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Best thing to do is get out in the motor with a pair of binoculars and just spend some time watching them. By doing this you'll learn their habits it could well be that they aren't using the wood that you've been trying. They like somewhere where they can really tuck themselves in like conifers or older deciduous woods where you find big old oaks covered in ivy. Best days to do it are the ones with the worst weather because on these nights the pigeons want somewhere really warm whereas in a milder night they go just about anywhere. Traditionally roost shooting is done very early in the year so could be worthwhile giving the woods a rest for a month and keep an eye on them and the sport coul develop.

Hope this helps

Atb Ratsmasher

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If you're going in the morning you don't want to be where they roost because they wil all be there and you'll only get one shot. You need to find out where they go. Sometimes they will flight into any trees adjacent to a field where they are feeding and you can sometimes get a bit of sport thee but I still think your best bet is in a good roosting wood

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In the heavy winds we've had lately they will more than likely be roosting low, they also like to roost around or over water , and in places with good cover like larches and evergreens, best time to go I about 1 at this time of year, that gives you about 3 and a half hours of shooting, they won't all come in at once, or all to the same place, it will be in drips and drabs, walk through the wood at night and see where they get up from

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