What are the two blue ribbons tied to the mesh blind for. Do you eat those suckers, or do you do what I do with the dead and dying barn pigeons- use them for training my Lab Khartoum to retrieve with a soft mouth? Then they get dumped in the farmer's manure spreader- sort of a 'recycling move' one might say. I have had barn pigeons come into my plastic crow decoys at times, and along with the mourning (and afternoon and even evening) doves, there is no more challenging airborne feathered target than the pigeon with a good stiff breeze a blowin'. How do your Brit buddies feel about you using a plebian old Parker, a shotgun your Sir Hugh Bertie Campbell once referred to as a "crudely made weapon suitable only for farmers and ploughmen"?? Not a Boss or a Purdey, ey wot?? But dead birds in the bag are how the score should be kept, and it is the man behind the shotgun that counts. The best barn pigeon shooter I have ever known used a beat-up Ithaca LeFever Nitro Special, I have shot with him many times and it wasn't unusual for him to kill 45 birds from 2 boxes of shells (50 over here in The Colonies). I'd love to try flighting wood pigeons from a blind over decoys, I am sure you get a great variety of shots in a day's outing-- Cheerio!!
