Welcome to Team Wild's Varminators. This week, we're over in North Staffordshire trying to
put a dent in a huge pigeon population that's causing problems on a local farm.
Our varminator this week is Nathan Whitehead. On a beautiful afternoon and aided by Moss,
his faithful springer spaniel, Nathan sets out some pigeon decoys.
Gets together a bunch of shotgun cartridges. And heads out into the crops to set up.
This farm has been overrun with pigeons in the last few weeks, and they've been causing
plenty of damage to the crops and made a mess of the farm buildings. So Nathan's been asked
to lend a hand to thin out the numbers.
I've been called out. Got a phone call yesterday afternoon to say that they're getting a lot
of pigeons in this field of barley. There's a few flat patches in it. I've come to have
a go at them.
Settled down in between the crops, Nathan stays low and watches the horizon.
A bird heads in behind him but doesn't come quite close enough.
He stays vigilant.
Then one comes flying in from the right and Nathan is on it.
One down.
He locks and loads, ready to go again.
It's been just a few minutes but Nathan is clearly having fun.
That stirred them up a little bit.
It's done dead in the air.
Four shots quick and barely touched the gun, it's that hot.
Yeah, yeehaa jester's dead.
Let's go find a couple of them to put on the spinner.
This is now, I've had it for eighteen months. It's a Miroku MK38 Sporter, grade five teague.
32 inch barrels, and it's my best one. I brought a little 410 with us, just in case it got
a bit wild, we could have a bit of fun, but we'll keep slotting them with this for now.
It does the trick.
I used to use a Browning, semi-automatic, but no matter how careful you are, especially
when you're in this sort of situation your cartridges are everywhere, then you get phone
calls. Go on there, a left and a right.
You get phone calls to say that you left empty cartridge shells everywhere. So I got rid
of that now so I can keep everything clean and tidy and you don't get any complaints.
It's hard enough to get shooting as it is without, once you've got it, losing it, leaving
the place untidy when you've finished. So, try my best to pick them all up, keep it clean.
After a good few hours of pigeon busting action, Nathan and Moss comb the crops to retrieve
the carcasses. However, the crops are so thick and the pigeons have crash-landed over such
a wide area, it's not going to be easy to round them all up.
Alright, we've come to the end and we've not done too bad, we've done about three and a
half hours, shot a modest bag about thirty. We've picked a few, but I don't want to walk
through the crop and trample anymore than the pigeons were. So yeah, I think the farm
will be happy and job well done. Doing alright.
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