Pigeon Shooting 28/3/15

[Jairon Fletcher 29]

GOLD!

We hit gold on the 28th of March when a local farmer asked for our assistance in denting the population of a derelict shed and derelict house filled with ferells, so we walked the quarter of a mile road from the gate we pulled up at to our destination, 4 guns out of the 6 ready huntsmen, our thoughts were 2 guns can lead one side of the shed and 1 gun in the shed and 1 gun on the other side of a smaller open plan, all shooting north for safety in a (more or less) straight line, radios and signal calls learnt for contact with a 5 minute break to pick up and talk between, on this days shoot.

The day begins...

Open the bag and spread the decoys out, loaded the S410 air arms and set up a hide (using mesh and wood) in the corner of a former cattle shed or hay stack yard (former use is unknown) and things start well! When they land we pick a few off at a time.

 

After an unspecified, good amount of hours it starts to sunset, so we wonder over in hope to the derelict house. I walk through an open doorway to a ruined kitchen, I open a hatch lock door and from diagonal to the rooms diagonal is a doorway looking straight into 2 ferels! I shout over the other team and in disbelief we'd get anything here and I take the shot... A PERFECT heart shot!

"Thats another on the head count" we geer as we check the rest of the rooms, but nothing in this section, safely we make our way round to the next section.

 

As we cant risk walking up the stairs we check the shattered windows with the scope and scan from room to room on the outside.

We spot a little nest.

2 ferels and a magazine of 4 shots on an angle, unsure of the accuracy i will get, I take the shot as there isn't room for another gun...

Thats 2 more for the head count using 3 pellets. 1 miss and 2 almost perfect hits.

 

We go inside to collect and venture round the other side where there's an old shed (former cattle/pig/sheep) shack, sneekily we move around and use our binoculars to look for holes in the roofing that the targets of this operation, could fly through, I reload the magazine and find a high point to watch the hole with my scope, the 2 team members without guns, prepare bush beating methods to scare the pigeons out on a hop me and another member would be able to hit anything, another gun at a different vantage point scoping the same hole. and the last 2 guns stepped out of this one to have a look in the wooded area, in agreement nothing will be shot from this operation.

 

We waited a good 20 mins for the shack to settle and then found ourselves seeing 30 to 40 pigeons moving in and out of this hole!

This was important as we wanted to break our recent record this year, we wanted this more than we thought I supposed, so we took our time.

 

The beaters cued with whistles that they were about to start, they clapped and banged the corrigated metal, threw small pebbles and brick shards in the shed and shouted "OY OY OY!".

When they began we steadied our scopes and in canon the other gun went first, while he cocked his I took my shot... MISS! In such a confined area I had hit a tile, and then again... MISS! my awful shooting wasn't helping our target (to beat our year record) and another... FINALLY A HIT! 1 fell while the other hunters pigeons fell every time, I started to get my game on and I left that operation with 29 head and he left with 30 head. We couldnt wait to tell the other 2 guns, as they had wasted their time looking over the tree tops in a hide hoping for a near by landing.

 

When added to the head count we set a new year record.

Pleased, the 6 of us walked away as a team.

The farmer was very grateful, If you'd like our support contact our team by youtube at "How-to-hunting" and filtering to channels (as this isnt a big channel but we just put general support and "how to" videos or by this hunting forum.

We're always happy to help the community.

Thankyou for reading.

[villaman 9,979]

This should be in the airgun section

Good write up

Edited March 28, 2015 by villaman

[moxy 617]

This should be in the airgun section

Good write up

Agreed

[j j m 6,480]

Good write up bud

[random 659]

Nice when we get a longer post with some detail,next time stick some pics up!!

[Lloyd57 98]

Nice write up mate.

[mark williams 7,549]

Good write up Jairon

 

atb

[pernod 466]

Hi mate a good wee write up, but why didnt you go in the shed at night and shoot them at roost. You would kill a lot more...

 

 

pernod

[The one 8,396]

Thats good numbers mate

[socks 32,253]

My god this lad is a Plummer in the making .........

[Jairon Fletcher 29]

Cheers guys for the positive feed back, but it was a team effort, i only put it in the pigeon shooting section because i didnt realise there was an air gun section for a write up haha.

Thankyou very much for reading and enjoying and id love some tips if anyone has any?

[socks 32,253]

Cheers guys for the positive feed back, but it was a team effort, i only put it in the pigeon shooting section because i didnt realise there was an air gun section for a write up haha.

Thankyou very much for reading and enjoying and id love some tips if anyone has any?

Here's a top tip for you .... STOP WRITING BULLSHIT ...........