Adventure on the school run

As we push further into the autumn months, with gloriously fresh mornings and the sun low in the sky, the pigeon shooting becomes rather sporadic to say the least — especially in a year when the wild harvest has been so bountiful.

It’s a little boom or bust at the moment. You put in plenty of miles on reconnaissance for not very much. Patience is, as always, the key as well as an understanding that the pigeon will be enjoying the woodland fruits unless there is something to entice them on to the farmers’ fields.

But surprisingly, even when the wild harvest is high, you can get those couple of days where birds suddenly switch back on to an