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Congrats to Patty. Tell her a fellow Yildiz shooter from GA gives her a "thumbs up"!


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Originally Posted by Stanton Hillis
Congrats to Patty. Tell her a fellow Yildiz shooter from GA gives her a "thumbs up"!

Thanks so much! I'll pass on your kind words to Patty

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Greg, I sure do look forward to your hunts and pics... I'm really glad Patty is enjoying time in the field with the old man ! !

Congrats to both of ya'll... Karl

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Originally Posted by Classicioi
Greg, I sure do look forward to your hunts and pics... I'm really glad Patty is enjoying time in the field with the old man ! !

Congrats to both of ya'll... Karl


Thanks so much Karl! Good to hear from you! I'll pass on your congrats to Patty!

Stay well old friend!

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a bit different, but my friend here in the montana country side has an old granary that is completely infested with pigeons - these are big grain fed birds. [he leases his place to an certified organic farmer ] and they make difficult targets. there are literally hundreds of them

they roost in this granary :

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and fly in and out of the right side of the little cupola. they come as singles , doubles and more. after the first shots are made, they take every manner of evasive maneuver. looks easy but can be humiliating.. the ones exiting move fast, the incoming are of course slower

here are a few of them...big fat birds and good to eat:

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i was using this dainty little spanish BLE 28 gauge, very light weight. using # 6s, and passing up lots of shots, but when you hit them, it works quite well

boring pictures but the only birds i have shot this fall so far.

[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]

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Interesting top photo, cable. I've seen pigeons roost in old abandoned grain bins here, that the bottle cap lid was missing on, and shot them the same way, but I've never seen a grain "bin" built in that way. Thanks for posting that.


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When I was a teenager, about every two years the city would have a pigeon shoot on the Court House square. This was to help control the mess they made everywhere. I haven't seen a pigeon in over 20 years, I don't miss them, but miss the shoots. I guess they learned a different way to control them. I'm pretty sure we didn't shoot them all.
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Sometimes here is N.C. we get some pigeons mixed in with the doves. Lot's of fun. They can take a good shot and keep flying. Would love to be there with you.


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Originally Posted by Der Ami
When I was a teenager, about every two years the city would have a pigeon shoot on the Court House square. This was to help control the mess they made everywhere. I haven't seen a pigeon in over 20 years, I don't miss them, but miss the shoots. I guess they learned a different way to control them. I'm pretty sure we didn't shoot them all.
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About 25 yeas ago I had traps set up to catch pigeons in town. Caught about 150 before I got a visit from a city official who was outraged I was catching pigeons and using them for dog training. He just introduced a bill in city counsel to outlaw what I was doing. Knowing it would pass, my city trapping days were over. Funny thing was up until then nobody cared about the pigeons one way or another.

So I pulled my traps to just outside town, which was a decent location but only about half as good as downtown. About two months later my pigeon catching went down to almost zero all of a sudden. I asked a friend, whose roof top had been my earlier trap location, where all the pigeons had gone to. He explained that after I stopped trapping numbers seemed to increase, crap was everywhere and people were complaining, something must be done. So the city put out rat poison which the pigeons eat up like candy. They were dropping dead everywhere for about a month. Numbers went down from 500 to about 20 in a month. Today, 25 years later, you never see pigeons downtown because if they appear out goes the rat poison to knock them down. “We are from the government and here to help” is a scary concept.

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Hey all, went out solo today. Nice day. It was hot, dry and no real wind...you know those perfect scenting conditions! But, I did manage to get a Hun and a Sharpie. I should have had one more grouse, but......I blew the shot! Well, it ain't the first time and sure as heck won't be the last. Addie did very well considering. She's doing darn good, very happy with her.

Today was Hammer time. I used my 16ga Carl Goluch

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