Good luck with the pigeon shooting. If you can get in the know pigeon shooting is often free. In fact I get angry telephone calls if I don't go! A lot of Farmers can loose money to pigeon damage and Farmers don't like loosing money. Docoying or evening roost shooting are the two main ways. Unrestricted pumps and semi autos are legal for pigeon but do require a firearms certificate. I sometimes take a pump but mainly use doubles; you rarely get more than two shots at pigeon anyway.
This is what came in to the decoys last week. A small herd of fallow deer. They got to within about tweny yards before sensing something was wrong. I was a bit slow at getting the camera out. Note the decoys in the foreground. I was shooting over oilseed rape. Lagopus.....
