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Thanks for the info, seems the sport is getting lost somewhere along the line

I've never been to a one day paid game shoot, do you know how many birds they normally shoot?? I know they put loads up

Game shooting will not last very much longer as which ever way you argue it, birds are being breed for the sheer pleasure of hunting them out with dogs and then shooting them. On small shoots, we could have argued that all birds are being shot for the pot but now it’s being ****** up by corporate shoots where a load of townies come out to play for the day and choose how many hundreds of birds they fancy killing that day. I doubt very much if they even take a bird home. Now the corporate boys have latched onto “vermin” shooting to give the townies something to do out of season, you can buy a days pigeon shooting for around £ 60.00/gun, they supply the hides and decoys and will even drive you to your spot where if you can shoot straight (unlikely) you can blast away all day. This type of shooting will kill our sport and will lead to licensed vermin controllers. As a land owner, it is very tempting to advertise a bit of shooting to bring in some extra cash and now that more farmers are taking the one off payment and do not have to farm anything, I can see this only get worse. Oh Happy days

No 6 is spot on Mike, and may I had use felt wads and pick up your shells then you will always be welcomed back to try again

OK if your shooting light aircraft :thumbs:

Top idea!!

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This sport is becoming as high tech as fishing with a gadget for everything, peeking decoys, rotary magnets, we will soon have bleeper’s telling us when to pull the trigger! The magnets and peckers do work but it would be good to try them out beside a well field crafted conventional set up to see just how good they are and if they are worth the money. Anybody ever tried this?

I think that gas guns can be a shooters best friend. I have a small holding between 3 large fields which at this time of the year all have gas guns banging away. All I have to do is sit under the flight lines with a few decoys and a packet of fags and wait for the bang when they all change fields.