Browning Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 Walking the dogs yesterday and I was watching a local farmer that was spreading pig slurry on a recently harvested field. Not so much watching him as watching the rooks, crows and gulls that were descending on the field, hundreds of the bu**ers. As he drove past he stopped and we got chatting about my dogs, after a while I turned the conversation round to the corvids and found out his usual pest controller had moved away from the area, so he was in need of some help....RESULT !!! I went back this morning, buried myself into a hedge, and waited for the birds to appear as he started spreading again.........54 shots fired, 33 birds in the bag.....one happy farmer.....one happy shooter, 700 more acres to come and go as I please, and an invitation to go beating with him this winter. Who needs decoys ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PEREGRINE Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 Result browning well done, could do with that kind of luck myself. Chances are though with my kind of luck i would just have got sprayed with s****t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 I know what you mean Browning, one of the best days I ever had shooting corvids was under similar circumstances about 7 years ago.. A farmer near Cirencester had spread two fields with manure and the rooks crows & jackdaws were so numerous you couldnt count them. On examination they were eating the small red worms, ( Brandlings, much favoured by us anglers), amongst other crawling nasties. In 6 hours I shot over 100 birds and when I drove by the day after the field was still alive with them. Two weeks later he ploughed it in and seeded it with rape and i shot over it again and had a good mixed bag of blck and grey birds and one stoat after the poults in the adjacent wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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