pigeon shooting

[adam scott 1]

what a day.

 

got up at half four, first light. picked up me stap dad gary. been studiying this feild for days, so i know the flight lines. dropped off gary at one end of the feild and i headid for the other side. the crop was red wheat and pigeons have been on it in there plenty along with rooks, crows and quite alot of pewits to my suprise i also herd my first cookoo of the year.

 

i set up my deeks 40 yards out. no need to push it. using the old faithful horse shoe shap i placed 1 rook decoy at the back around 15-20 yards away from my pattern. this did not work aswel as i'd hoped , after killing a couple and adding them this helped no end. but my hide was not perfect so that put them off. i bearly got in my hide and pigeons were pooring in. non stop action. i could not load my gun quick enough.

 

mayhem. pigeons were set to come in, wings back and all when suddenly from the other side of the field gary rattled a shot off at somethin making my pigeons veer away! ha never mind, i'm sure it would happen to him eventually! my first few shots were awsome with a first shot first kill and a couple of doubles , then my shooting got worse as i had some really easy misses and when i get frustraited i get worse, i dont take my time and they turn into angry shots.

 

gary had his magnet out, i chose to have nothing as i knew i was on the flightline and had no worries about the pigeons spotting my deek's. i also noticed the pigeons started coming from all directions. i thought to myself could i be sat on some sort of flight line junction where b lines join the a line?? i dont know but if i had it was luck.

 

we were both rattleing shots off all day with no disturbance to the flightlines, the wind was up and so muffleing the sound of our muskets!

 

11:30am i rang gaz and said well give it a rest at twelve. my shoulder was killing me and my legs too from chaising a rook accross the feild. plus the pubs were open . i only had a few shells left anyhow. i said i'll use them up. i had more in the van but it seemed good to finish on a high for once.

 

after alot of misses and frustaion . our final bag was around 15 rooks and 30 odd pigeons. my shooting was awful but the sport was great. i will try to put a picture up but i'm not sure how to do it.

 

we hope to return in a week. i'll let u know how we get on. with anyluck i might shoot i little more strate!

[bell 3,607]

Give me a clue mate.......what is red wheat Is it a drilling you were shooting over as pigeon dont eat wheat int growing stage.

 

regards

 

Bell

[adam scott 1]

i've never herd of it befor, it's drillings. the wheat itself was only 2-3" high as opposed to all the other wheat at the moment wich is around 10-12". pigeons have been all over it!

[adam scott 1]

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