pigeon controller Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 (edited) Went out with DB at 13.00 Friday and the conversation was all about where had we seen beans planted over the past year as we thought that most of the stubble had been ploughed in aroud us and beans has always been a good option at the back end of summer. We drove around for about ten miles and found thirty acres which had just been combined. We spoke to the farmer and he told us that he had his shooters comming out on Saturday, so we drew a blank. The next question was where was the last wheat to be harvested and we drove back to that field to find approx one hundred birds on it, so straight to the farm only to find the Farmer rigging up his plough. He told us to help ourselves but he would be ploughing it in about two hours we asked if we could shoot the last stubble field which was on the otherside of the road as not to disrupt his ploughing but he refused due to the pheasant pens. We sit up on the edge of a spinney with the wind comming over the top from the back at approx 15.00 and shot till 18.00 trying not to hit the tractor as it went up and down in front of us and picked up 134 pigeons. sorry no pictures as I forgot my camara and I do not have a download lead for my new phone. Saturday morning picked DB up at 09.00 and tried to decide what to do as it was forcast to be wet and windy. As we left to get out of the town we noticed a few birds going left to right across the road so we followed and headed down a few lanes a came to a gate at the side of the lane to scan the fields only to find that we had approx fifty birds flying low in the valley out of the strong wind all going to a ploughed field. we decided to go for it and get what we get. We sorted out the farmer but he said we must contact the tenent farmer who had leased the field for next year which we did after a lengthy conversation with his wife over what we do with all the pigeons we shoot. We set up on a grass field next to the plough and built the hide around the fishing brolly to keep us dry and warm. When we first started shooting they all left in one flock and we thought we had blown it but after about thirty minutes they started to return and we ended up in the pouring rain with 112. Remember a bad days shooting is better than four hours in Ikea!!!! Edited October 5, 2008 by pigeon controller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deeplemming Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 Sounds like a lot of fun, Good shooting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scout Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 Nice shooting guys, I always give up in the rain, think I may have to stick it out and see if things improve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Good on ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topgunners Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 good bag lads. I am just like yourselves. I NEVER go out without my umbrella and we shot 333 in the rain one day a couple of seasons ago. Dave K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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