With a request from a local farmer to shoot some pigeon and crows that were causing damage to his spring barley drilling, I decided on a few hours one afternoon . Arriving at the field by 1pm there was a few birds feeding and quite a few moving in the wood a mile or so away ,has most pigeons at this time of the year 3 pm is a main feeding time . By 1.45 I was set up with my hide and the decoys were placed to the left and forward of me with the wind blowing from me to the decoys , When decoying these birds field craft is most important you need a least a 15 to 20 decoys placed so the birds will cross either left to right in front what is known has the killing zone . You will find that when decoying pigeon and crows there is many variations of shots such has a left and right crossers the high divers to the decoys and also the unexpected that come from behind such has going away birds
I decided has there had been a lot of talk on the over and under I decide to give one of a pair an outing using a load of 2.3/4 drms of FFFg with 2 1/8 cards over powder to 1.1/8 oz of number 6 shot and a1/16 card over shot I settled in for a afternoon sport .Before I had properly settled in the first bird came it was a easy bird from left to right which I missed not properly swinging through an was behind . After missing a couple of birds shooting behind it was now time to get into the swing through ,and after that I began to kill my birds most shots you remember but on this day there was one that stands out and
was a pair of carrion crows , these birds a very territorial
at this time of the year and I could see them sitting on the tree tops in the wood , I called them a few times using my caller and they responded and came to the decoys calling and screaming at the decoys and proved a simple left and right shots Carrion crows at this time of year do a lot of damage to birds nests and also attack new born lambs picking out their eyes and tongues . By 4.30 I decided to call it a day I counted the bag which was a mix of 45 head not bad , pleased with the over and under no misfires and no swabbing .
Feltwad
I decided has there had been a lot of talk on the over and under I decide to give one of a pair an outing using a load of 2.3/4 drms of FFFg with 2 1/8 cards over powder to 1.1/8 oz of number 6 shot and a1/16 card over shot I settled in for a afternoon sport .Before I had properly settled in the first bird came it was a easy bird from left to right which I missed not properly swinging through an was behind . After missing a couple of birds shooting behind it was now time to get into the swing through ,and after that I began to kill my birds most shots you remember but on this day there was one that stands out and
at this time of the year and I could see them sitting on the tree tops in the wood , I called them a few times using my caller and they responded and came to the decoys calling and screaming at the decoys and proved a simple left and right shots Carrion crows at this time of year do a lot of damage to birds nests and also attack new born lambs picking out their eyes and tongues . By 4.30 I decided to call it a day I counted the bag which was a mix of 45 head not bad , pleased with the over and under no misfires and no swabbing .
Feltwad