Maybe a one for @Tim.243 but sure there are a few other regular pigeon botherers on here…
Long story short, recently moved, starting to build relationships in the village and already offer to shoot pigeons on neighbours farm. Happy days and not needing to be asked twice, as soon as time allowed I was off out on some recently drilled barley.
It’s probably 15 years since I last decoyed pigeons and boy it showed! I used to do so regularly and with decent success. Still, managed just over 40 for less than 100 cartridges in a few hours today but should have been more.
I digress. What’s the go-to decoys these days? Very slow going until I got a few dead birds in the pattern and on the whirly. I’ve got a bunch of cheap, shiny half-shell decoys and a dozen or so of those wind-sock things. I guess times have moved on?!
Wind to my back, basic U shape pattern, whirly on one side, flapper in the pattern somewhere and a bouncer well out. even with plenty of dead birds in the pattern they still seemed reluctant to properly commit at times. Help me remeber what I’m doing - it’s been a while

Long story short, recently moved, starting to build relationships in the village and already offer to shoot pigeons on neighbours farm. Happy days and not needing to be asked twice, as soon as time allowed I was off out on some recently drilled barley.
It’s probably 15 years since I last decoyed pigeons and boy it showed! I used to do so regularly and with decent success. Still, managed just over 40 for less than 100 cartridges in a few hours today but should have been more.
I digress. What’s the go-to decoys these days? Very slow going until I got a few dead birds in the pattern and on the whirly. I’ve got a bunch of cheap, shiny half-shell decoys and a dozen or so of those wind-sock things. I guess times have moved on?!
Wind to my back, basic U shape pattern, whirly on one side, flapper in the pattern somewhere and a bouncer well out. even with plenty of dead birds in the pattern they still seemed reluctant to properly commit at times. Help me remeber what I’m doing - it’s been a while

