clangerman Posted August 10 Report Share Posted August 10 good effort there well done I’m waiting for peas here be cut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu nesling Posted August 18 Author Report Share Posted August 18 all the peas have been cut this week. and the floor is littered with them. only problem is there are 4 fields all close to each other and you shoot one and you can guess what happens when no one else is out 😒. had 27 in a short session this afternoon, nothing great but it was enjoyable. had to work the flapper in conjuction with the rotor to get anything to decoy confidently, missed a few ..no change there and dropped a few 45 yarders too. just nice to be out shooting somewhere, as now the partridges are in the maize its a bit limiting where i can shoot. still happy with my choice of pigeon shell fiocchi fblue 1oz of english 7, hard shot and patterns a bit tight, but best of all a sensible price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu nesling Posted September 7 Author Report Share Posted September 7 (edited) wel, still going on the same fields of peas, but i dont think they will be there much longer. had a mixed bag of 67 pigeons and blacks in a 4 hour session that was enjoyable apart from the drizzly rain that came on and off all afternoon. it was nice to see a good covey of english on the hedgeside i was shooting, just goes to show what a bit of vermin control can do. still loads of peas on the deck, but i think they will be cultivated in and sprayed off soon as they are starting to grow again!! Edited September 7 by stu nesling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 7 Report Share Posted September 7 Well done and yes, lovely to see some English Partridges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted September 7 Report Share Posted September 7 It must have been pretty dry around your way for those Peas to still be in that condition , I walked around parts of the estate today and it's amazing how quick all the new plants are growing , this years o s r is already well above ground , the fodder beet is around a foot high , the spud land is getting pulled up and it was as warm as most days in the Summer , Nice to see the English Partridges , if the chicks avoided the early Summer's rain and cold then these last few weeks have been ideal for insect life , never seem to get two years the same now , I wonder what lay ahead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu nesling Posted September 8 Author Report Share Posted September 8 yeah its till pretty dry, still carrying a 4lb lump hammer to allow me to get the rotor or other toys into the ground. the peas are coming back through in places and are around an inch high. having good parents help with the english survival rate too, they all looked healthy and there must have been 12-14 of them in the covey. will be interesting to look at one of the other farms as the english there seem to do well even on an average year, last hare drive there we were treated to maybe 50 birds come over us on a small farm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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