I was on a feral cat removal contract for a well known multinational shopping chain and after catching a very large and particularly vicious tom in one of our cages a “knowitall greenie” threw curry powder in my face which burned my eyes and he then attempted to free the feral which promptly bit and scarred him for life😂😂😂
@m91473 feral cats mate. The carry diseases. Dangerous to humans and pets. They also spread diseases on to farm animals. No will shoot them for no reason
Done some pigeon clearance in a couple of local town centers a few years back, had to book in with plod before we started at midnight.Had some youths sitting on walls started giving us grief but we ignored them. Then one shouts out 'Here comes a copper, now your for it'. We didn't leg it like they thought we would & plod just walked over to us & started talking, he asked us how many we had shot, we told him 72 & he said 'Well done' & walked off, you should of seen the kids faces!!! Finished at 3.30 am with 133 pigeons & some pissed off kids!.Checked the town later in the week & it hadn't even made a dent. Council now tries to limit the pigeons access to food.
Roy's my favourite presenter of all the British air gunning channels, very knowledgeable and comes across as an extremely nice guy. Anyone know how he injured his leg?
+Guy Wood, he may have been savaged by an enormous wood pigeon as a baby. I think a gang of foxes may also have stood around laughing at the poor unfortunate...they may have been encouraged to do so by an evil squirrel...a bad influence on any impressionable fox. Possibly unable to satisfy a woman, Roy slaughters innocent birds... who came to town to escape low powered, lame tubby wannabes.
^ That you see above (with the Pigeon Profile pic) is the dictionary definition of "But Hurt", commonly found on those with a soft spot for festering disease ridden creatures that defecate throughout the city, safe to assume that he probably votes the same way. Seriously though, those pigeons are a pest, there are valid reasons for their removal. It might be ok for you to cry out for their defense, but considering what those with small children living in the area might think of the mountains of shit those things are leaving on the ground, in playgrounds and the people themselves, your stance of mollycoddling those filthy things is untenable. Stop with the warm fuzzies and grow a pair.
my wife hates taking me to the city or town centre cos I complain about all the pigeons that need culling, she says its safer for everyone if i stay on the farm. this video could be my ticket to clean up the town.
@@davidacosta147 guess you never lived in New York City, just moved out 5 years ago after living there for 50 years in midtown Manhattan, so they are dirty
Can't believe they let you shoot in built up areas. I'm so surprised the fuzz didn't continually harass you. But yet the best way of culling the winged buggers is by rifle. They poop every dam where.
We had a pigeon problem in our town until some peregrine falcons set up housekeeping on the roof of one of the tallest buildings in town. Problem solved.
Roy ,I do some pigeon control here in Belfast warehouses, mealstores and a football stadium and get the same reaction from the public about being cruel. Great vid and good shooting mate. All the best
I'm surprised you didn't inform the police prior to starting your task. One phone call from a panicked shopper and your could of had armed response on your back! Also Roy, LED lights don't have filaments ! Just saying
My Grandfather use to be in pest control, and one job was in Preston (UK) to control the population. They used a poison feed to kill them, but the poison was too weak and they flew off only to rain down randomly on people and everywhere. This method is certain a better and more humane method to control the pests. Pigeon breeding numbers are silly.
Alphachloralose pure is what he used. The more they move about the more effective it is. They basically die from hypothermia. It’s used against mice too. But not that common nowadays as everything is S-GAR
Nice shooting Roy! I know for a fact if I tried to clean the pidgeons out where I live near bournemouth I'd be locked up!!! Im not sure if my Whisper X would really thin them out too much tbh lol!
Anyone thinking that killing other living beings is fun should go and look for another planet to live on where there is no other being than their damn selves.
tell Roy I am sure if there is a square beam on that night light its almost certainly a LED light.Great for lamp shy foxes and rabbits who are used to seeing conventional white light.
you apply for a job in pest control first, then gain your marksmanship certificates for urban use air rifles, I do pest control for london underground, its not shooting every night, you have rats,mice,cockroaches,midges,flies etc to contend with too
I love shooting and hunting but shooting in a location like this is a big no no for me just asking for trouble no matter how professional you are!! Few lads with hawks much safer!
I would imagine the area is owned by the supermarket, as long as you have specific method statements and risk assesments in place, which he probably had, you then simply inform the police before starting, with a start and approx finish time, your given a CAD number, and your good to go
This seems more like a reason to have fun and not really a pest control. If it's really a pest issue on windows and pipes at the mall then those are easily fixed by inserting barbs. That can also be done on the border of the roof tops so that the pigeons can't sit on the edge and crap down on people.
***** So you're saying is an money issue. A mall doesn't have the money to do such task. It's better to have pigeons and other birds shot at, dead, rot, bring diseases, and smell. Correct me if I'm wrong, the complaint is that birds are pooping in areas they don't want them to be at. To fix it, what I said to do, or as you say, find it cheaper by having people 24/7 sitting and shooting. If it's not 24/7 then the issue will remain and no resolved. Not sure how your theory works.
***** Do you know how fast pigeons can have more pigeons? It's like rats, they don't stop. While you shoot one another 100 grows. You will never be able to catch up on its birth rate. And trying to wipe out a species in the area even if possible isn't sensible to do. Plus they don't land anywhere, they usually go where food is easily accessible. Once the area is prepped with prongs and forks that they can't land they'll basically travel elsewhere like a public market - where it should have the same thing since I'm pretty sure you can't shoot anything there.
It is honestly both. As someone who has cleared pigeons for local companies in my area, I can tell you that they are destructive little buggers, and keeping their population in check, be it in the city or in the farmlands is a good thing. When you tend to see the destruction they do, it sorta becomes like shooting field mice in a barn, at first it started as a irritant, later it becomes a sport/target practice or way to make some quick and easy money. When companies pay you roughly $7.50 to $50 a day to clear them out, you tend to stop caring about the morals and realize you are there to do your job.
you could put barbs up (im a pest controller btw) but it can be expensive and not always as effective as youd think. plus by putting barbs up all that happens is the pigeons move somewhere else, your effectively passing on your pest problems to a neighbour which is wrong and unfair. I used to be a survival skills instructor years ago, pigeons are perfectly edible. I think people just need to get over the lies and myths about animals and they could easily be shot or trapped for food just like wood pigeons. a lot of other countries eat feral pigeons, why not us?
It’s fine to do this but imagine if your average man did this for food who was an expert hunter and an expert in shot placement and an expect in safety and whore a yellow vest just to look the part do you think he would be allowed to do it?, I don’t. Basically it’s ok if the government say it’s ok but for a man to do it to put food in his stomach would be a crime in some way and he would probably get arrested and fined. It’s a sad and fucked up world we live in.
