bloody pigeons.

[midge28 6]

got out on 200 acre rape field today in bale hide soon too be joined by 3 other guns set up in other bale hides. no matter what we tried the bloody things would not decoy, ther must of been thousands on the move all day as the guns kept them on the move , tried floaters, magnet, flappers, with and without but they just didnt wanna know, ended up with 5 in the bag, bad day would of been better shooting em as they come back ta roost. what the hell do ya do ta get them interested, anyone else getting days like this.

[activeviii 8]

got out on 200 acre rape field today in bale hide soon too be joined by 3 other guns set up in other bale hides. no matter what we tried the bloody things would not decoy, there must of been thousands on the move all day as the guns kept them on the move , tried floaters, magnet, flappers, with and without but they just didnt wanna know, ended up with 5 in the bag, bad day would of been better shooting em as they come back ta roost. what the hell do ya do ta get them interested, anyone else getting days like this.

 

 

Yep! same here. was st up by 7am and the first ones came in at 8.30am. bit behind on the first shot of the morning but saved plucking his tail end. on the flapper with that bird but i had to stick some tail feathers back in first.lol.

then the rotary battery died and that was that.

big flocks just swaying a round but i notice a bit of a pattern and i was 300 yrds away from a wire fence.

stayed where i was until 10am but only one more bird in the bag so i packed up and took just the flapper and bouncer along with a net and gun over to the fence and just sat on the floor against the fence with the net just loose over me and hooks as the sides onto the fence.

1/2hr later a massive flock flew over but kept on flying with a smaller flock behind so up with the gun and but the birds were very very high so a big lead on one and chuffed to bits as it landed 100yrds away in the field next door.

midday and nothing else moving so home for coffee.

 

3 birds for a morning play. still better than a day at work

[charlie b 0]

with so much standing wheat in my area the birds are filling up quick then chilling out most of the day the only way we have had a few shots is on a flight line i dare not count my cartridge to kill ratio

[midge28 6]

i was right under the flight line, hundreds of birds overhead all day with no interest no matter what we tried, maybe there getting wise to the decoys, anyone got any tips i could try to pull em down , tried rotary, no rotary, flappers, no flappers. got 2 chris green floaters. still not interested.

[alimac 882]

your hide quality??? or were they feeding on this particular field, if there is something they like on a park a mile away your losing a battle you cant win... they need to want to be on the particular one ur set up on

[springerman 2]

got out on 200 acre rape field today in bale hide soon too be joined by 3 other guns set up in other bale hides. no matter what we tried the bloody things would not decoy, ther must of been thousands on the move all day as the guns kept them on the move , tried floaters, magnet, flappers, with and without but they just didnt wanna know, ended up with 5 in the bag, bad day would of been better shooting em as they come back ta roost. what the hell do ya do ta get them interested, anyone else getting days like this.

yep same in our area they are feeding on the rape you walk em off and they dont come back .they just go and find another field to feed on !

[midge28 6]

we were in a bale hide, pigeons deinately feeding on here, sometimes landing few hundred metres away from us, bale hides been out a few weeks, when shooting from bale hide , do people still put a net over to cover some of top, first time i shot from bale hide

[alimac 882]

we were in a bale hide, pigeons deinately feeding on here, sometimes landing few hundred metres away from us, bale hides been out a few weeks, when shooting from bale hide , do people still put a net over to cover some of top, first time i shot from bale hide

yes always, only leave a shooting window at the front, from say from ten too two, thats presuming your killing area is at 12

[midge28 6]

we were in a bale hide, pigeons deinately feeding on here, sometimes landing few hundred metres away from us, bale hides been out a few weeks, when shooting from bale hide , do people still put a net over to cover some of top, first time i shot from bale hide

yes always, only leave a shooting window at the front, from say from ten too two, thats presuming your killing area is at 12

thanks for the tip, think our hide building needs looking at . pigeons are realy hitting the rape now. will try again.

[davidomarr 0]

im glad other people r struggling ,its not just me ha ha! massive numbers on my land but just circle round my deeks n flock off (grrrrrr) 3 hours in a hide sat morning proved a waste of time but ill persist. wat works 1 day wont work another

[millie 1]

got out on 200 acre rape field today in bale hide soon too be joined by 3 other guns set up in other bale hides. no matter what we tried the bloody things would not decoy, ther must of been thousands on the move all day as the guns kept them on the move , tried floaters, magnet, flappers, with and without but they just didnt wanna know, ended up with 5 in the bag, bad day would of been better shooting em as they come back ta roost. what the hell do ya do ta get them interested, anyone else getting days like this.

 

 

Its hopeless,if the bird's are in big numbers you're wasting your time....if theres big flocks on your land,walk them off the fields till your in you're hide...never let a shot off on big flocks...or they'll stay away..

[Hunting-top-shots 2]

Hi,

 

If you are shooting from bail hides then as Alimac said you should just leave a shooting window at the front and cover up the top anything from an old sheet with a bit of dirt and some hay on it or a camo het.

 

another thing is you should not try and shoot at the big flocks because one shot and they all leave. try this seeing as you are set up with 3 other guys seting up the rotarys in the middel of the field and insted of putting pigeons on there put white plastic bags on and then let them run or you can try using plastic bags on floaters I have found that this tends to break up the flock when they are flying in, into smaller groups of 5- 7 birds that will then decoy.

 

the decoy patern has also to be different you will have to use clumps of decoys infront of you meaning at least 20 decoys in one group and then the same in the next group with a big space in the middle there is no point trying to use the classical V setup as the pigeons are all in flocks and land at the same time.

 

I will try and make up a PDF classic HTS style to show you how I set up I was siting on a rape field yesterday and baged 82 using this method, give it a go and let us know if it worked

[midge28 6]

Hi,

 

If you are shooting from bail hides then as Alimac said you should just leave a shooting window at the front and cover up the top anything from an old sheet with a bit of dirt and some hay on it or a camo het.

 

another thing is you should not try and shoot at the big flocks because one shot and they all leave. try this seeing as you are set up with 3 other guys seting up the rotarys in the middel of the field and insted of putting pigeons on there put white plastic bags on and then let them run or you can try using plastic bags on floaters I have found that this tends to break up the flock when they are flying in, into smaller groups of 5- 7 birds that will then decoy.

 

the decoy patern has also to be different you will have to use clumps of decoys infront of you meaning at least 20 decoys in one group and then the same in the next group with a big space in the middle there is no point trying to use the classical V setup as the pigeons are all in flocks and land at the same time.

 

I will try and make up a PDF classic HTS style to show you how I set up I was siting on a rape field yesterday and baged 82 using this method, give it a go and let us know if it worked

that would be brill if you could make up a PDF to show this method, went out to same fields on sunday morning to have a look and a little roost shooting in the woods, were other people just packing up from the same bale hides saying they were having exact same probs, hundreds of pigeons but just wont decoy, any tips that might help would be appreciated. sounds like you had a brill day bagging 82, worth going out in the cold for,