dead pigeon lobbing.

[mudpatten]

Being old and firmly stuck in my ways I still employ the old trick of lobbing a dead pigeon out of the hide in a kind of flat spin. This is best done when a bird has flown past and the act of throwing is largely concealed by the hide or hedgerow. The flying pigeon catches the movement and flash of white wing bar in its peripheral vision and about five out of ten respond by turning back.

 

Any body else still do this?

[Rick O'Shea]

Must admit never heard of this before?

[mossy835]

archie coates,used two do this in late september.

[Cranfield]

I have done it in the dim and distant past and it does attract their attention.

Not felt the need lately, but I will have to give it a try again.

[mudpatten]

If it`s going to work, which is by no means always, these days the time of year does`nt seem to make much difference. I wonder if Coates found it particularly effective with young birds in the autumn?

 

As a decoying trick I use it all the time. The beauty of it being that it costs, and weighs, nothing!

[malkiserow]

no but I do use a flapper on a timer so not felt the need but could be worth a try

[MK38]

Used to do it all the time..... sometimes it worked ... sometimes not........ still worth a try though.

 

Also from the dim and distant past... the pigeon glider, think i saw it in the shooting times .... basicaly a pigeon shaped balsawood plane ..... they did work, and if you made it right , they would glide down in a nice arc into the decoys.

 

As well as shell decoys made from grey plastic guttering and the old but still worthwhile trick of gluing pigeon wings onto plastic decoys.... easily replaced when tatty , but they tend to last a long while.

 

Cheapskate i maybe , but i still make bouncers out of ash or hazel stems , sharpend and rammed up the rear of the pigeon then a smaller kebab type stick shoved through below the wing , used to keep the wings open,... find the right stick and they work very well

 

 

Dave

[MerseaDavid]

I tried it a few times but with no success so I gave up and brought a flapper and that does the job nicely.

[Mec 9000]

Tried this many times, sometimes worked sometimes not, moved on to painting frisbees grey with white bars and threw these into pattern with similar result, still do it nowadays, have also used gliders from time to time if birds are on sitty trees watching.

Half the fun on poor days was inventing a new gadget that would do the trick. One thing I always do everytime I shoot a bird is take in a plastic and replace with dead bird because there is no decoy like the real McCoy.

[Spaniel]

Seen this in a video once, it is suppose to attract the pigeons, seem to work well on the video anyway