wattsowatts Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 On one of my permissions yesterday evening there was a 100+ birds hitting a field of barley, so got up nice and early this morning and was set up by 6.30am. Waited 2 hrs and not a pigeon in site, could not believe it!! Went for a wander and found a small number coming in on some wheat just up the road. Made the decision to move and have a go for them. Walked them off the field and set up and waited, and waited, and waited; not one pigeon came in. Then to cap it all, someone down the road started clay shooting and then someone started riding their scramble bike through the woods on the edge of the field. As my mate said to me, “your best pack-up before anything else happens like an airliner crashing into the field” Good advice so packed up and came home and mowed the lawn and washed the car. Hopefully get my own back on the pigeons in the week! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSS Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Haha Sounds unlucky. Still, a bad days shooting is always better than a good days work. Regards, Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsowatts Posted August 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 Absolutely but the mortgage has to be paid unfortunately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anser2 Posted August 2, 2009 Report Share Posted August 2, 2009 I think the words " Yesterday evening " might be important here. At this time of year my local pigeons do not start to feed on the fields in any numbers untill late afternoon and the best time is after tea. Perhaps the field will worth another go after work this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 We've been getting most of our sport in the late afternoons recently. I had 4 guns out today, each on their own freshly cut Barley field, they shot 310 between them with most of the sport after lunch. One guy had 111 for a shot ratio of about 5:1. Running total for this summer - 1275 woodies. Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George1990 Posted August 3, 2009 Report Share Posted August 3, 2009 Same here. We still have wheat standing. One day, loads of them. About 7 O'clock in the evening. Next day I watch them flighting directly over, most continuing on, mind, but thought my magnet would bring em down. Set up at 3, lo and behold... no pigeons. sat there for a while, went home and had dinner, went back. Managed a colossal bag of 4 Win some you lose some! Or in my case you repeatedly lose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carrion crow Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 Did that yesterday, set up had three hours one shot, went home had a bacon sarnie and a cup of tea, mmmmmm bacon sarnie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M ROBSON Posted August 4, 2009 Report Share Posted August 4, 2009 They can sometimes switch off a standing field, even in the space of a night, if there has been a lot of rain and the crop is wet. And once they are on something else they don't often go back straight away once it dries out. I've seen them switch from standing wheat, to barley stubble in the space of 24 hrs this week on one of my areas. Mark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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