Rook Shooting

[RossR 14]

Hi all i was just wondering what date is the best time to shoot the young rooks when they are jumping around branches and stretching their wings?

 

as im going to try it this year for a land owner with the air guns

 

Ross

[Phantom 631]

Hi Ross,

Birds don't comply with our calendar days and dates

Many people mention the 13th for some reason, but I guess the weather etc will affect them. Best just keep an eye on the Rookery and knock em off as and when they emerge.

Will you be making Squab Pie? A rareity these days, but apparently they do taste good

 

Tony

Edited May 5, 2012 by Phantom

[RossR 14]

I wouldnt think about having a corvid for tea?! Yeh good idea a go up t the permission once a week and shoot the rabbits and corvids for the farm and landowner

 

P.s I get some good bags

[tegater 789]

Any time around the second week in May.

 

Rook pie is great, but mix them with a bit of pigeon.

 

Also remember, to shoot the branchers only if they need killing, and not just because you want to have a go at it.

 

Enjoy your pie! Don't waist the meat.

[Phantom 631]

Never heard the Nursery Rhyme, with the line "Four and twenty Black Birds, baked in a pie"?

They were talking about Squabs and other Corvids I have some recipies somewhere

 

Actually, I'm just reading an article on Corvids by Adam Smith in "Total Airgun Hunting; The Book" he makes referance to the fact that Squabs form the main ingrediant of Rook Pie, It was a very common food in the 1900's

 

Tony

[Rake aboot 4,935]

I`ll be out this time home. Mid to late May is when I do the big numbers on the nests.

[tegater 789]

Never heard the Nursery Rhyme, with the line "Four and twenty Black Birds, baked in a pie"?

They were talking about Squabs and other Corvids I have some recipies somewhere

 

Actually, I'm just reading an article on Corvids by Adam Smith in "Total Airgun Hunting; The Book" he makes referance to the fact that Squabs form the main ingrediant of Rook Pie, It was a very common food in the 1900's

 

Tony

We eat them now, and so do many others I know, but because we don't get big rookeries around here, they don't get shot and chucked.

[The Duncan 802]

Branchers taste incredible! I prefer them to fillet steak.

 

Brancher day traditionally is the 12th of may, has been for centuries. Looking forward to saturday

[RossR 14]

Thanks for all the comment and tegater do you do ferreting vids on youttube and yeh the rooks need culled as the guy has just bought the house with the rookery and they are making a hell of a racket and farmers having problems as well with them.

[tegater 789]

Thanks for all the comment and tegater do you do ferreting vids on youttube and yeh the rooks need culled as the guy has just bought the house with the rookery and they are making a hell of a racket and farmers having problems as well with them.

Yes I do.

 

Enjoy your rook shooting Ross.

[StevoSmith 147]

Mmmmmmm squab pie....been ages since ive had that......brings back some memorys of my grandad god rest his soul

[RossR 14]

Thanks for all the comment and tegater do you do ferreting vids on youttube and yeh the rooks need culled as the guy has just bought the house with the rookery and they are making a hell of a racket and farmers having problems as well with them.

Yes I do.

 

Enjoy your rook shooting Ross.

 

i love your vids and cant wait for them next season if your doing them.?

 

and i will let you all know how i get on

[MR TEA POT 1,287]

Would sooner eat one of my socks that i have worn for 2 weeks,filled with dog sh1t, then eat rook again,bloody awful never again :bad: :laugh:

[tegater 789]

Would sooner eat one of my socks that i have worn for 2 weeks,filled with dog sh1t, then eat rook again,bloody awful never again :bad: :laugh:

It's the way you cook them lol.

[paulus 26]

Would sooner eat one of my socks that i have worn for 2 weeks,filled with dog sh1t, then eat rook again,bloody awful never again :bad: :laugh:

It's the way you cook them lol.

depends if you have any taste buds or not even left under a hedge sod all will touch them, they just slowly rot away as not even fly`s will go near them :laugh: