Last time we had a great afternoon with 110 pigeons. You can see it in this video:
But we are back, and how? The Dutch kennel Upperclaws (breeder of Joe) was with me today with two more dogs. We hoped for another 100+ afternoon. And we sure get where we hoped for!
On 3,5 ha of barley was a lot of damage from pigeons. This Barley goes straight to the Heineken factory. So its an important job! “Hundreds of birds” said the farmer. He was not lying. With 110 pigeons in the bag in less then 3 hours it was a perfect but very hot (35 degrees celsius) afternoon.
I used a Browning A5 with gamebore super steel number 5 32grs. Iam hunting with my field trial labrador Joe. You always have to be careful with gundogs in barley or other weeds. I have hunted this Barley for 2 weeks and Joe had a couple of inflammations from Barley spikes between his toes and on his back. Its seriously dangerous stuff.
I used some flocked full body decoys and some FUD’s. But when I have shot some pigeons I take the plastic decoys away and only use the freshly shot pigeons.
I have filmed everything with a GoPro 5.
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