Pigeons 2019

[GreenDrake]

On a much needed vacation with my wife. Drive up to Quebec City. The old city is quite beautiful. Resting up for a pigeon fest when we return!!!

[GreenDrake]

Back from our travels. Took a drive through all my prime areas. They started cutting wheat today...one field the birds were already in it this evening.  Ill give them a coupke days to find the fields in big numbers. Hunted an half hour this evening at a dairy. 4 came in to the decoys sll at once and killed them all. Got a neat white tipped winged one. 

[GreenDrake]

Good shoot this morning. The big flocks are starting to fly good. Killed 25....4 fell in the high grass and couldn't be recovered. I was just hunting over a cut hayfield until thry start hitying the cut wheat. Couple neat looking birds today too. 

[GreenDrake]

Decent shoot this morning. Haven’t hit the cut wheat yet as I am saving the first wheat shoots to go with my nephew. We should tally some big numbers. 18 this morning. First quadruple of the season. 4 came in at once 4 shots got them all. 

[GreenDrake]

Couldn’t get out all week. Settled a trial this morning so took a scouting run. Hundreds of birds using one of the cut wheat fields. Nephew and I are going to hit it in the morning in hopes of our first big number day. We shall see. 

[GreenDrake]

Great shoot this morning over cut wheat.  We killed 115 and ran out of shells. Nephew forgot to bring a case of shells. Lucky we had the shells we did. 

[GreenDrake]

Decent shoot this morning. Nephew and I got 67. Tried a new spot.  Not nearly as many birds flying but it will get better in the next couple weeks. Overall a good weekend. I may gout out for the afternoon hunt to see what happens. 

[GreenDrake]

Pretty good shoot this morning. First spot the birds were bypassing our area and heading out into the wind. Hundreds of birds. We left and went to another spot about 10 miles away. We missed the big early flights but still managed to kill 53. 

[Rattler]

Sure sounds like a great time in the field, especially at this time of year.  Sadly, in my area of the Catskills, we don't seem to have many pigeons around.  At least not that I know of.  The farms around here don't seem to have them around.  Mostly dairy farms around here.

[GreenDrake]

Very slow yesterday. The birds again skirted our area and headed somewhere we couldn't identify. We moved to another spot and got 24. The main problem this year is that most all the wheat fields had green undergrowth. They had to cut it higher, and they now look like clover fields. There are a few clean wheat cut fields but I have not asked for permission. Some are just to close to homes, etc to shoot comfortably although it is perfectly safe. I don't relish upset homeowners coming across fields (they do not own) asking what we are doing. We will figure it out. We killed nearly 500 for the season so far.

[bruno1]

Found the mother load today as I was checking trailcams so figured I throw out the trap

[GreenDrake]

Best hunt we ever had. Nephew and I killed 228 before we called it quits. Birds were still flying and coming into our set as we were picking up the dead and decoys. He made a couple shots today that I still cannot fathom. 

[turkeyfeathers]

7 minutes ago, GreenDrake said:

Best hunt we ever had. Nephew and I killed 228 before we called it quits. Birds were still flying and coming into our set as we were picking up the dead and decoys. He made a couple shots today that I still cannot fathom. 

Wow ! Hunting Central Park in NYC  today ?   Nice shooting

[GreenDrake]

A cut wheat field.  One of the only wheat fields around with no green undergrowth this year.  They were piling in.  It was insanity

[chrisw]

Squab!

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[Pygmy]

8 hours ago, GreenDrake said:

A cut wheat field.  One of the only wheat fields around with no green undergrowth this year.  They were piling in.  It was insanity

Sounds like about as much fun as a guy can have with his clothes on  !!….

[GreenDrake]

My nephew had a difficult time concentrating at work today. All he could think of was the clouds of birds descending by the hundreds over the decoys. The hardest part was picking out singles to shoot. He got 4 birds in one shot then 4 singles with remaining shells. Best I did was a triple followed by 2 singles. The most fun was when 6-8 came in and we cleaned them all out in single shots. Planning the sequence as they are coming in and then changing quickly as they do some crazy things as they approach the decoys. 

[Nytracker]

Looks like a wing shooter's dream.

Edited August 27, 2019 by Nytracker

[GreenDrake]

I have created a monster. My nephew is using his lunch hour to drive the roads scouting for pigeons. I must have logged 2500 miles this spring and early summer scouting areas. He is hoping for a repeat this weekend.

[GreenDrake]

Good shoot this morning. 95 killed. Most big flocks bypassed our field

[GreenDrake]

Haven’t been out in 2 weeks. Have been working our deer property and finally have it all ready to go. Going out in the morning with my nephew.  We have killed 663 do far this summer.  Trying to hit 1000 before rifle season starts. 

[GreenDrake]

First winter pigeon shoot. Nephew and I killed 44 pigeons and 3 crows. Will fire up the foxpro as soon as deer is closed and get on the crows big time!!!