Dairy Farm Hunt

[Jim81]

I have left my blind up for two days and the birds still seem as nervous as before. I got a few Starlings and a few collared doves, but I have seen the feed piles full of birds. A couple of pictures of what I see out of the blind. I do wear a black face covering.

After this apparent fail I sat in my truck about the same distance from the feed and the birds came pretty much right in. My conclusion. My truck is just or more effective of a blind than the blind is. Go figure!!

I was using the bog death grip tripod. I never clamped the gun into the jaws. PCPs seem to have a different shape than powder burners and it's pretty hard to get a solid grip. However the tripod is so strong and steady I think of it like a bipod used off a bench. I was sitting in a chair and put the gun up and rested it on the tripod. You can see the Leyla 2 resting there. I hold the stock into my shoulder much as you would a bipod off a bench. Just a guess but I felt it was only about 10% less stable of a sight picture than using a bipod normally of a bench.

The tripod is heavy. You wouldn't want to have to carry it to far. It is not as easy to adjust the heighth like the Shockey tripod.

 

[badammo]

The truck is probably a normal sight, where the blind is something new. If you left it a couple weeks it would be normal. That's hard to do on a working farm.

 

[wyshadow]

I always wanted to try setting up a blind at the dairy farms but I don't think I will try this after reading your post.

 

[NMshooter]

Hunter Vermin from Ireland has a video where he sets up out of his minivan on a farm shoot. I think he did quite well.

 

[lenweber2]

Love pesting the dairy farms. BUT the smell in the rig. Think it's the dust in the air. I just keep driving around if I get bored at one spot, your just part of the operation that way. To get the smell out I use Febreze and spray in the air or heating vent intake and vacuum the rig out. Still takes a bit of time.

 

[Jim81]

Taalk about the smell. I brough my blind home as it got wet from some rain. I set it up inside my garage. Dang Martha!! It smelled just like the dairy farm. I have to go put it outside in the sun for awhile.

Hey! I bought a cheap gillie suit. Haven't tried it yet but just trying get one up on the Starlings and Collared Doves. Maybe if I just sat real still across from the feed bins the birds would think I was a bush..lol