Parkerised wood pigeons
 

:) Hi All
A good days shooting wood pigeons from a hide on clover over decoys
23 pigeons 2 crows plus a maggpie. With my mate Mick a real nice day out
and the old parker performed well:cool: as usual.

All the best Dave:bigbye:

Weldone David looks like you had a good day for time of year,

Steve

Thanks Steve.
Nice to get a reply from a Brit member were do you live may be we could meet up some
day ?
All the best Dave.

Good shooting David!

I've shot wood pigeon in Dorset, really a lot of fun, wish we had them here in the States.

Destry

Destry.
Was the passenger pigeon like a wood pigeon in size ect ? When did it die out and why and how ? Was it just shooting and if so did the old parker guns help in it's demise?
I wish you did have wood pigeon thay are good fun to shoot and you get every shot in the book a real sporting bird.
Thanks Dave.

Hi David I am down in deepest devon (Plymouth)

Stephen

Are these wood pigeons good to eat like doves?

Bill

It was mostly habitat loss more than shooting.

When the large hardwood timber tracts in the eastern US were cut they disappeared. They fed on mast for the most part, if there aren't any trees producing the nuts then millions of birds don't have anything to eat. They nested in colonies of millions, if the timber isn't there to nest in they don't nest. People want to say they were killed off, that's just not the case. There were too many, it wouldn't have been possible, habitat loss did them in.

They were smaller than the wood pigeon, but bigger than our mourning dove, though very similar in shape. I've seen some mounted examples over the years, even had a chance to buy one once.

I'm sure a lot of these old Parker hammer guns, particularly ones that were used for live pigeon shooting, have killed Passenger Pigeons.


Destry

Destry
Very interesting you learn some thing new ever day.
Thanks Dave.