Woodpigeon: pest or a quarry species?

[JTO]

Interesting link in the latest BASC letter:- Tuscan Pigeon & Borlotti Bean Stew Recipe | Abel & Cole

 

[User00053]

I stalk everything.Rats,foxes, pigeons,pheasant.In fact there’s not much I haven’t stalked in my time.

Think some of us were fortunate in having a airgun from an early age and access to quarry or land where skills were learnt in stalking and shooting many things including learning windage and elevation John Wayne style having cut teeth on catapult.
Still spend many a happy hour sat in bedroom window having multiple shots and bags of fun watching puffs of feathers float on the wind. Edit. Do miss shooting shooting stinkers and house sparrows

 

[HonestJohn]

Perhaps the answer is to go back to the situation that we had before being in the EU.

Or better,
Re join the EU

 

[LuckyEddie]

Think some of us were fortunate in having a airgun from an early age and access to quarry or land where skills were learnt in stalking and shooting many things including learning windage and elevation John Wayne style having cut teeth on catapult.
Still spend many a happy hour sat in bedroom window having multiple shots and bags of fun watching puffs of feathers float on the wind. Edit. Do miss shooting shooting stinkers and house sparrows

Stinkers? Don’t know that one
Much the same of yourself

 

[VSS]

Stinkers? Don’t know that one

Starlings.

 

[User00053]

Stinker Eddie, slang for starling now protected though have heard of badgers been called stinkers also in some parts of the country, to avoid the old doubt I referred to starlings and in particular shooting them with an air rifle when legal to do and a pest species.
Hope this helps.

 

[starr shot]

I’m sure you are very good at it too.

Not to bad.Sometimes I stalk in watch something for ages then stalk back out

 

[LuckyEddie]

Stinker Eddie, slang for starling now protected though have heard of badgers been called stinkers also in some parts of the country, to avoid the old doubt I referred to starlings and in particular shooting them with an air rifle when legal to do and a pest species.
Hope this helps.

I thought it was starlings but had been auto corrected
Did much the same as the starlings nested in various chimneys in the row of houses where I lived, which the neighbours didn’t want and let me shoot cart-blanche.
As well as the spuggies (sparrows where I come from)
Rabbits in the local sand quarry and disused railway embankment and pigeons in a small copse next to the golf course.

Oh for those care free and innocent days!

 

[User00053]

Had forgot about calling them spuggies and sporting little fellows and made some good bags, care free days indeedy and taught you how to shoot .