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.
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Bit of a fark up but still got into them ok
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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.
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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!
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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

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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)

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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

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

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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 :P

Cheers
Pete

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

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Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Does anyone no if a pigeon can live 20 years?

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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...

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Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

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

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

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

Boy that would be fun! Lots of birds for a few hours.

cool looks like it was warm out to:thumbsup:

Excellent shoot. Few less racing pigeons about. A swan was shot last season that was 25years.

That is a local bird from Auckland. Auckland Racing Pigeon Federation.

Guess it has just lost the race:D:thumbsup:

Thats outstanding- well done.:thumbsup:

What is the number on the other side of the band Perazzi?

its not a number dundeec but a quote ""p[iss of back to auckland you poachers"":thumbsup:

Haha and here I would be trying to snipe them all with my 22.

Thats an impressive haul. where abouts was it? Curious to how far they fly for the feeding if you think they mostly come from Auckland.

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Haha and here I would be trying to snipe them all with my 22.

Thats an impressive haul. where abouts was it? Curious to how far they fly for the feeding if you think they mostly come from Auckland.

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philistine, once you have shot properly decoying birds you won't have thoughts about using them as .22 target practice any more. We have rabbits for that sort of carry on.

If you really want a challenge try decoying the rabbits;)

Did you make your own pigeon decoys? Or buy printed ones?

Out pukekohe ways, get birds from Auckland and the steel mill we reckon.
Home made decoys just cut out from real estate sign and painted grey.

A good day on decoying pigeons is about is good as it gets

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If you really want a challenge try decoying the rabbits;)

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Found some bunny decoys , I could spend hrs in the field with them Attachment 18604


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Found some bunny decoys , I could spend hrs in the field with them

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ie caramba i bet you were trouble as a young fella munsey:thumbsup:
how about pidgeon shooting with 22 shot cartridges :wtfsmilie::pissed off::D

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what would you use ??silys and female rabbit scent ??
sod that you might end up out of ammo and raped by hordes of randy agressive buck rabbits.:wtfsmilie:

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how about pidgeon shooting with 22 shot cartridges :wtfsmilie::pissed off::D

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That stuff is absolute rubbish on the mynas I tried it on though 25m may be a bit far for it idk? I've found winchester subs with the big hollow point work great on Pigeons alot better then the standard velocity stuff.

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? I've found winchester subs with the big hollow point work great on Pigeons alot better then the standard velocity stuff.

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my uncle reckoned it was ideal for rats? me? not so much some of the big buggers it just made angry:pissed off:

bit tough on the shed roofs and anything unlucky to be behind the mynas tho toby:bouaaaaah:

perrazi what is the number on that band I can get more info for you with that number.

Hi dundee not sure dont have them on me. Back down in Christchurch

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Originally Posted by PerazziSC3

Hi dundee not sure dont have them on me. Back down in Christchurch

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Shit you just about as quick as a pigeon we released one in Wanganui once and it was back at the loft in Canterbury in 9hrs.

Let me know when you find out,really cool tracking pigeons even if they do have a sudden death.:D

I did some pest control on the local airfield a few years back and bagged a pigeon,traced the owner back to our hometown and he had just let it out for fly while he was having dinner:D

Ha ha funny. Yeah we have a whole string of bands. Usually average 1 band for every hundred shot