MerseaDavid Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 (edited) Went out today down to one of our woods on the farm to have a go at the crows and when I got to the wood there was about 150 crows in the wood already, so I went into the wood to a hide I had set up the yesterday. All the crows left the wood like they normally do and I waited for about an hour and nothing had come back which seemed strange. My boss turned up to see how I was getting on and he told me that they had moved on to one of our neighbour drilled bean fields and were sitting in his wood. So I decided to sit it out and hope they would come back and after 1/2 an hour a pigeons came flying in so I got the rifle ready and just as it landed it was dead and for the next hour a nice steady stream of pigeons came flying in and I ended up with 12 pigeons and 1 crow. Some of the crows in the trees as I turned up. Edited March 10, 2009 by MerseaDavid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 I've had the same problems. Crows on a field for days, then as soon as I set up (without them seeing me) they have gone to another field or worse. You'll have another day on them, I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Some more pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 I've had the same problems. Crows on a field for days, then as soon as I set up (without them seeing me) they have gone to another field or worse.You'll have another day on them, I'm sure. Yeah I am hopeing to have a go at them on thursday or friday. Hopefully by then they will be off the drillings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiho Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Are you shooting flying birds with a hushpower cos they look heavy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerseaDavid Posted March 10, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Only 2 pigeons were shot with the silenced 410 and the rest were shot with the Falcon .22 air rifle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shot shot Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 good going, you'll get em all in the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykie Posted March 10, 2009 Report Share Posted March 10, 2009 Wait til after they have bred and the young crows and rooks are about at the end of May, you will have lots of sport then! Cant beat a day shooting corvids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 They`ll come back im sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humperdingle Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 Wait til after they have bred and the young crows and rooks are about at the end of May, you will have lots of sport then! Cant beat a day shooting corvids Branchers were about in Early March last year... must have been the mild winter. I remember shooting well over a hundred rooks in a few hours one year. Would have got more but ran out of pellets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykie Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Branchers were about in Early March last year... must have been the mild winter. I remember shooting well over a hundred rooks in a few hours one year. Would have got more but ran out of pellets! I was walking past our churchyard this morning and already I see the crows and rooks living there are sitting, I have a feeling this year the branchers may be out early too. Best keep an eye on them. Also well done for the 100 odd you shot, me being a shotgun man prefer to shoot them when they can fly and i can decoy them but each to their own sport. Hope you get some good bags this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave C Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Good Shooting mate, well done. Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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