Although a shotgun is usually my tool of choice for dealing with crop-raiding pigeons, it can be done with an airgun. Out on open fields, these birds can sometimes be persuaded to land among, or at least close to, a decoy pattern, but it doesn’t always work. A more reliable and generally far less frustrating option is to target pigeons in trees that flank the fields where they are feeding.
I have had some great days shooting pigeons from prominent sitty trees, which they use as stopping points on their way in and out of their feeding grounds. Woods and spinneys next to the fields the birds are hitting can also be productive, especially around lunchtime and dusk, when pigeons flight back for a snooze after their binge.
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One of my recent outings on the pigeons with my
