It's not just you, I gave up pigeon shooting last year after several hundred wasted hours sat in a hide, and for what?... A lousy bag of 5 or 6 birds. It's not like you can just nip out with a shotgun either, there's so much gear to carry and set up. Hide, nets, poles, decoys, flappers, seat, cartridges, gun, flask of coffee, something to read during the hours of just sitting there watching the sky.
It's not for me
It IS magic though!If you like pigeon decoying, you'll LOVE wildfowling! Same sort of thing but in horrendous conditions at hours of which most of humanity is ignorant.
It's not just you, I gave up pigeon shooting last year after several hundred wasted hours sat in a hide, and for what?... A lousy bag of 5 or 6 birds. It's not like you can just nip out with a shotgun either, there's so much gear to carry and set up. Hide, nets, poles, decoys, flappers, seat, cartridges, gun, flask of coffee, something to read during the hours of just sitting there watching the sky.
It's not for me
the secret to good bags this time of year is getting as many guns out as possible get the birds moving, and watching the field just because theres birds on the crop means nothing its the traffic in and out you should be watching for if all 500+ pigeons landed together chances are they will fly of together and proberly not come back its the odd birds dropping in and out you need to look for.
if your patterns not working get out and change it if you think the rotarys making birds flare of bring it in etc most bad days are self inflicted
Went out last friday, set up before daycrack on a smallish ( 20 acre ) rape field I`d been watching for a week or so, I used 6 dead birds to start with as decoys and just kept putting them out as I shot them untill I had about 30 out. I packed in at 11.30 ran out of cartridges 200 shots for 163 pigeons
Woody`s aren`t daft, unlike a lot of people who try to shoot them ( not directed at anybody inparticular ) , same as anything else you have to put quite a bit of time in doing your homework for flightlines, feeding times, wind etc.etc.etc. don`t expect to see a field of rape and expect pigeons to use it, then set up and expect to bag up
My mate went back to the same field ( opposite side ) yesterday and shot over 100
Bob
the secret to good bags this time of year is getting as many guns out as possible get the birds moving, and watching the field just because theres birds on the crop means nothing its the traffic in and out you should be watching for if all 500+ pigeons landed together chances are they will fly of together and proberly not come back its the odd birds dropping in and out you need to look for.
if your patterns not working get out and change it if you think the rotarys making birds flare of bring it in etc most bad days are self inflicted