Instagram star Dan Thor goes back to his roots, shooting feral pigeons around the farmyard with an air rifle. The gun is a step up from his old breakbarrel Weihrauch – it’s a fancy new Air Arms S510 fitted with a Hawke scope. The birds are proving tricky, and it’s difficult to see them clearly inside the barns, but with a bit of help from James’s drone Dan manages a decent bag, learns a few lessons along the way, and rediscovers the joy of pottering around the farmyard with an airgun just as his father did years ago.

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Why shoot feral pigeons?
Feral pigeons are a farmyard pest that eat livestock feeds and cause farmyard hygiene issues: they crap all over the place, spoiling feed and spreading disease. The environment departments all agree they can be shot. They are on the ‘general licences’ for shooting so that, mainly, airgunners can target them. We use airguns, because the pellets do not cause damage to farm buildings when we shoot them in barn rafters.