The elusive left and right

Auldloon

By left and right i mean shooting two seperate game targets with two aimed shots without breaking the gun to reload.
I have had one on mallard and one on woodcock, both more than ten years ago when i could shoot a bit.
So who else has managed it and on what species? Extra points going for snipe!!!

Mellor

One of two on pigeon,
Haven't got a opportunity on anything else yet, due to being new enough to shooting and not many birds around at the moment. Finding one cock pheasant to tough, but too at the same time, not this year

sounder

i had 4 mallard 4 out of 4 but that it sorry

Auldloon

sounder wrote: »

i had 4 mallard 4 out of 4 but that it sorry

Are you saying 4 with 4 shots? If so thats some shooting. I had 3 from 1 shot but that was an accident:D

sounder

Chuileog wrote: »

Are you saying 4 with 4 shots? If so thats some shooting. I had 3 from 1 shot but that was an accident:D

ya 4 out of 4 often had 3 out 4 and have 0 out of 4 .i shoot alots of clays i was on the clare team for a few years so i know how to handle a gun and different targets in the air

meathstevie

My first ever double on snipe last wednesday afternoon...Needless to say I felt like a 6 year old on Christmas morning

Auldloon

Have you been on the clare team in the last 3 or 4 years? One of my best mates and shooting buddy has you might know him. Im from clare myself but been living abroad good few years now. Home next friday for few days shooting:) Having looked at your photos i think i could maybe guess your area, im from between ennis and kilrush myself. Good woodcock country;)

Auldloon

meathstevie wrote: »

My first ever double on snipe last wednesday afternoon...Needless to say I felt like a 6 year old on Christmas morning

Superb well done. Gotta be the ultimate that.

sounder

Chuileog wrote: »

Have you been on the clare team in the last 3 or 4 years? One of my best mates and shooting buddy has you might know him. Im from clare myself but been living abroad good few years now. Home next friday for few days shooting:) Having looked at your photos i think i could maybe guess your area, im from between ennis and kilrush myself. Good woodcock country;)

ya ur right out at the shore lahinch side

sounder

meathstevie wrote: »

My first ever double on snipe last wednesday afternoon...Needless to say I felt like a 6 year old on Christmas morning

thats great shooting mate well done

J.R.

Often got the double with duck, a few times three, - got it once with pheasants and once with foxes ( not game I know, but was delighted, it was definitely the best shooting I ever pulled off)

Have tried for years to get it with snipe & woodcock but no such luck!

3greenrizla's

got it two years ago last sunday of the season, have got teal and mallard and got a brace of wigeon with one shot beore but that was just luck, and looks good stuffed. would be good to hear what numbers and kind of game is around in other areas.

Double Barrel

Chuileog,

The most memorable, a right -and-left shooting teal in a following 35 mile an hour gale on the callows. See the bird, shoot the bird. Pure magic.

Also high in the "rush" factor are R&L's on snipe and woodcock. Doubles on covey rises shooting grouse years ago were not unusual. Seems to me double's with pigeons,duck and geese are more common as are R&L's at pheasant on the opening day. I will say this, anytime one shoots a double under field conditions, "you are on your game".

Shooting a true Right & Left a gun must not be lowered between shots.

3greenrizla's

less of a chance of two ground birds rising within range at the same time as to a flock of ducks and pigeon. when shooting crows at roosting time its commom to knock more than one with a shot.

Auldloon

Double Barrel wrote: »

Chuileog,

The most memorable, a right -and-left shooting teal in a following 35 mile an hour gale on the callows. See the bird, shoot the bird. Pure magic.

Also high in the "rush" factor are R&L's on snipe and woodcock. Doubles on covey rises shooting grouse years ago were not unusual. Seems to me double's with pigeons,duck and geese are more common as are R&L's at pheasant on the opening day. I will say this, anytime one shoots a double under field conditions, "you are on your game".

Shooting a true Right & Left a gun must not be lowered between shots.

I can imagine it would be common enough on grouse alright given the way they flush straight out. Teal in that wind you describe sound like screamers

Chopperdog 2

A right and left on any species is very warming.

I have had quite a few on high pheasant at various shoots.

The most memorable to me was a right and left of teal and woodcock.

On a roost shoot for pigeon one very windy evening last year i had five dead in the air, as in 5 birds shot before the first one hit the ground.

That was one well worth celebrating !!

Hezz700

I've had a triple on magpies once:) i alway think its an achievement to outsmart those little twotone feckers. I spent 20mins sneaking up along the hedge to the bush were i heard their racket. i got within 30ish yards before the cackling suddenly changed from their normal chatter to a warning call. the 3 of them burst out of the top of the briars on the opposite side to me quartering away to the left. i dropped to me knees so i could get a clear shot under the trees i was hiding under. I fired 3 times and down they came. sometime it all comes togeather in a nano second, the gun is correctly mounted, the safety is flicked off, your body is facing the right direction, you've decided its safe to shoot and its all over just like that. muscle memory and experience is what decides the ammount of lead and holdover/under required.
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And on pigeons quite a few times.
I got a couple of pairs of crows(while decoying pigeons) and same with Mallard.

I been trying for years to get a right and left on Snipe but its alway eluded me.Someday maybe.:o