Catching pigeons

[JODakota]

Had a fun night with the wife out catching pigeons. Just want to give a shout out to corytdf for showing me the ropes. Will be back out tomorrow night. For those who have never done this, it is hilariously fun.

[bowhunterforever]

I bet that's fun in grain elevators and what are you catching them for?

[JODakota]

I bet that's fun in grain elevators and what are you catching them for?

I caught these under over passes. Should have had about ten more but they escaped lol. I use them for my two dogs and I have a new pup English setter that is getting her first bird introduction tomorrow. I will film it and post!

[Don Fischer]

Do yourself a big favor, take some of them and settler them for fly away birds. Carry maybe ten over to next spring and you'll never have to catch birds again. Ferals home from farther than you'd imagine. Underpass's are the hard place to catch them unless there is no light at all other than your flashlight. Dark barns are great!

[CoryTDF]

Some of the most fun a guy can have without a gun.

[James]

I used to catch piles of them in college to train my buddies GSP. We used a fishing net with a pool skimmer handle on viaducts and over passes.

Keep the dog in the car, make a drag with a dead one, and hide a dizzied one.  Good for the dog and your shooting.

good times

[Axle]

I remember an article in a hunting magazine around 30 years ago which talked about catching them in cages.
The cages had flap doors that the birds would push open to get to the grain inside. The large cages would be set on top of buildings. You wouldn't have a hard time finding a retailer to give you permission to do this and you could possibly charge them a little.

It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to make a cage for that. The author of that article sold the birds to folks who used the pigeons for training their dogs.

[CoryTDF]

I remember an article in a hunting magazine around 30 years ago which talked about catching them in cages.
The cages had flap doors that the birds would push open to get to the grain inside. The large cages would be set on top of buildings. You wouldn't have a hard time finding a retailer to give you permission to do this and you could possibly charge them a little.

It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to make a cage for that. The author of that article sold the birds to folks who used the pigeons for training their dogs.

I have cages too. They work but they are just not near as fun.

[JODakota]

I remember an article in a hunting magazine around 30 years ago which talked about catching them in cages.
The cages had flap doors that the birds would push open to get to the grain inside. The large cages would be set on top of buildings. You wouldn't have a hard time finding a retailer to give you permission to do this and you could possibly charge them a little.

It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to make a cage for that. The author of that article sold the birds to folks who used the pigeons for training their dogs.

I have cages too. They work but they are just not near as fun.

Exactly, I do it with nets because it's a blast and my wife gets a kick out of watching look like a crazy fool. Don, I have homed pigeons before, and it is great. I just had to catch a few for my new setter. Other than that it'll be wild birds here in the Dakotas in August.

[CoryTDF]

I remember an article in a hunting magazine around 30 years ago which talked about catching them in cages.
The cages had flap doors that the birds would push open to get to the grain inside. The large cages would be set on top of buildings. You wouldn't have a hard time finding a retailer to give you permission to do this and you could possibly charge them a little.

It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to make a cage for that. The author of that article sold the birds to folks who used the pigeons for training their dogs.

I have cages too. They work but they are just not near as fun.

Exactly, I do it with nets because it's a blast and my wife gets a kick out of watching look like a crazy fool. Don, I have homed pigeons before, and it is great. I just had to catch a few for my new setter. Other than that it'll be wild birds here in the Dakotas in August.

You need to get your mind right and just move back! August is real close to archery season and we cant have you missing that again.

[birddogdad]

build a couple coops for winter over, they will be self sustaining if you do! some pairs have 4 or 5 pairs of babies each year. if you can keep warm early, they will hatch kids feb/mar... but the babies will die if you don't keep warm...

[curtmdavis]

 Used to spend alot of time explaining to the local PD what we were up to doing this as kids. Cant blame em couple of young idiots under a bridge with a net and a flashlight.