PATTERNS

[rigwallet]

TRIED MANY PATTERNS WITHOUT ANY REAL SUCCESS ANYBODY GOT ANY TRIED AND TRUSTED PATTERNS FAR DECOYS AND PLEASE DONT ANYONE SAY THE V SHAPE AS TRIED IT MANY TIMES AND GOT NOWT

[henry d]

V - Comma - 2 bunches with a killing zone in the middle

[Greenhunter]

Its probably not your patterns but where you are setting them up.

You need to be under a flight line thats in use that day!

[Cranfield]

Assume a couple of basic things, one is that birds like to land facing the wind, secondly they tend to land behind birds already on the ground.

 

Taking into account wind direction and where your hide is, you should be able to place the decoys so the pigeons are trying to land within range of your hide.

 

For example, if the wind is blowing from right to left across the face of your hide, the decoys will need to be to the right of your hide (facing into the wind).

You could use a "> or )" type pattern in these circumstances, with the decoy at the top of the ">" about 40yards from the hide and the one at the point/middle about 45 yards away.

 

You can utilise the same idea/layout depending on the wind direction.

[MerseaDavid]

You should try to get out into the fields and watch the pigeons when they are feeding and see what sort of patterns the birds tend to be in and try to copy that when setting up your decoys.

 

As said already it could be down to where you have set up and not the pattern or maybe something to do with your hide maybe

Or what crop you are shooting could have something to do with how the birds come in and feed.

[motty]

I totally agree with the posts here. If the birds aren't really feeding on a field, then the best set up in the world might not persuade any birds to come in.