pigeons in the mist

[malkiserow]

Yesterday I went out early to where the pigeons like to breakfast on a small patch of beans next to a bit of barley left unploughed.

 

It was 7 AM when I arrived, I thought it was all a waste of time to begin with as there was a heavy mist and no wind. I went out with my 10 secondhand deeks, no camoflage netting, no poles no face mask (forgot it ). 2 boxes of carts in my old 95 temperate jacket.

 

I thought oh well a nice walk .............

 

I set up the deeks on the beans 15 to 20 yds out and just stood against the newly cut hedge. Well what fun B)

 

A cracking hour and a half of crop protection !! a nice steady stream .... shot 32 and managed to collect 28.

 

I am sure they were flying lower and I recon 75% just came for a look rather than drop in. But when they are in range who cares !!!

 

so next to no equipment and rubbish weather.... what is going on !!

 

Made some of my Trinidadian (port of spain) curry with a few of them .... I'll add some pics to my original recipe description on the other section

 

Anyone else shoot in the mist?

[Suffolk shooter]

I have shot duck and pheasant on misty mornings, not thick stuff, but enough to mean everything was flying lower than normal. Its a strange feeling, the sound of the gun seems to be readily absorbed due to the damp conditions.

 

SS

[kipper]

I set off to go shooting rabbits with the .22 Rim Fire early one morning towards theend of last winter and half way to the field I was going to shoot I almost turned back because I could hardly see where I was going in the car. I got to the field and I could hardly see my hand infront of my face

 

I set off walking around the field I had only walked about 60yards when i could hear a crow calling nearby. luckerley I had got my crow caller in my shooting jacket pocket so I called back with the caller B) 2 crows had landed in the field and started walking to me I waited for them to get into sight (about 15-20yards away by now) and greeted 1 of them them with a .22 lr bullet. . (One thing to bare in mind when shooting in these conditions is safety with sutch poor visability you can not be sure if there it anybody eltse nearby) as I was in a standing position shooting down at the ground I decided it was safe enough to take the shot.

 

I kept on calling after and had several crows flying at me low and slow, if I had taken my shotgun I could have shot at least 6 crows but I only had the .22Rim with me within about an hour the sun had dried all of the mist up a and it was a red hot day.

 

I will be better prepaired next time thoe. :o

 

kipper

[ph5172]

I cant even shoot anything on the range when its a nice day!!

All that mist shooting must be doing wonders for your clay shooting...... after you beat me by a ''few'' kills the other day!!!!

[caeser]

I've shot in the mist. It was on an unharvested bean crop in winter last year. Couldn't see more than about 70 yds. There was alot of pigeons already on the feild, as we walked across with decoying equipment they hardly moved. Guns were still in their bags, and the pigeon didn't take off until we were about 20 yds from them. Put the deeks out and then had a great day. freezing cold mist, ended up with 80 odd pigeons between 2 of us. The mist did lift a bit as the day went on ,but came down again in the afternoon.

[cloudwalker]

I've had some cracking days in the fog/mist.

I set up under the flight line.

The pigeon were flying a lot lower and came straight in to the deeks :blink:

You need to be on the flight line though or they will miss your pattern