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Lloyd



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 05 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 05 9:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I remember from Army daze, one chap who could shoot a Woody on the wing, using a .22 LR!!

joker



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 7:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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?


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


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



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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



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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 05 2:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

joker wrote:
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


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



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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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PostPosted: Tue Apr 12, 05 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I hope you have your game licence.

leebu



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 05 4:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Do I still need one if it is on my land? Honest mistake if I did. Tasty too.

Lloyd



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 05 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Only for duck and pheasant, not for Woodies.

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 13, 05 4:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

leebu wrote:
Tasty too.



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