Roost shooting

[Guest air gunner]

do pigeons always roost in the same tree or do they move around? and to roost shoot do you make a hide or can you walk up at about 4:30ish? got one the other day but it was lucky because it landed close bye and it was a clean veiw my second ever pigeon Happy.

[Guest rexdigger]

as soon as all the leaves are off the trees i will be out most nights roost shooting pheasants for the pot

[steve66 3,466]

Any one use a rat catcher for roost shooting , would have thought they'd be handy for that type of work

also anyone had a crack at maggies at night ? had ago afew times certainly not easy but great fun

[Guest world.hunters]

i have used them in the day shot a couple of pigeons and maggies but they are to loud in my opinion

 

W.h

[lewismac1 1]

i think it is illegal to shoot birds using artificial light. and pheasant are not classed as airgun quarry. although in the past i have shot loads after dark.silohoette shooting em agaist the skyline on cloudy night's. nowadays i pass pheasants up as i dont like to eat em [ taste like shit] so i wont kill em just because they sit there and gimme the chance to. vermin on the other hand i will shoot non stop maggies ,crows pigeons ect. but gone are the days were i would shoot summat just because it gives me the chance to. if your eating it thats fine but i know some who shoot em and do nothing with em . they end up binned or fed to the ferrets..l

 

It is illegal to shoot phesants with an airrifle.

 

BASC-

BIRDS: (covered by the open general licences) crows, rooks, jackdaws, magpies, jays, woodpigeon, collared doves, feral pigeons.

 

MAMMALS: brown rats, grey squirrels, stoats, mink and rabbits

[mackem 26,590]

Its legal to shoot them in season with an airgun on your property or land where you have permission to do so

 

http://www.airgunbbs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217469

[Ratman2 2]

i think it is illegal to shoot birds using artificial light. and pheasant are not classed as airgun quarry. although in the past i have shot loads after dark.silohoette shooting em agaist the skyline on cloudy night's. nowadays i pass pheasants up as i dont like to eat em [ taste like shit] so i wont kill em just because they sit there and gimme the chance to. vermin on the other hand i will shoot non stop maggies ,crows pigeons ect. but gone are the days were i would shoot summat just because it gives me the chance to. if your eating it thats fine but i know some who shoot em and do nothing with em . they end up binned or fed to the ferrets..l

 

It is illegal to shoot phesants with an airrifle.

 

BASC-

BIRDS: (covered by the open general licences) crows, rooks, jackdaws, magpies, jays, woodpigeon, collared doves, feral pigeons.

 

MAMMALS: brown rats, grey squirrels, stoats, mink and rabbits

 

I feel sure this refers to vermin, not game.

Rob

[mackem 26,590]

Your property or permission your allowed to shoot them with an airgun

[longrange 0]

one hour after sunset, to one hour before sunrise ?

[mackem 26,590]

Nocturnal driven-pheasant,night time is the right time

[ferret boy charlie 0]

i can remember doing it with a bsa airsporter ........then getting cought lol

[spike25blue 55]

so are you allowed to shoot pheasant as long as it's on the land you have the permission for?

[mackem 26,590]

Yup,despite what more sporting chaps may lead you to believe you can indeed shoot them with your airgun on your permission

[Malt 379]

Jesus, this section has become very self righteous of late, it's starting to get very BBSish.........

 

 

......Have they had another mass chucking out over there or what?

[will.f11 24]

ive shot the odd one on our farm which are eating chicken corn, but apart from that i leave em for the shoots excpet when the odd farmer asks me to shoot them if im out for rabbits