kitchrat Posted October 7 Report Share Posted October 7 After the luxury of stubble shooting, driving to the hide position, comparatively good supply of birds etc it was back to reality today! Wheat that was drilled 4 days ago, decent number there (50-100) yesterday so in I go today. About 50 feeding and more arriving when I got there. I drag the stuff a few hundred yards across sticky Essex Clay to the best and safest place to shoot and set up. As soon as that's done, the 1st mini-flock return and decoy OK, I get two! Three minutes, same again, 4 in the bag and I'm thinking "Only got a single slab of ammo". Bonk, reality strikes and from then on it was the odd mini-flock at 10-15-20 minute intervals and very wary, using all the old tricks of a) circling at a height as if it were a duck pond at dusk, b) zooming downwind on the stiff breeze from behind and curling away, c) going to sit in the tree to think about it d) ignoring the decoys or e) just not coming anywhere near! My hide was as unobtrusive as I could make it, with a good backdrop and I was down and hiding but most still turned away. Two real birds on the magnet, about dozen flocked shells in the pattern, which were replaced with dead birds but it made little difference, most birds turned away or gave me the cold shoulder. However, some did decoy well, a few were young and I managed to "scrape together" 26 before the trickle stopped about 3.00pm. A good afternoon for me! Cheers< JK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 7 Report Share Posted October 7 Well done, but there is NO normality in Essex..................... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clangerman Posted October 7 Report Share Posted October 7 been the norm here for a while now at least you scored a few watched couple of hundred today jumpy as a spring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted October 7 Report Share Posted October 7 Still a nice bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted October 7 Report Share Posted October 7 A good afternoon sport by any ones standard , you can remember a lot of the shots where you scored ( and missed ) , enough to dispose of and they didn't give you a heart attack carrying them off , well as far as we know , at the end of the day would you had been that much happier if you had got double that . MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitchrat Posted October 8 Author Report Share Posted October 8 19 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said: Well done, but there is NO normality in Essex..................... Very true!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitchrat Posted October 8 Author Report Share Posted October 8 15 hours ago, marsh man said: A good afternoon sport by any ones standard , you can remember a lot of the shots where you scored ( and missed ) , enough to dispose of and they didn't give you a heart attack carrying them off , well as far as we know , at the end of the day would you had been that much happier if you had got double that . MM As you say MM, no heart attack! I was just near the house of a nice chap who accepts a few, he came over and took 10, so now I have enough for 2 good casseroles. Several young birds, could be nice and tender? Actually, I shot well and can remember the misses (only 6 and I got 1 of them with the 2nd barrel!). So, I was happy enough with the bag, the farmer would have liked double or treble or more but 26 still keeps me in his good books. Win- Win day! Cheers, JK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spr1985 Posted October 8 Report Share Posted October 8 That sounds like time well spent, certainly better than sitting at home twidling the thumbs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitchrat Posted October 8 Author Report Share Posted October 8 2 minutes ago, Spr1985 said: That sounds like time well spent, certainly better than sitting at home twidling the thumbs! I'm good at Sudoku! My thumbs are not good after too many dirt-bike crashes and an attack of Dupuytren's contracture. Luckily it's my left that's bad so no problem shooting! Cheers, JK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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