JDog Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 (edited) My wife occasionally lets me off domestic duties. Moving furniture and emptying boxes seems to take up a lot of my time of late. On one such occasion I saw a few pigeons going into a rape field. My old shooting companion from these parts had seen the same ones. We agreed yesterday to do the first light thing. Today on the very dankest and foggy mornings we met at 8.00. He brought another friend along. We knew where we wanted to be and were set up in two hides by 8.20. Pigeons came from the murk immediately. It was strange, at no time could we see more than 200m. Sometimes a lot less. By 9.30 it was all over apart from a straggler or two. We picked 46 pigeons and a Carrion crow. Edited December 22, 2022 by JDog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7daysinaweek Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 👍 Excellent stuff JD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkin Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 Nice bag at this time of year, well done boi,👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 very nice good to see you back, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead eye alan Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 That's my way to shoot rape well done I bet you enjoyed that. Hope you settled in for Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jall25 Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 Great morning ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen-H Posted December 22, 2022 Report Share Posted December 22, 2022 Nice little outing 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rim Fire Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 Nice bag there and that corvid should have minded his own business 🤪 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mightymariner Posted December 23, 2022 Report Share Posted December 23, 2022 I can see you are back in the field. Well done old boy. On winter rape I think the early morning outings are most profitable, catch them as they head out from roost. Couple of hours. Done. Far better than chasing them all over during the day time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalkedUp Posted December 28, 2022 Report Share Posted December 28, 2022 Excellent to see you back, good write up 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simon6ppc Posted December 31, 2022 Report Share Posted December 31, 2022 Nice one JD, I always say a bag of around 50 pigeons is almost perfect as you get plenty of shooting and its not to big of a job picking them up and also packing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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