WOW !! What memories you brought back to me. My first"job",that I made money with was catching pigeons in Dothan,Alabama .I sold these vto the local shoot club for 25 cents.We trapped them at the feed mills,the feeder plots and even on the roof of the old court house.Side bonus was I attended the shoots when my Mother did not know I was going.
Top gun was Stinkey Stenson,a somewhat shady characterbut a 12 year old boy's idol.Drove a big red convertable,always had a pretty girl on his arm and never worked.
Saw Stinkey win a truck one time by just one bird.Bird was hit but flew 20 feet out of the ring.I knew it was heart shot.Bird turned around and dropped dead in the center of the ring.Stinkey bought all a beer that evening(me too) at the billard palace(pool hall).
Wonder what ever happened to that guy..man he could shoot!!

I think every pigeon shoot has a Stinkey Stenson. One of the better shooters I ever came accross at the age of 17 was John. He was da bomb I mean he flew all over shooting, hung with the top end crowd and I wanted to be like him. Later on I stopped in this farm to see if I could get permission to trap, there he was a man I had looked up to, he was the care taker for John DeLorean's place. Lived in a small little shack on the grounds. He had nothing but a few belt buckles from some of the big shoots, a Perazzi, some pictures of he and Bob Brister at the world shoots.

He did how ever teach me all he knew about the game and the art of wing shooting. The stories he would tell me of who's who in the world of flyers. When John D got in trouble there were 2 brothers that let him stay at there place. He's old and I try to get out to see him once a month, if it's trapping season he'll ride along several times a week. One of the greatest lessons he taught me was pigeon shooters as a whole are a great bunch of guys, just don't let em in your house. LOL

It's becoming very clear to me that some people just have too much fun! This pigeon thing at the farm sounds like a great way to burn powder.

I wouldn't say it's all fun until you're in an elavator greasing the operator. Hell we bring up boxes of fiber and have to pay a vig of 20 per box, I want to bring down boxes of pigeons and it's 10 go figure.
Over the years it has given me the chance to fool with all sorts of loads, chokes, shot....

And get rid of PIGEONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Correct nomenclature for our training pigeons was "Ghetto Partridge" Accepable alternative - "Sky Carp"

Call em what you want I have seen some guys make a man's wages in shot, on the other hand I have seen guys loose it all in shot.