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A good day on winter rape

Successful days’ decoying pigeons on winter rape are few and far between but every now and then the stars align and surprise, surprise a good day evolves. My pigeon shooting pal A.C. spends the winter out on duty shoots on vast fields of winter rape and scores brownie points with the farmers who welcome us in the good times on spring drillings, summer peas and stubbles. I am fortunate to get out on several

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