ROOST SHOOTING FOR LATE-WINTER WOODIES
Late winter visits to the woods are all about targeting woodpigeons for me. The pheasant shooting season has finished, so I have the run of the coverts, and the bare trees make it easy to spot woodies when they’re perched in the treetops.
The estate where I do most of my shooting has a large acreage of arable land, much of which has been used for rape crops this year. The rape’s leafy green foliage provides a rich food source for woodpigeons at a time of year when there isn’t much else around for them. Flocks of woodies have been hitting one of the bigger fields, which could result in a serious financial loss for the farmer.
I spent a day trying to decoy the offending pigeons within range of a carefully constructed hide, but the attention the birds have been receiving from shotgunners has made them extremely flighty and they
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