Pigeon shooting
I love it, out in the fresh air of our great British countryside the good days and the bad days are equal in my opinion, on the good days you can get into some of the most testing shooting there is (especially windy ones), and the bad days well sit back in that freezing cold ditch or hide with a flask of tea and wonder at the beauty of mother nature, whilst in the corner of your mind thinking of that modern wonder of central heating blasting away at home.
Shotgun or Air Rifle
Well the choice is yours but me and my good friend Dave use both, depending on the day, season or just the mood were in.
You try stalking up on a Woody in winter with no cover to take a shot with an air rifle, very frustrating but it teaches you to improve your field craft, if only we could hover.
Magpies & Crows
The magpie what a beauty with all those iridescent colours, how can you not admire, but as with the crow I take every opportunity with shotgun or Air rifle to take him out, but easier said than done most of the time as I think they are the wiliest birds I know.
The Crows call can often be its own worst enemy, they just can’t resist seeing what all the fuss is about. So practice on that call and keep still, cos he’ll see ya as sure as eggs are eggs.
Air Rifles
I started playing about with air rifles when I was about nine years old, when somebody gave me a Diana model 16, little did I realize at the time but what a load of junk it was it had about as much power as a good sneeze, looking back that was just as well as we used to try and shot almost anything that could walk, crawl or fly including each other. In my twenties I eventually moved up to a Weihrauch HW80, this at the time was a Rolls Royce of air guns I couldn’t seem to miss a thing most of the time.
I then got into the art of gun tuning and found that air rifles are not boys toys but can be turned into serious tools of the trade for the pest controller or the art of mind and body control for the target shooter.
Then one day I was introduced to heaven in the form of a Daystate Huntsman, what a tool and I have to say since I got my Mk II, I will probably never return to a spring gun except for my 9 yr old son who is starting to enjoy the sport of air gunning, but only in my presence with strict control over safety.