Thread: Anyone keen on hunting pigeons with bow ??

Anyone setup for smacking birds outta the sky?, have had a few cracks ( with shotgunners ) feel bad ruining their shooting as trying to wait for the right bird to loose an arrow at, when four shotguns will do the job way better.
Anyone had a go before ?? Or keen to ??

@2Quack, This reminds me of the medieval clay pellet shooting crossbows for small bird hunting. What sort of arrow do you use?

you could practice by firing toothpicks at flies

Watch Tim wells smacking dove in Argentinian YouTube .

Originally Posted by berg243

just as an aside to pigeon removal has anyone trapped pigeons.have a few hundred to remove but cant shoot them because of horses around them.

@berg243,

You can get @2Quack to help you out, just need to get some of these first:

Originally Posted by Cordite

@2Quack, This reminds me of the medieval clay pellet shooting crossbows for small bird hunting. What sort of arrow do you use?

Just a standard carbon arrow with floo floo vanes and custom bird arrows

Originally Posted by Friwi

Watch Tim wells smacking dove in Argentinian YouTube .

Yeah those vids got me into it I use the same arrows he uses to " SLOCK " em

@berg23 if the pigeons are roosting nearby then a good air rifle at night is the go

Originally Posted by berg243

I would spend all my time untangling them from the fences if they had those beer googles on

Used to catch a lot alive for my goshawk back at home. Was using one way trap, will see if I can find any pictures. @berg243

There is a poison you can use for pigeons that puts them to sleep, then you can "release" them later.

Here you go https://www.maintracgroup.com/collec...se-bird-poison

Originally Posted by stug

Here you go https://www.maintracgroup.com/collec...se-bird-poison

I was going to seggest the same stuff, and can be picked up from your local farm supplier,PGG, CRT etc. But this supplier is much cheaper, from memory it was closer to $70 from them.
Works a treat

Originally Posted by berg243

yeh they just fly in to eat the horse feed they don't roost there probably number close to 300.real nuisance and crap in the horse feed and can sometimes spook the horses.otherwise would be lining them up with the 410.

Could you not shift horses to a neighbouring paddock some where for a weekend and have a boys weekend out and just go hard with the shottys?

The compound (Alphachloralose) is related to chloral hydrate, an old fashioned human sleeping medication.

The way it works on pigeons is it puts them to sleep and, if temp is below about 15 degrees C, they simply die of hypothermia. A kind death if I might say so.

Birds other than pigeons who have ingested it, e.g. native birds, if found in time can be put into a warm room and usually recover. Not sure about the effect on equines, just don't go there.

Originally Posted by berg243

they have about twenty horses at the moment more coming in the next few weeks and next door the son in law has about fifty trotters and pacers too valuable to risk spooking them.

oh well that is a bastard situation then