Proper driven pheasant shooting.

Grizzly 45

foxer3640 wrote: »

Thats interesting what you say about the semi auto. On some of the driven shoots in the uk the use of a semi auto would be considered unsporting. Did anyone have a problem with you useing it? Heard of a couple of lads not allowed to shoot when they turned up with a semi...

No none at all.
Different country and mindset too I guess.No probs with semi high cap pumps or semi shotguns for hunting even large game.
They are well used to the Italians shooting over there as well with high cap semis as well.:)I just found it a lot handier than having to every 30 secs be stuffing twin tubes while good shots were departing and I'm looking around.I tried my cousind Bretta OU for the last two days.TBH I found I missed more with the OU than I did with the semi,as the chance of getting off the second shot is much quicker and I found I wasnt correcting for lead properly.

I've had this out alot of times with this sporting/unsporting malarkey of semis and I put a lot of this down to snobbery and traditionalism that belongs in another century [like the 19th].It is the man not the gun that pulls the trigger,if you dont hit that bird with the two shots,no worries in certain situations over there there will be another three breaking from cover within possibly 30 secs.In a situation where your shooting action is fast and furious,and you dont have Jeeves beside to hand you your loaded and cocked matched Purdey .You are going to miss good shots.I even shot over there with a loader,it speeded up the process alright,but I found this very archaic and awkward.You really do need to be a well oiled team of gun and loader.My cousin on one drive did try with the two OU s a loader and swoping the guns,and they were putting up a rate of fire that made me and the semi look slow.:eek:TBH what difference does it make wether two shots come out of one barrel or two shots out of seperate barrells?

foxer3640

I agree it is the man not the gun. A lad could be useing a 30 grand purdey and still be a gob****e.

Bananaman

I've gone on a few shooting weekends in Scotland - bit of foreshore, bit of walk up, bit of driven, bit of stalking, bit of drinkin, bit of eatin.

They are a great weekend - utterly unaffordable here - but doable there for the likes of me.

When shooting sporting clays I would regard the driven birds to be the easiest - many lads cant hit them at all - but driven pheasant is a different kettle of fish.

I have - often - seen a bird get up out of a walled.wood - come out of cover at the treetops, fly the length of the wood and glide away into the bog having passed over and had been fired at by four or five guns - just like the four more that came out while everyone was reloading.

Its not fish in a barrell - i suppose the first weekend on very well stocked land might make for huge bags - new birds - not wary of people or gunshot yet - but I'm usually on the third weekend - when the birds are a bit more scarce and wary - which makes for great shooting.

Your mans video is a great example of good shooting and of the gun he was using - sure its not everyones cup of tea - its all a bit tweed, plus fours, down the barbers with the spaniel to get the coat permed and off for afternoon tea with egbert - but its just an ad.

B'Man

Bananaman

I've gone on a few shooting weekends in Scotland - bit of foreshore, bit of walk up, bit of driven, bit of stalking, bit of drinkin, bit of eatin.

They are a great weekend - utterly unaffordable here - but doable there for the likes of me.

When shooting sporting clays I would regard the driven birds to be the easiest - many lads cant hit them at all - but driven pheasant is a different kettle of fish.

I have - often - seen a bird get up out of a walled.wood - come out of cover at the treetops, fly the length of the wood and glide away into the bog having passed over and had been fired at by four or five guns - just like the four more that came out while everyone was reloading.

Its not fish in a barrell - i suppose the first weekend on very well stocked land might make for huge bags - new birds - not wary of people or gunshot yet - but I'm usually on the third weekend - when the birds are a bit more scarce and wary - which makes for great shooting.

Your mans video is a great example of good shooting and of the gun he was using - sure its not everyones cup of tea - its all a bit tweed, plus fours, down the barbers with the spaniel to get the coat permed and off for afternoon tea with egbert - but its just an ad.

B'Man