Wigeon Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Me and my 2 mates went out today and set up some deacoys up in a sheep field added a few crow deaks to the side of the pattern and although the 2 hours was slow we shot 4 pigeons they were coming in to the deaks well with their wings back and one point 5 birds dropped in 2 were shot Just goes to show if your patient and wait they will come to deaks even in a grass field :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 One of my best bags in recent years was taken over a 20 acre pasture which was on the edge of a wooded valley. I shot 43 birds in 6 hours. The first hour was very slow but it picked up at about 10.30 and birds were dropping into 20 shell deeks and a flapper from a great height after flying over the woodland. The farmer said he often saw scores of pigeons cropping the young clover after he had moved some 1200 sheep from the field after winter. the grass was very short and due to the high density of Sheep **** the clover was sprouting. One of the birds I shot was backed so full of acorns from the wood that I cant believe it could get of the ground again. FM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 The pigeons are feeding on clover, more than any other crop in my area, at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunganick Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 mine are all feeding on my schools car park.......thanks to the 6th form leaving pranks.... as well as the african snails they put in my english teachers office, apparently they are good paper eaters :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted May 27, 2005 Report Share Posted May 27, 2005 Is protecting a crop of clover acceptable under the General License? I'm still not happy with advice that we are safe from prosecution, unless there is a crop for harvest close by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 I had my best day ever on newly cut grass. The hay bales were the small square type and made an easy hide. It was about 3 or 4 years ago in Oxfordshire. I think I shot 125 or so that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted May 28, 2005 Report Share Posted May 28, 2005 I have had a couple of good days on newly sewn grass, my dad has had a few 70-80 bird days on clover. Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigeon Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Is protecting a crop of clover acceptable under the General License? I'm still not happy with advice that we are safe from prosecution, unless there is a crop for harvest close by. Im sure most police wont know whats legal to shoot over and whats not also in rural areas most local boobies couldn't gaive a to$$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 Im sure most police wont know whats legal to shoot over and whats not also in rural areas most local boobies couldn't gaive a to$$ Does anybody here really believe that it's the police that will be bringing prosecutions? I have invited anybody from BASC to come and shoot pigeons over grass or roost shooting with the LACS in attendance, but nobody seems willing to put their neck on the block. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigeon Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 at the end of the day pigeons eat crops where you shoot them shouldn't matter in my eyes Its like saying you shot a fox on farmer x's land but the fox kills chickens on farmers y land but you can still kill it ?? where is the logic Both are the same thing Vermin/pest but both have a differant law the law is a load of bo**ocks I would rather see a fox live and shoot a pigeon, i know foxes sometimes kill for fun but we need scavengers to eat the dead and injured just like Pike do Pigeons cause far too much damage Thats just my thoughts so please dont quote me on anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjimmer Posted May 29, 2005 Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 It's long been established that shooting pigeons to keep down the overall population, is ineffective, because of natural mortality. Shooting only protects the crop over which you are shooting. The hole that the Government have got us into over this, needs to be sorted out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wigeon Posted May 29, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2005 I agree with you m8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted May 30, 2005 Report Share Posted May 30, 2005 With all the rain(Scotland)lately I`ve been seeing loads of pigeon on grass probably because of how sodden the pea fields are at the mo.Hope it dries up before wednesday! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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