pigeon floaters

[gerdy 1]

advice needed ive recently started to take up pigeon shooting.i bought a new browning maxus as my tool for the job a couple of shell decoys,net a so on but ive seen pigeon floaters on youtube and they look good just wondering does any of yous guy make your own if so could yous tell me where is the cheapest way to go about the task of making my own as ive recently been paid of and have a bit of extra time on my hands and also want to keep costs to a min any advice would greatly be appreciated thanks

[Denny essex 15]

Cheapest one I know is a bamboo stick or similar roughly 2 mtrs long, strong enough to take a bird and still flex, a wire coat hanger or soft wire straightend and curled a few times in the middle of the wire around the bamboo stick and bound with tape or similar to hold it steady about 20 cm from the top.

each end of the wire is bent to either pierce through a bird wing or curled to grip a birds out stretched wing and hold it steady.

The bamboo stick is stuck firm in the ground, the other end with the wing spreaders goes up a birds rear to the head to hold firm, then the wing arms fitted to the wings to keep them out stretched.

Sorry no plans or pics just one I remeberd from way way back, but im sure you can work things from that .

[tallpauljcb1 5]

i used to use dome tent pole they worked for me

[waidmann 105]

i have two from decoy direct.co.uk

, you can adjust them according to wind and weight of bird etc ( fiberglass rod in a steel tube with foot plate).

i find them very good, put them into the wind around the magnet and bobs yours ( as is fanny)

 

 

 

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