The Sniper Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 After five outings this year ( when the total number of pigeons for them is one ) I joined my shooting mate, this morning. He had been looking at some new fields we have, yesterday, and he showed me a small corner of a 40 acre field of OSR. There were a about 30 pigeons sat in the nearby trees and that was all. This was about 10.00am. He went off to a spot he had selected, about a mile away, and I watched the corner for about 15 minutes. Sure enough one or two pigeons flew down into this corner. So I made the decision to have a go. That was exactly my attitude as I did not expect anything, in view of recent performance. There was nowhere to get into the hedge, on this corner, so I stuck the hide out from the hedge into the field. I put out the rotor and shell decoys and, shortly afterwards, a pigeon flew straight into my killing zone. Brilliant :blink: . Then another :blink: . This went on for about 1 1/2 hours. Then the dreaded lull came about. I decided to stay as I was sure they would have to come back and feed sometime. Wrong :blink: . They never came back in any numbers at all. I packed up at 4.00pm. But I had thoroughly enjoyed the day, even though I was frozen. I ended up with 15 pigeons for 21 shots. The important thing to me was that my confidence in my tactics and shooting have been restored, as they have taken a serious dent over the past few outings. P.S. My mate never fired a shot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 These shorter opportunistic spells, are what most Winter shooting seems to be about, at the moment. I bet there will be birds there, same time tomorrow. :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene molloy Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 Sniper. P.S. My mate never fired a shot Stuffim. Well done you! Eug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted February 10, 2005 Report Share Posted February 10, 2005 Well done mate. I suffer the 11-30 ish til whenever scenario from the pigeons. Its like someone has turned them off but it does give me the rest of the day off :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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