each shot B) believe me there must have been 200 geese plus coming over the top of us in what seemed to be a split second. My first experience of this sort of decoying and I will definitely be doing it again. After all the shooting it went clear till just before dusk then another 2 skiens came in and we nailed a few more. Total at the end of the evening was....... you all have a laugh 10 canadas and 1 greylag Have set it up to go again Saturday evening, I wont be shooting, I will be videoing so I could post it for you all to see And just for the record I shot 3 in total but one of the best evenings for me Cheers Bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie 1 Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 congrats m8, sounds like a brilliant evening. And some nice pics hope you have another good outing at the weekend. and am looking forward to seeing the video of the weekends trip. keep it up charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKIE Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 nice 1 m8 good shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rabgoat Posted September 14, 2007 Report Share Posted September 14, 2007 good job bernie nice pics,looking forward to the video :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tikkamark Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 Nice pics bernie thanks for sharing them :blink: There seems to be a fair few sitting out in the middle of the field in that last pic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auto culto Posted September 15, 2007 Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 nice one. Can i ask how much and where did the decoys come from as all i can find are ones that cost £75 for 4 which is a bit steep for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bernie garland Posted September 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2007 nice one. Can i ask how much and where did the decoys come from as all i can find are ones that cost £75 for 4 which is a bit steep for me. hi mate 12 decs where bought fom cabellas usa years ago,the rest were made from for sale sign plastic cut out and painted by jims wife, so just by 2 one feeding and 1 on lookout and make the rest cheers bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auto culto Posted September 16, 2007 Report Share Posted September 16, 2007 nice one. Can i ask how much and where did the decoys come from as all i can find are ones that cost £75 for 4 which is a bit steep for me. hi mate 12 decs where bought fom cabellas usa years ago,the rest were made from for sale sign plastic cut out and painted by jims wife, so just by 2 one feeding and 1 on lookout and make the rest cheers bernie cheers for that i,ll give it a try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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