Out Watching And Then Preparing The Hides For Winter Shooting.

[mark williams 7,568]

I`ve been watching and taking note of the times the pigeons are coming in to rest or settle for the long cold nights.

From around 11-30 am the wood pigeons are coming into this large solitary tree for a rest before flying off again to feed.

Then from approx.` 2pm onwards they start to drift back in one`s and two`s.

The hide is a natural hide inside a well honed and internally shaped privot hedge that stays green all year and I use it all year.

 

 

 

 

You cannot walk within a hundred yards of these truly wild wood pigeons, ( not the park,or hand fed one`s Mac & VM shoot )

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mark williams 7,568]

So here`s the natural hide again that you`ve seen in the Summer months.

 

 

 

 

This natural is built 28 yds from the large sitty tree.

 

Here`s the view the hunter sees.

 

 

 

A little trick I was shown years ago is to leave a length of old brush handle, painted black, sticking out of the hide where your barrel would be on hunting days - the pigeons get so used to it that it helps you greatly with very flighty pigeons, come the day you want to shoot.

 

Hard to make out, as I didn`t want to spook these two Bandits ( no camo` no gloves or face veil) if you look dead centre of the photo and then draw your sight slowly right, look how close, Bandits (2) within 25 yds and settled down,- they had no idea I was there.

[Jonjon79 13,358]

That's a nice spot Mark

 

You'll be doing well to take them out of that tree in the second picture with an air rifle.

 

...... good luck mate.

[mark williams 7,568]

Hi Jonjon, when I can get away from work and blasted xmas duties I`ll be going mate.

The bit that will intrigue me is the calibre question - that tree is 28 yds from my very good hide.

 

HW 100 KT .177 AA Fields 8.4 g and the TX 200 HC mk3 .177 JSB Exact Express 7.87 g.

 

V

 

HW 100 KS .22 using FAP`S 13.43 g

 

All trajectories will be on an equal plane through those spindle branches.

 

 

 

 

[Jonjon79 13,358]

At 28 yards mate - I'd be thinking HW100.

 

...... plenty of shots at the flick of a wrist and a .22 thump

 

But, don't forget the pictures of Kaiser. I love seeing him bringing things back

 

Atb

[si brown 8,486]

Hi Jonjon, when I can get away from work and blasted xmas duties I`ll be going mate.

The bit that will intrigue me is the calibre question - that tree is 28 yds from my very good hide.

 

HW 100 KT .177 AA Fields 8.4 g and the TX 200 HC mk3 .177 JSB Exact Express 7.87 g.

 

V

 

HW 100 KS .22 using FAP`S 13.43 g

 

All trajectories will be on an equal plane through those spindle branches.

 

 

 

 

.22 hw100 mark

think I'm gonna get a .22 95.... just think its a better bird cal

looking forward to your hunt

atb si

[David.evans 5,323]

Rubbish

Mark 28 yards , 177 head shots , I know you can do it , we've seen your drawing of pigeon heads enough times

Get out there and bang em up with the 100kt you twat ! Lol

Atb mate

Davec

[Rez 4,961]

I`ve been watching and taking note of the times the pigeons are coming in to rest or settle for the long cold nights.

From around 11-30 am the wood pigeons are coming into this large solitary tree for a rest before flying off again to feed.

Then from approx.` 2pm onwards they start to drift back in one`s and two`s.

The hide is a natural hide inside a well honed and internally shaped privot hedge that stays green all year and I use it all year.

 

 

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You cannot walk within a hundred yards of these truly wild wood pigeons, ( not the park,or hand fed one`s Mac & VM shoot )

 

Just wondering what a standard wood pigeon is then Marko?

 

I hope I haven't been bagging some old dears pets all this time. Wish I could find a hand fed one too

 

That's spot looks mint by the way. Get the old TX out, obviously.

[j j m 6,626]

Looks mint mate

[mark williams 7,568]

This was last week lads and here`s the result again.

All head shot except for the wood pigeon ( between the shoulder blades, if you will).

 

 

 

 

 

I`m tempted to go again today and give the HW 100 KS .22 a run out using the Falcon Accuracy Plus

 

 

 

atb

[si brown 8,486]

go for it mark.. beats Christmas shopping

atb si

[The one 8,592]

very nice mate proves its worth the effort