A new nice surprise

[Mightymariner]

JDog and I haven't shot together much this summer so it was a nice surprise to get an invite to shoot Saturday afternoon, and as luck would have it, I was free.

As always he had an option, a flightline out of the village to and old bean field (which we couldn't shoot).

The field was rape and the birds were flighting over it to get to the distance beans.

We pulled into the gateway to assess the situation.

The initial plan looked good but watching birds slipping across the field in the strong wind it became evident we might need to tweak it. Driving around the boundary we came up with a new plan, both of us on the brow of a hill in halfway down the field with a tall hedge behind us, the village to our left and the intended destination to our front. That way we would hopefully get birds entering the field on the way out and also on the return after filling up on beans.

Setting up, we used plastic shells and a rotary between us.

The action was almost immediate, in fact Johnny was popping away when I trudged back having parked my car.

In the early stages we were shooting at birds coming from the village to left and from behind us, swooping over our hides and away in the blink of an eye. Later, things hotted up and we were getting birds on the return journey, coming for a closer look at our set up, and some paying the price.

As we built a pattern of dead birds, we were able to pull in more returning pigeons, a few even decoyed.

JDog shot a few very, very tall birds, I think even he was impressed with his own shooting.

I managed some after a slow start and gradually improved my average.

We did drop a few behind us in a grass paddock. I picked a couple of mine and the plan was for Johnny to return with his dogs later to sweep the area. Unfortunately, a visit from a lady who lived in the house behind (some way behind down a hill) curtailed that as she declared she didn't want him to pick any birds up, even the wounded ones.

By 3.30pm it had tailed off and we decided to call it a day.

We picked 37 and Johnny returned with the dogs later to check the rape field, picking another 8.

So, a nice session. Most of the birds were stuffed with beans and there were plenty of young birds in the bag.

[ditchman]

what was the story about the woman..........?? what was her problem

[Lsto]

Nice little write up, well done.

[Mightymariner]

On 03/10/2022 at 21:06, ditchman said:

what was the story about the woman..........?? what was her problem

Didn't like the noise, didn't want people on her land, but also said she didn't like pigeons! Go figure.

[ditchman]

39 minutes ago, Mightymariner said:

Didn't like the noise, didn't want people on her land, but also said she didn't like pigeons! Go figure.

cheers.............very strange !

[rifleman56]

there is some funny people about. 

 

[marsh man]

54 minutes ago, rifleman56 said:

there is some funny people about. 

 

There most certainly are , but the worse thing you can do is to upset them weather you are in the right or wrong , you have to remember that as shooting people we have got a lot more enemies than friends , upset them at your pearl .

[pigeon controller]

Nice to see you both out and enjoying yourselves, well done, thanks for reporting.