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I am more that happy to carry on shooting the marshes I already shoot in Norfolk and have no desire to shoot anywhere else. They hold all the available quarry species , and the habitats i love to shoot over. When I was a kid I did visit Scotland and good fun though it was , there is nothing like your own home grounds where you know what to expect , the habbits of your quarry and can plan for your for them. When on strange ground it takes time to learn where the fowl are and where they flight and by the time you have sorted that out its time to come home at the end of a weeks holiday. Of course you can hire a guide, but for me that takes all the fun out of fowling.

 

It would be great to visit the States or Iceland and see the wildfowl , but I would not want to take a gun with me. I have spent several summers and autums in the Arctic and it was great , watched the gathering of eastern greylags in Norway and it was magic seeing them comming south before the comming winter , like wise seeing the vast flocks of duck flighting across the Swedish Tundra lakes and though my companions did shoot a few for the camp ( I was working as a biologist at the time studying bird migration for the African - Eurasian bird ringing project at the time ) I never felt the need to join them with the gun. Though I must confess a stunning blond Swedish researcher by the name of Eider ( only I could find a girl with a ducks name ) took up most of my spare time. :whistling:

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I am more that happy to carry on shooting the marshes I already shoot in Norfolk and have no desire to shoot anywhere else. They hold all the available quarry species , and the habitats i love to shoot over. When I was a kid I did visit Scotland and good fun though it was , there is nothing like your own home grounds where you know what to expect , the habbits of your quarry and can plan for your for them. When on strange ground it takes time to learn where the fowl are and where they flight and by the time you have sorted that out its time to come home at the end of a weeks holiday. Of course you can hire a guide, but for me that takes all the fun out of fowling.

 

It would be great to visit the States or Iceland and see the wildfowl , but I would not want to take a gun with me. I have spent several summers and autums in the Arctic and it was great , watched the gathering of eastern greylags in Norway and it was magic seeing them comming south before the comming winter , like wise seeing the vast flocks of duck flighting across the Swedish Tundra lakes and though my companions did shoot a few for the camp ( I was working as a biologist at the time studying bird migration for the African - Eurasian bird ringing project at the time ) I never felt the need to join them with the gun. Though I must confess a stunning blond Swedish researcher by the name of Eider ( only I could find a girl with a ducks name ) took up most of my spare time. :whistling:

I bet you had Eider down answer2 :lol:

I am also happy shooting where I currently am , being fairly new to it I still have plenty to learn on my current patch , the wash is a huge area, I will be joining a second club so I have a bit more variance to my shooting because as you know even from one area of the wash to another the shooting can differ .

 

Quarry wise there are still plenty on my list of firsts to get.

 

I would like to have a go on those Norfolk grazing marshes marsh man and yourself frequent , hopefully if marsh mans invite still stands next season I will get around to that .

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I am quite happy with my local estuary and a quiet little bay near Elgin I frequent..lucky to live within an hour or so of many of the 'Hotspots' up here in scotland

 

I would quite like a trip to the wash one day, maybe next season!

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I am quite happy with my local estuary and a quiet little bay near Elgin I frequent..lucky to live within an hour or so of many of the 'Hotspots' up here in scotland

 

I would quite like a trip to the wash one day, maybe next season!

Think I know where you mean Aberfowl I'm up your way tomorrow for 2 days working at Baxters Shoot the wash myself if you do ever fancy it ?
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Think I know where you mean Aberfowl I'm up your way tomorrow for 2 days working at Baxters Shoot the wash myself if you do ever fancy it ?

 

Shoot it or get stuck in it :lol: anyway stop trying to poach customers , i am doing guided days next season , 50p a flight which includes the breakfast you have to pay for :lol:

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I would like to go to the states and see the big mallard migrations, maybe some shooting in the flooded timber aswell.

 

Planning on getting back to the Wash a few times next season, would love to tackle some of those high mallard and definately the Pinks.

 

Happy shooting the marshes I frequent but not wrong to have some wish to do something different now and again.

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I wouldn't mind a pop at the snow geese in the mid-west, although the thought of 4 or 5 other people shooting them at the same time doesn't appeal to me.

The problem is that I go all daft and dreamy when 10,000 pinks come near me, I would be reduced to jelly if 100,000 snow geese did the same.

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When we were young and had little idea what wild fowling was all about ,the holy grail areas were the Solway and the Wash , I went and had a look at part of the Solway when I was on holiday in Scotland and straight away I could see you needed a lot of local knowledge , or you would have to go with someone who had , on top of that, at the time we very rarely left our county of Norfolk , so with the distance and money being tight it quickly went off my wish list .

 

Next was the Wash , the first time I went up that way we were taking railway bridges down around Boston , and having a look round the area it was a similar landscape to ours , only on a vast scale compared to our estuary which was 5 miles long by around 3/4 mile wide. Every time you opened the Shooting Times you read about the legends like , Frank Harrison , Sid Wright and of course Mc Kenzie Thorpe so you came to think the fowl were lining up to be shot, but as we now know it isn't the case and never was , these people had years of experience in wildfowling, where as in comparison we never had a clue. If we had we would have known we had everything on the shooting list on our doorstep , but it was going to take time to put it all together before you started to put a duck or two in the bag , in fact it don't matter how long your fowling there is always something new to learn .

 

So , there are still a lot of my club marshes I haven't been on, and having nothing else left on the list I haven't shot I am more than happy to stay where I am and continue my apprenticeship on my doorstep.

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So , there are still a lot of my club marshes I haven't been on, and having nothing else left on the list I haven't shot I am more than happy to stay where I am and continue my apprenticeship on my doorstep.

 

That sounds a very contented statement :good:

 

I would say this - There are still a lot of my club marshes I haven't been on, I am more than happy to stay where I am and continue my apprenticeship :lol: :good:

 

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The question was just what would people like to do.

 

I doubt if I will go to the US to shoot Mallard due to the money and the fact I hate flying, but people can dream or have aspirations about doing something different.

 

Also insteresting to see how other countries go wildfowling.

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