Pigeons and barley.

[Britsmoothy]

I get to play scarecrow with a real gun on some local barley fields.
It's a little slow so far this season with just the local birds visiting so after a few shots they are gone.
I guess I'm keeping them off and it beats TV anytime.
I have been using a light load of 1oz or a little less and about 60gns of my finest grade.
The Beretta likes it a lot but my old Pedersoli not so good.
It's amazing how differing guns like to be loaded differently.

 

[3Setters]

Word got out you never miss, the pigeons are afraid to come in.

 

[leadhoarder]

Word got out you never miss, the pigeons are afraid to come in.

You got to miss a few or they will never fly away to tell their friends.

 

[Brokennock]

just the local birds visiting

How do you tell that they are local? Different accent for out of towers?
Lol

 

[Old Timer 48]

Your having fun, That's what counts!

 

[MTGUNNER]

I get to play scarecrow with a real gun on some local barley fields.
It's a little slow so far this season with just the local birds visiting so after a few shots they are gone.
I guess I'm keeping them off and it beats TV anytime.
I have been using a light load of 1oz or a little less and about 60gns of my finest grade.
The Beretta likes it a lot but my old Pedersoli not so good.
It's amazing how differing guns like to be loaded differently.
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Thanks Britt. I sure miss being able to do that !!!!!

 

[Britsmoothy]

How do you tell that they are local? Different accent for out of towers?
Lol

Lol. There is a busy flight line usually, like a busy air liner route but that's not happening yet. More maize has been planted and I'm not sure what has been sown on neighboring farms. It all changes from year to year. Some years it is very busy, some it's just the residential birds.
Don't matter, I don't want to shoot hundreds of them.
Thanks y'all.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Looks like pot pie time.

 

[hanshi]

Hmmm...I'm more interested in the barley than the pigeons. Barley makes a fine thirst quencher in the right hands.

 

[troy2000]

Hmmm...I'm more interested in the barley than the pigeons. Barley makes a fine thirst quencher in the right hands.

Washing down pigeon pie with a good brew sounds like the best of both worlds...

 

[Britsmoothy]

My woodpigeon meatloaf goes great with a good beer or crisp lager that's for certain

 

[Feltwad]

A good day on laid barley is when the ground is covered in white feathers .
Feltwad

 

[Britsmoothy]

A good day on laid barley is when the ground is covered in white feathers .
Feltwad

I no longer have an outlet for many shot birds feltwad. My gamekeeper closed years ago. If I do get many coming in I offer them to a friend that freezes them in many freezers until he has enough to make the long trip to a game dealer viable.
He is am avid pigeon shooter. I got him on an arable farm near me a few years ago. He had 110 pigeons a couple of weeks ago on there, they were feeding on chick weed.
That is why I prefer crow shooting now, I don't have to have a conscience with them things.

 

[kemart17]

My woodpigeon meatloaf goes great with a good beer or crisp lager that's for certain

pigeon meatloaf??? never heard that 1 before...hmmmmm, wonder how would work with dove? . thanks for the idea

 

[R.J.Bruce]

My woodpigeon meatloaf goes great with a good beer or crisp lager that's for certain

Will you share the recipe?

 

[Britsmoothy]

Will you share the recipe?

To six breast pieces add.
Half a small onion.
One slice of bread.
Splash of olive oil ( keeps the fouling soft).
Fair amount of black pepper.
Whizz it up in a food blender.
Add to a small oven proof dish.
40mins baking time.
Easy peasy.

 

[appalichian hunter]

Sounds good brit, might give it a go with some phesant and quail this coming Feburary from our annual bird hunt.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Todays wee session.

 

[R.J.Bruce]

To six breast pieces add.
Half a small onion.
One slice of bread.
Splash of olive oil ( keeps the fouling soft).
Fair amount of black pepper.
Whizz it up in a food blender.
Add to a small oven proof dish.
40mins baking time.
Easy peasy.

Thank you

 

[troy2000]

Pigeons are a curse, at the natural gas compressor station where I worked for the last twenty+ years. If not checked, they'll cover the floors and the equipment in deep layers of crap. And the crap can carry a deadly fungus that's killed at least one person I know of...

A couple of years ago I carried a .22 cal., top-break pellet gun into the #1 compressor building, and over the next three or four days carried twenty seven of the fat feathered rats out in plastic bags. All done very discreetly after regular business hours, of course. The next year there weren't nearly as many, because there wasn't a whole generation returning home to nest.

And yes, they were tasty. Think pigeons in gravy... They're just oversized doves, and out in the country they eat what the doves eat.