By golly I didn’t know people still hunted pigeons!!! I never saw it done except by the method I grew up doing. It was called “cooning pigeons”. Yup, we ”cooned” pigeons at night in neighborhood barns. We’d go in barns after dark with flashlights and burlap bags and climb the beams. One kid would guard the peak hole and the rest of use would snatch pigeons with the light on them and stuff them in our bags. The peak guard would grab the ones that tried to fly out.
We’d take our bags of pigeons to my buddies shed and turn them loose. The next morning we’d stand outside the shed at the end where there was a peak hole we had covered My buddy would uncover the the hole and send his kid brother and sisters in the shed to chase the pigeons out the hole. We’d stand outside with single-shot .22’s and shoot the pigeons as the flew out the hole. Wing shooting pigeons with .22’s probably wasn’t the safest but it was cheaper than using 12ga’s!
BTW, by buddy and his brothers would get a brand new JC Higgins 12ga pump shotgun on their 10th birthdays!! We were country kids of the 1950’s!!!
We’d take our bags of pigeons to my buddies shed and turn them loose. The next morning we’d stand outside the shed at the end where there was a peak hole we had covered My buddy would uncover the the hole and send his kid brother and sisters in the shed to chase the pigeons out the hole. We’d stand outside with single-shot .22’s and shoot the pigeons as the flew out the hole. Wing shooting pigeons with .22’s probably wasn’t the safest but it was cheaper than using 12ga’s!
BTW, by buddy and his brothers would get a brand new JC Higgins 12ga pump shotgun on their 10th birthdays!! We were country kids of the 1950’s!!!
