the big chief 3,099 Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 went to my brothers permission today set the hide up as this place has a good population of crows and so on so thats what we set out for but the crows thought otherwise they decided they was not going to come over the paddock as they normally do they would go over the land we can't shoot on but in the end i got one and a pigeon 1 Quote Link to post
Cedric 132 Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 That could never be called a wasted day. Just think, you could have been stuck in a city somewhere. 2 Quote Link to post
the big chief 3,099 Posted May 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 We should have had a few more but we are new to it all Quote Link to post
Tremo 138 Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 That could never be called a wasted day. Just think, you could have been stuck in a city somewhere. +1 Cedric. I have days when I go out and shoot nothing. I never call it wasted though, even though my wife believes that I must be mad. Out in the countryside beats being in work, that's for sure!. 1 Quote Link to post
Cedric 132 Posted May 3, 2015 Report Share Posted May 3, 2015 I wish you hadn't said that - I've been trying to persuade myself to go to work for a week - ever since I got my new Sako !!! Quote Link to post
Tremo 138 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 I wish you hadn't said that - I've been trying to persuade myself to go to work for a week - ever since I got my new Sako !!! Nah, don't do it. Imagine being stuck in work on a glorious day in the week (glorious days tend to occur in the week, haven't you noticed??), with your new Sako sat at home in you cabinet crying out for action? Work?? Fools and Horses they say. It pains me to say, but I am one of this crowd though. The former I suspect! Quote Link to post
Cedric 132 Posted May 4, 2015 Report Share Posted May 4, 2015 OK. I'll go to work on rainy days ! Quote Link to post
mad4it 694 Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 as they say a bad days shooting is better than a good day at work 1 Quote Link to post
Alsone 789 Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 We should have had a few more but we are new to it all It's not easy, crows are very wary. Bold as brass in the garden, wary as hell in the countryside. Quote Link to post
Tremo 138 Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 OK. I'll go to work on rainy days ! Thats my plan. Quote Link to post
the big chief 3,099 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 yes found that out fast lol we have a few decoys it helps Quote Link to post
maktayla 50 Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 Well done Gafer It doesn't matter. There's only one good crow and that's a dead one. Keep at it. I agree with Tremor, it doesn't matter. We all have days (I hope, and it's not just me ) where we have been out and things have been extremely quiet, but it by-far beats being stuck in work or the house for that matter. Its just great to be out in nature. I went out yesterday to a new part of a permission I already have. The farmer has just planted 200 acres of apple tree sapplings. He has had to put up deer fencing and obviously fencing to keep out the bunnies. However, he asked me to go down with him yesterday because he was positive there were a few rabbits hopping around his new orchard barking his new saplings. I got there mid-afternoon for an evening and night shooting. As soon as I pulled up into the field, 2 rabbits headed for a fence line into a neighbouring field. I walked up to this fence and it took me ages to find out where they were coming in and out of. They had managed to dig down and back up under the chicken wire. It was the only hole I could see in the entire orchard. After a long walk around the orchard, I sat down patiently some 50-60yds away from the fence where the bunnies had made their escape earlier that day. To my utter frustration, within half an hour or so, the field on the other side of the fence started to come alive with rabbits. Not one of those rabbits came back through that hole they had dug. Typical, I thought. It was worse than Watership Down in that field. I could not shoot at any of them because the field doesn't belong to the same land owner. I am sure they were mocking me So, I came away Cedric worse off than you. Empty handed. Especially when you consider I could actually see the little critters enjoying themselves. I did do one thing though, I made sure they couldn't get back into the orchard through that hole they had obviously spent some time to dig. Got to speak to the farmer now and see if he knows the land owner. If he does, and I get permission,I will have my revenge P.S Did you eat the pigeon? Quote Link to post
toby63 1,236 Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 that crows a jackdaw well spotted ?? Quote Link to post
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