spraying pigeon decoys black

[shottyscotty 3]

hi i have had some plastic pigeon decoys for a few years ande there getting tatty so i sprayed 3 full body and 3 shell decoys black with matt paint and then set them up to decoy crows. they worked really well and brought in crows,woodys and ferrels and i had a great day and ended up with 94 birds in total mainly crows and they saved me going and buying crow decoys. i have pics but cant get them up but ill keep trying.

 

i forgot to mention i only had 140 cartridges and i used them in 3 hours

Edited July 4, 2010 by shottyscotty

[Night Hunter 109]

Great idea mate....

[shottyscotty 3]

got the pics now

Edited July 4, 2010 by shottyscotty

[shottyscotty 3]

and a close up of the old baikal

[shottyscotty 3]

and the netting over the fence.

[stubby 175]

its amazing what us shooters can come up with, to use as decoys and save a few ££££'s

 

here's my atempt at changing some american dove decoys into magpies,

[stubby 175]

after spraying

 

[hedge hunter 107]

Hi there mate, i also have done this myself in the past with good effect, however its nice to see some good feedback of the guys, i know when i done it and posted on a different forum the stick i had over it was beyound a joke, the usuall stuf, like you tight t...t you cheap skate, the usual, so good on you guys and well done that man for such a good idea, cheers all HH

[cassshantia 16]

great idea i was going to do the same as my full bodied ones are tatty but i thought it would not work

great

ive just got 4 flocked crows today for 18 quid

[hendon ratter 3]

good going there,a good tally ov birds too

[peeps_76 17]

great work there buddy.

good to see you getting out for a while. a SMALL amount of uv paint around the wing areas (where the crow decoys are blue) also helps a lot.

 

Regards P

[shotgunny 39]

What sort of shotgun is that mate ???

Atb

 

sg

[shottyscotty 3]

What sort of shotgun is that mate ???

Atb

 

sg

its a old baikal ij18 e single barrel full choke.. it cost me £30 and i was using eley real trees and hushpower no6 through it and it was getting very hot that day and i was scared i was gona get a cook off.

[shotgunny 39]

Ahh thought as much have a similar single barrel baikal can't fault them to be honest .

Atb

sg