“I was caught out by two sneaking in low along the upwind side of the hedge” It only seems a short while since I was lamenting the lack of pigeon-shooting opportunities. There’s always a gap between wringing out the last hour or two on the flowering spring rape – with few chances of a decent decoying session – until the first bits of laid corn come along to provide another opportunity for some pigeon-shooting action.
One moment the barley was barely knee high, green as grass and attracting little more than the latest batch of hedgerow bunnies, then suddenly, the ears had sprouted, swelled out and rapidly developed into potential pigeon grub.
At this critical stage of growth, cereal plants are at their most vulnerable, particularly in stormy weather. With…
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Sporting Gun (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2016