Mike's farm
knee high grass, wet
10 am
sunny 14 C
wind 0 to light breeze
I planted 2 homers in cages and brought 3 barn pigeons with me to shoot.
The first bird Liza pointed from 8-9 m, she stood there for a bit, I stepped between her and the bird, turned around to get sun at my back, not my eyes and thres barn pigeon in the air, it went up and I shot it. Liza marked it, went to investigate, picked it up after a bit of sniffing and came to me. I didn't take the bird from her, but walked with her. After a while I took the bird from her.
This went really well.
The second bird she pointed from about 25-30 m, I couldn't believe it, she didn't lock on the bird, she didn't know exactly where it was, but she knew it was there and she was standing, after a bit she relocated and pointed closer and exactly at the bird (may be 6-7 m). I let go another barn pigeon and fully intended to shoot it, but this one flew very low and Liza was chasing it, so I didn't risk a shot.
The pigeon made a circle as they often do and came back to me. Here I may have made a mistake, I am not sure yet. I shot at the pigeon twice and I missed :( Well, hopefully she didn't learn anything wrong from this. When Liza came back I released the bird in the cage, Liza pinned this one, the bird was a bit slow to take off and Liza was a bit too close. I get in trouble if those don't come back to the coop and pinning birds is not good either, so without much thinking I grabbed the bird from Liza and let it go, it flew away. This was definitely not good, she doesn't need to think she can catch them.
Then I went back to cage #1 which still had a bird in it, I don't recall now what I did there, but nothing remarkable.
I should have stopped after the first bird, quit while you're ahead.
knee high grass, wet
10 am
sunny 14 C
wind 0 to light breeze
I planted 2 homers in cages and brought 3 barn pigeons with me to shoot.
The first bird Liza pointed from 8-9 m, she stood there for a bit, I stepped between her and the bird, turned around to get sun at my back, not my eyes and thres barn pigeon in the air, it went up and I shot it. Liza marked it, went to investigate, picked it up after a bit of sniffing and came to me. I didn't take the bird from her, but walked with her. After a while I took the bird from her.
This went really well.
The second bird she pointed from about 25-30 m, I couldn't believe it, she didn't lock on the bird, she didn't know exactly where it was, but she knew it was there and she was standing, after a bit she relocated and pointed closer and exactly at the bird (may be 6-7 m). I let go another barn pigeon and fully intended to shoot it, but this one flew very low and Liza was chasing it, so I didn't risk a shot.
The pigeon made a circle as they often do and came back to me. Here I may have made a mistake, I am not sure yet. I shot at the pigeon twice and I missed :( Well, hopefully she didn't learn anything wrong from this. When Liza came back I released the bird in the cage, Liza pinned this one, the bird was a bit slow to take off and Liza was a bit too close. I get in trouble if those don't come back to the coop and pinning birds is not good either, so without much thinking I grabbed the bird from Liza and let it go, it flew away. This was definitely not good, she doesn't need to think she can catch them.
Then I went back to cage #1 which still had a bird in it, I don't recall now what I did there, but nothing remarkable.
I should have stopped after the first bird, quit while you're ahead.
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