old photos

[ftm 3,357]

thought i would share a few old pics frome few serious magpie roosts think what damage they could have caused to the song bird population-billy----sorry about the quality of pics

[darkdd81 36]

i don't think i've even seen that many before, let alone shot them. Unbelieveable shooting to those guys in the pics. Hat's off!

 

All the best.

[The one 8,463]

Good going mate you certainly have a few there

[ftm 3,357]

cheers for the reply mate me and my mate took it upon ourselves to clean the area up as it seemed the only bird we were seeing was bloody magpies we did keep some sort of record but think we gave up counting after we hit 250 plus birds believe it or not we still have loads of them around that both me and the same lad [dont see as much of him now] still drop a few on a weekly basis

[bigmac 97kt 13,776]

Nice shooting bud iv never seen that many ether atvbmac

[nangell 50]

ftm ,theres some top number there ,

[jamie82 6]

1 for sorrow 2 for joy, 250 for? nice shooting mate

[Grayling 56]

Much respect sir , I've been shooting Magpies for 35 years and never had no where near that many in a single day, thats got to be some kind of record in our hobby. That is some awesome bag even for two shooters and it looks like you make a bit of a habit of such monstrous bags .

 

Unless you have some secret magic potion, please tell us your secret. I see the tools used were air powered, but even with rimfires that would be a mega large number. I have had 6 Magpies in less than 5 minutes but only because they were busy squabbling with Crows, (got two of them as well) we never saw anymore afterwards for the rest of that day. Those Corvids are pretty brainy when it come to spotting potential threats.

[ftm 3,357]

they were all shot whilst roosting lads me and my mate found a good roost then just asked around ie local farmers allotment holders to keep eyes open for flight paths at certain time of day 3- 4 oclock seems to be the time they move nearer their roosts then we waited for right conditions [cloudy wet &windy ] andas you can see the rest is history -billy

[Daz 7 563]

Top shooting Billy bud

 

That's some huge bags of Bandits

 

atvb Daz 7.

[targa 5]

21 was my highest number for magpies, and that was becouse I was on the right spot when they came flying in for roosting

The highest by daylight was 5

[moxy 617]

Looks like you we're busy there fella. Good bags and good shooting.

Only time we end up with good numbers is by silhouetting the night roosts.

[ftm 3,357]

thats how i do them moxy night time using cloud cover as my back ground quite easy really -billy

[moxy 617]

thats how i do them moxy night time using cloud cover as my back ground quite easy really -billy

 

A lot have the roosts we do are amongst very thick cover of blackthorn, hawthorn and dense brambles so retrieving the shot birds is very hard. Especially at night. Good sport though.

Well done.

 

Atb

[Tribeboy1970 9]

That's some shooting mate, hat off to you both !