Help Needed!!

[chris5 1]

cool thanks both think me nd bro will go out to the farm on wednesday once we have the camo gear tomorrow will be trying out hide day hopefully some pics if all goes well

[hyperion 122]

just leave the wood alone for a week or so and they will soon be back, maybe spill a bit of grain about the place to encourage them a bit

 

you dont need camo to shoot pigeons or any thing else really just drab clothes and sit still, leave your gun at home and just go sit in the wood and watch, tuck your self into the bottom of a tree and spend a few hours at different times of the day over a few days looking to see where the birds fly into the wood, which trees they land in and which ones they use as they move further into the wood and which they use as sitty trees, look for droppings and feathers under the trees, go at different times of the day, first light, lunch time and evening and spend a few hours watching from a distance and learn the flight lines the birds use to and from the wood, have patience and watch watch watch, and practice shooting up into trees plenty of conkers and what not to practice on around now the summer is moving on

 

spend three weeks watching and learning how the ground works and one day shooting and you will bag more

 

and one top tip, when a bird comes in to land in a tree all its attention is focused on where its going to land so raise your gun to your shoulder as the bird is landing on the branch and have the cross hairs on it by the time its finished flapping about and it wont have chance to see the movement you make and you will be ready to shoot as soon as its settled

 

good luck

 

cheers

Hyperion

[chris5 1]

thanks Hyperion will definitely be spending some time watching from my hide might have 2 leave bro at home with gun lol he has no patience. hopefully should be getting plenty in the trees to try out your tips on

 

another question (i know, how can there be any more? ) how do you cook pigeons best? the ones we shot i took the breast meat off then used a meat tenderizer on them and quickly fried them. is that a good way or are there better ones?

[hyperion 122]

loads of ways to cook em

 

use like beef (if you shoot enough) in stews or pies, spatchcock them, pluck and draw the bird then use game shears to cut down either side of the spine and flatten the bird out then fry or grill

 

personal favorite at the mo is take the breast meat off and just roll it in some crushed black pepper corns with a little salt then shallow fry with some onions and mushrooms for about a minute (or less) a side, then take then pigeon out leaving the onions and shrooms in the pan and pour in a good glug of red wine or port or brandy or all three if its christmas let it reduce a little then take it off the heat return the pigeon to the pan and crumble in a bit of stilton (if you want to make it even richer whip the livers out of the birds and blitz the up and add when you put the stilton in) heat gently as the stilton melts then add a bit of double cream if you want and serve poured over a slice of crusty brown toast!

[DBUTCH 0]

i best put my cammo back in the wash been out to night and was avoided all nite by the pidgeons.i was wondering why coz i bagged 2 on saturday with no problems i thought it was something i was doing wronge to nite but i must have sat out like a saw thum the wife washed my kit on saturday i didnt relise it had that affect when washed with washing powder .you learn somthing new every day thanks for the advise

[Phantom 631]

Yep, luckily for me I was warned about putting hunting gear in the washer before I actually got around to it.

 

Modern washing powders are a killer for your hunting skills Softener is also to be avoided as it smells good to us, but is like a huge warning to our quarry

 

Phantom

[andyfr1968 772]

I've always washed my shooting kit on it's own with no powder or anything, just warm water.

 

I think that what I'm shooting at won't be too put off by the odd stubborn stain. Unlike women.... Wierd...

 

Cheers.

[olim 28]

keep an eye out for sitty trees, trees that flocks of them sit in reguarly, once you find these sit under neath them and wait for them to come. I always find pigeons extremely hard to get close to, to shoot but mainly stick to bunnies. good luck

[chris5 1]

lol speaking of camo me and bros arrived yesterday fitted me fine but large on him was massive visited our permission ive never seen so little life on a farm saw a few pigeons and that was it kinda disappointing but in a few weeks they say they will be harvesting the rapeseed so then we should have more luck

 

thanks for all the advice

 

chris

[Phantom 631]

Large on me is small!

That kit is a very good buy really for people like us that are on a tight budget should last for many years.

 

Guess your brother will have to grow into his kit.

 

The bonus part of that kind of gear is that the lining will nuetralise any body odour so it wont stink

 

But Please remember Chris,

 

DON'T let your mam stick them in the washing machine EVER!

It will ruin the machine and your mam will batter you good and proper In fact tell her to read this post, then your covered!

 

Oh and dont wear white shirts underneath the top! They come out rather grey!

 

 

 

Phantom

[chris5 1]

ye they were really good value hes gonna need 2 do a lot of growing lol i had to save the washing machine he wanted to put his in and i see what you mean about white tops we were both grey after lol still the shower had an interesting charcoal colour

Edited July 22, 2010 by chris5

[aaronpigeonplucker 32]

Hi mate

your bro has a hw30 what gun do you have? of course it goes without saying you've got to get 9/10 pellets in a 1" circle before you start shooting live quarry becasue nobody likes to wound. your hide looks very good but even if you have body camo you got to remeber that your face will stick out like a sore thumb so get a dull coloured hat (olive/brown) and a scrim scarf off ebay (very cheap. what i do is double over the scrim scarf then wrap it around my face until there are 2 corners on the crown of my head then i put the cap on and it holds it in place. then you can part the scarf around the eyes so you can see through.

[chris5 1]

i have a cometa 220 (soz for the bad pic it was on my bed the nearest place lol)

 

its accurate in the garden we can reliably hit 1p coins and stuff so im happy with accuracy

 

and good idea about face and hands i will try and get some stuff to cover them thanks

[nathgoon 2]

best advice you will get is , BUY A SHOTGUN ,MATE

[chris5 1]

lol sounds like a plan