Thread: Pigeon shoot

Went for a pigeon shot this morning. Early start at 5am and was set up and ready to roll at 6.30am, turns out we were about an hour late as 500 odd birds were already in with big mobs landing as we were setting up.

Bit of a fark up but still got into them ok

Good weather and the birds were decoying in extremely well which made for some quick close shooting. I burnt my hand a few times on the barrel as it was pretty full on for the firat hour.



Ended up going quite very quick and we wrre basically done at 9.00. Ended up staying u til 10 and picked up the odd bird.
Got a few more bands. One was banded in 1994, , nearly 20 years old!

A bit over 250 for the morning, would have been significantly more if we got there earlier but not complaining to much


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Some more bands


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Good shit!

Mean!

How many pigeons would you normally get for a "standard day"? Are you always set up first thing in the morning? Some of the guys that I know that shoot pigeons told me that you could set up about 10.00am and shoot from then on (It did not sound correct)

Well done. So how many did you get? Ha ha ha ha

Originally Posted by Kimber2506

How many pigeons would you normally get for a "standard day"? Are you always set up first thing in the morning? Some of the guys that I know that shoot pigeons told me that you could set up about 10.00am and shoot from then on (It did not sound correct)

You would get fark all if you did that where we shoot. We get auckland city birds mainly coming out to feed and its always quite by 10am. This was unusually early for birds to be here as it takes awhile to fly from city, probably came from somewhere else.

Picks up again on the afternoon/evening.

Standard morning-lunch with 3-4 shooters is 250-350.

Excellent is 450-600. Ammo usually dwindles by then

Originally Posted by Rushy

Well done. So how many did you get? Ha ha ha ha

Their were 3 of us shooting, I certainly shot more than my share...

A good day for us is 30 haha

Good shooting PerazziSC3

Pigeon Pie .... num num num

Cheers
Pete

Does anyone no if a pigeon can live 20 years???
Or maybe someone has put on an old band

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Does anyone no if a pigeon can live 20 years?

Clearly not if it flies past you.

Twenty years...wow...I understand they can live for many years...fantastic how it would have survived that long...

Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Does anyone no if a pigeon can live 20 years???
Or maybe someone has put on an old band

Try eating it ! You will soon no if it's 20 yrs old . 250 that's a good shoot !

Certainty impressively old. Nearly as old as me which is pretty amazing