Pigeon shooting

muckyprawn

Hi guys...as a recent "new comer!" to shooting pigeons, I was just wondering do people generally respect the breeding paterns of pigeons or do they just bang away all year round???

ghostmantra

these lads have a lot of info,hope it helps http://homepage.eircom.net/~jamesanthonyryan/index.htm

bunny shooter

muckyprawn wrote: »

Hi guys...as a recent "new comer!" to shooting pigeons, I was just wondering do people generally respect the breeding paterns of pigeons or do they just bang away all year round???

They have a season, November to January, and other than that can only be shot while protecting crops which more or less limits shooting them to when crops are being sown or are ripening and before they are cut. Pigeon can breed all year round with main breeding season during the summer.

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blackstairsboy

Just to add you can shoot pigeons if they are likely to cause damage. So you do not actually have to be shooting them on a crop where there is standing corn and they are flattening it you could shoot them on the next door stubble and be perfectly correct in what you are doing.

Spunk84

muckyprawn wrote: »

Hi guys...as a recent "new comer!" to shooting pigeons

hello there:D

muckyprawn wrote: »

I was just wondering do people generally respect the breeding paterns of pigeons

All hunting folks have to abide by the law;) Their season is November to January

muckyprawn wrote: »

do they just bang away all year round???

You can shoot pigeons all year round if there attacking your crops. Going or coming to attack your crops.

wow so hard to explain:rolleyes:

Sparks

Mod Note:
Lads, the next bitching-over-nothing session that hijacks a thread like that earns people long holidays. We've had to delete more than twice as many posts in here that were just pure bitchiness as we've left or edited because they were actually on topic.
Seriously, give it a rest already.

Tackleberrywho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtgchBXLSo

Nice video on pigeon shooting

muckyprawn

Thanks lads...I was aware that my thread would attract "bitchiness", forums for some reason attract bitches....anyway. I was just trying to find out what the consensus was on it as there does seem to be a lot of confusion on the subject!

Spunk84

Mucky, it's not your thread it's hunting fever LOL the lads always seem to get itchy trigger fingers this time of year, wait till Sept-Nov we will all be nice as pie

Tackleberrywho

Walked 200 acres of barley today and not a pigeon in sight.
However I did see another 300 acres else where of winter barley that is starting to sprout.

Give it a week or two and the Pigeons will be in full flight