Packing my bags for NM to shoot pigeons

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Robert,always take your gun. Here's a hint. Use the Apple phone or tablet or just google the area but do it in satellite mode. You will then see how a dairy or a feedlot will stand out. Once you find one, on the Apple products you can just drop a pin and it will tell you the name and address. Go there and ask. My guns are usually in the car when I ask. 
 
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LBB. Looks like you have some very fine equipment and great places to hunt pigeons. I am quite surprised that you don't pick up the pigeons. Every place I hunt the LO always asked "what do you do with them." My answer is " we pick all of them up and haul them off." 
Pigeons are nothing more than "sky rats" and I don't like handling them but I would never leave dead animals on a man's place of business.
I wish a very successful hunt and look forward to some video. 
 
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Mark, picking up dead birds depends on where they fall, and where you're hunting. One of my permissions has about a dozen sparrow hawks (American kestrels) hanging around. They wait for me to knock down a pigeon so they can have a hot lunch. What amazes me the most, is how they just "show up" when I drive in, as if they know why I'm there!

At the grainery, I leave the dead where they fall, and the owner doesn't mind. As he says, the barn cats need to be fed too!
 
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When we hunt in the Phoenix area, there are hawks and buzzards there. We hunt one side then go to the other. When we finish, we start back on the other side again and by that time buzzards are already eating the birds we shot. Once like Alan said, we saw 3 large hawks working the pigeons we shot. Evidently the food chain works. The feedlots I hunt in TX work their cattle on horseback. When I tried to walk around the pens the cows spooked cause they weren't use to seeing people on foot. I went back to one Dairy and asked permission again and asked if he remembered us, he said yes and you didn't pick up the birds in the pens. Some owners don't want you in the pens. I told him if we shoot any in the pens we will pick them up. He said that works for him. So now picking up birds is a question I ask. You need to remember how much feed these birds consume and the diseases they can cause by crapping in the feed and then the cows eat that. Today is the last day of hunting. I want to get a couple pics of us with our guns to post. Yesterday the temp in my car said 31°. It was like that all day long. Didn't hurt the shooting though. 
 
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Just finished our last day of shooting and we shot 240 today. We got into some grackles and if you shoot one 20 more come flying over to see what is happening. You can quickly increase your tally that way. I shot a pigeon at 104 yds and one at 108. Found another dairy to hunt and I know there are more birds at it than the one we hunted today. We do have to pick up all birds that are shot in the pens though. 

Here is something I did not plan for. Before I left Texas the temp was in the 60's when I filled up my tanks. I topped both off at 4500 but when I arrive in Roswell the temp was in the 20's. That means my tanks now shows only 4000 and I had to eventually cascade my tanks in order to fill my guns. But today it warmed up and I gained some psi. Plan to post some video after I get home. 
 
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I want a handmade pellet pouch Chuck! That thing is nice. That was some nice shooting out West. Wait till you have to drag 7-10lb iguana away from people's houses. They decompose and have a powerful stench , most folks do not use airconditioning so the smell wafts into the house then you are their enemy. No hunting around here sir. Ha ha ha. See ya soon Chuck.
Robert
 
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David, here is my excuse. I’m terrible at editing video. I’m trying to use movie maker and I’m just not good. Secondly, I’m retiring the end of January after 40 1/2 years as a State Farm agent. My retirement party is this Friday. My wife wants me to build her some raised bed gardens. I could go on & on. Before I know it I’ll be leaving for Puerto Rico to shoot iguanas which is Feb 5th. My brother called from NC and asked me to put together a trip to Phoenix in March to shoot pigeons again. How can I get all this done? Maybe I’ll hire someone to build the raised beds cause I’ve got to SHOOT! 
 
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