Entice a magpie onto range after seen attacking lamb

[Keith 66]

Hide up & make a squeak like a rabbit in distress, stones in a film can, Once you have one down it will drive the others nuts especially if its a runner.                                           Best i ever did was a winters evening roost shoot with my Dad, Magpies often flock up in the winter & we had a large flock of about 150 roosting in a local wood where we used to shoot, We stood just inside each end of the wood with a fourten each & shot 47 in 15 minutes. they simply flew back & forth between us.

This morning i was woken up by the magpies having a go at a sparrows nest in our garden, Grabbed the Fwb sport & some pellets, sod it wrong size! Grabbed the other rifle an elderly BSA cadet, out the bog window & pop, one goes down. Go downstairs to find it & they are going mental at their mate who is dead on the floor, Im putting my shoes on to go & pick it up when next doors fox grabs one of the ones hopping about chattering at it & saunters off. Mr fox then comes back a few minutes later for the one i shot.

[Accuspell]

I have some magpies that I shot and took to a taxidermist and she has mounted them for me in return for others, not a fancy mount, just preserved with flexible wires out of their feet so I can put them on a fence, hedge or on a piece of wood on the ground. They work brilliantly - but if you really want to shoot corvids with an air rifle you can't beat a stuffed fox as the decoy.

Plastic magpie decoys do work, flocked are better than my hard plastic one, but it still works if set up with some thought. I thought I had a picture but I can't find it.... decoy on hedge, feral pigeon splayed out with some feathers pulled and scattered around as if a falcon had hit it and left it, about 10 yards away - then use a magpie call, I got mine from Belgium, a hand made one by Sam Neyt. He does some very useful videos on You Tube too, he can literally talk to the crows with his corvid calls, like goose men can call geese with different calls.