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    How to choose your moment

    Jul 02, 2019 3 minutes

    If you’re lucky enough to have one of those perfect decoying days, the wind and sun on your back, a perfect hedgerow to make a well-concealed hide and eager, hungry birds piling into your decoy pattern in ones, twos and threes, how do you decide which pigeon to shoot first? This advice may help you achieve a decent bag if you’re ‘shooting straight’.

    If only one bird arrives over your pattern, the choice is made for you. Choosing the best time to shoot is something you will pick up with experience. Watching pigeons’

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