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Some pigeons for the pot

Woodpigeon control has always been a complicated process at my local permission, as they tend to be a problem all over the farm. If I set up for a decoying session, all that happens is they move to another food source and without a team of Guns, productivity is limited. I have had ups and downs on this quest, days with hardly a bird where I am as effective as a string of bangers and others where the planets align and birds come streaming in, one after another. These perfect days are once in a blue moon, when the conditions are just right and it is worth a lone reccy.

“There I was at 7am, under a dark sky but full of hope”

A couple of years ago I managed to break my personal decoying record bag, when (by pure accident)

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