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Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 05 9:02 pm Post subject:

moggins wrote:

Can you come and get the pair that are sitting on my fence every morning eyeing up my veggie patch then?

Hang on, let me check your picture!

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Posted: Tue Mar 29, 05 9:05 pm Post subject:
I remember from Army daze, one chap who could shoot a Woody on the wing, using a .22 LR!!

joker

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 6:57 am Post subject:

Mat S wrote:

I've been thinking of leaving a cage-type structure (5 sided box) propped up at one end by a stick tied to a bit of string which I hold - some distance away. Bit of grain in the cage and hello dinner! I'll get round to trying it one of these days...

Ive seen this tried and the pigeons just dont go under the cage wood pigeons are clever little sods some times youd be better off with an air rifle and a bird table now that does work

DarrenG

Joined: 26 Dec 2004
Posts: 110
Location: Lincolnshire Fens

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 7:50 am Post subject:

tahir wrote:

cab wrote:

Is it legal though?

That's a good question, if I ever end up buying some land I might buy an air rifle but definitely not a shotgun, how could I legally catch pigeons etc on my land?

Kill-germ sell pigeon traps, they've been around for donkeys years but I think you would only catch ferals in them and not woodies, so its one for you townies, and the enviromental health dept would probably pat you on the back for it for a change

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 9:18 am Post subject:

moggins wrote:

Can you come and get the pair that are sitting on my fence every morning eyeing up my veggie patch then?

Ditto, dirty great big buggers.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:07 am Post subject:

DarrenG wrote:

tahir wrote:

cab wrote:

Is it legal though?

That's a good question, if I ever end up buying some land I might buy an air rifle but definitely not a shotgun, how could I legally catch pigeons etc on my land?

I don't fancy eating the woodies in our garden due to the amount of stuff they seem to scavenge from peoples gardens. Same goes for tree rats. They tend to scoff fat balls, old bread, rubbish and all sorts of seeds with treatments etc.

I would if I had to but I'd prefer getting some from more wild places.

Cab, could you not track done someone who shoots them over farmland and arrange to collect some?

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:14 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

Cab, could you not track done someone who shoots them over farmland and arrange to collect some?

Maybe. But I don't see that as any better guarantee of safety than eating a suburban pigeon.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:22 am Post subject:
I was thinking more along the lines of ready killed birds. The question of what is safe and what I may think is safe would make a good topic.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:30 am Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

I was thinking more along the lines of ready killed birds. The question of what is safe and what I may think is safe would make a good topic.

Both good points.

I dunno. Might be someone local who has an excess of pigeons. It'd be nice.

A couple of mates of mine were threatened by some lampers last year, and in a roundabout way it was my fault. So there's got to be some excess vermin meat somewhere local

Mat S

Joined: 07 Nov 2004
Posts: 282
Location: Leicester

Posted: Wed Mar 30, 05 2:14 pm Post subject:

joker wrote:

Mat S wrote:

Ive seen this tried and the pigeons just dont go under the cage wood pigeons are clever little sods some times youd be better off with an air rifle and a bird table now that does work

Another great plan bites the dust.

Tahir wrote:

Hmm sounds a bit Wiley Coyote to me. Anyway is it legal?

Any reason why it shouldn't be? I'd pull their necks so no offensive weapons and they're vermin with no close season. I think with landowners say-so it'd be fine. If it worked that is!

leebu

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 418
Location: east yorkshire

Posted: Tue Apr 12, 05 4:39 pm Post subject:

I have had my best shooting in my back garden, several pigeons, a pheasant and almost had a duck last year. I tend to leave the collared doves though as they seem a bit scrawny and also seem to be good decoys- the wood pigeons watch them take the seed I've left out and then come down when they think it's safe. Unbeknownst to them I'm leaning out of my bedroom window doing my best Lee Harvey Oswald impression...

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 05 4:41 pm Post subject:
I hope you have your game licence.

leebu

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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Location: east yorkshire

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 4:22 pm Post subject:
Do I still need one if it is on my land? Honest mistake if I did. Tasty too.

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 4:26 pm Post subject:
Only for duck and pheasant, not for Woodies.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 05 4:33 pm Post subject:

leebu wrote:

Tasty too.

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