great day pigeon shooting over rape

browning 12 bore

well here it is lads a bloody great day i had a absalute great day shooting with my new great friend from here steyman2 we started off the day very late my fault sadly approx 10 am set up the decoys and few floaters and so on well holy god they all started rolling in in massive flocks i had a semi auto browning and sreyman had lovely over and under browning the barrels were red for most of the day could not belive it myself they were really go to town on the rape so the day went through brilliant nice few crossers driven and so on few missed by me i must say very rusty thats my excusie anyway but next time ill be ready lol lol lol few pics here as well lads great bloody day
in total a little over 130 birds thats not counting the birds that flew down and fell over a field away

daithi55

looks like good criac wudn mind a go at it sometime its something ive always ment to do

steyrman2

REPORT from today with jason he was looking for help with pigeons on oil seed rape we had a cracking day bag was over 130 pigeons plenty of birds . As we setup on the flight line plenty of decoys out 60 odd between us the sun was blinding us we bagged 30 odd birds in the first hour then we were both thinking about moving down 20 yards to the side of a gate way .We moved the gear left the decoy pattern as it was still good fixed up the dead birds then the sport started jason using his browning gold semi auto i had my browning 425 sporter we had good craig all day plenty of good shots and some shots wondering how we missed some of them :rolleyes::rolleyes: . there was some great crossing shots by us both along with driven birds time went quick we cleaned up the dead birds every so often we chatted all day about shooting from deer to foxes nice to talk to someone with the same interest we picked up some of the bag before it got to dark hard to take pics when you want to shoot just want to thank jason for the day looking forward to it again thanking you my saying for the day ( ALL I WANT TO DO IS GIVE THE PIGEONS 1 OZ OF LOVING )

declan1980

That was some shooting lads, well done

pheasntstalker

;)well done lads great bag too!! glad the weather held for ye:D

Tawny Owl

That's great shooting lads and all the Birds fell in a line for ye hope you had a great day would have loved to helped out but one of the lads in work was out with a bad back and I had to cover his work as well.

bitemybanger

I was out on Friday myself. set up a good hide and about 20 decoys and only bagged 8 pigeons:o
plenty of birds but they were in huge flocks, miles high and had no intrest in the decoys?
have had good results there in the past as its in a good flightline.

browning 12 bore

well lads have to say we had a great day id highly recommend getting some one with you that has the same interest as my self and as the old saying goes scratch each other backs ill be getting steyman back down again and all i have to say is
SOME PIGEONS WERE IN THE NEXT PARISH ) LOL LOL LOL LOL

It wasn't me!

Looks like great sport lads. would love to try it sometime but there's nobody up my way doing cereals in any quantity.

garv123

What shot size and weight shells were ye using for the pigeons?

steyrman2

Hi we were using a combo of trap 7.5 and 32 gram 6s tbh the 32 gram 6 were better cleaner kills and good ranges .When we moved down the field we got the chance of better shots more crossers but some of the pigeons were coming straight into us we were shooting them less than 8 yards i would recommend using 32 grams this time of year over decoys im sure jason will agree with me

browning 12 bore

hi there lads yes i have to agree with my very good friend there 32 grams really do solid damage to the pigeons none of theis walking pigeons around or anything like that looking forward to be doing it soon again

It wasn't me!

browning 12 bore wrote: »

hi there lads yes i have to agree with my very good friend there 32 grams really do solid damage to the pigeons none of theis walking pigeons around or anything like that looking forward to be doing it soon again

I'm not incredibly experienced with a shotgun but would love to try this sometime if you've got space for a relative novice.