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  3. Woodcock Shooting Ireland

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    Nice shooting again Ollie. I haven't seen a woodcock this season yet.

     

    I've said it before but that is a lovely place you have there.

    Cheers al.

     

    Weather hasn't been great for the woodcock yet. We seem to get a lot more during hard frosty weather as they make their way to the low ground from the mountains & forestrys.

  4. Woodcock Shooting Ireland

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    Some good eating there Ollie ... one of my favourites.

     

    Woodcock can ghost through the trees in real life, let alone on a camera, so I reckon you did a great job to capture the footage you did.

     

    Loved it when you found the one you'd thought was in the river ... no-one likes losing a bird, especially a prize like a Woodcock, so no wonder you were chuffed!

    Yeah they are tasty, especially the little legs on them.

     

    I was chuffed with my old spaniel when she found that, I hate losing any birds especially woodcock.

     

    Thanks for watching.

    Some nice looking Woodcock country there ollie' not dis-similar to some parts round my way. Good shooting :good:

    Thanks for watching fella. A few years ago this ground would have produced double the amount of woodcock, most of the cover have unfortunately been tore out with diggers.

  6. Woodcock Shooting Ireland

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    Hi All,

     

    I was off work all last week, always take a week off at the start of December to get a bit of woodcock shooting done. Unfortunately, the temperamental Irish weather meant I didn't get out as much as I would like; however, I did get out 3 days and I managed to capture some footage from my outings.

     

    Day 1: Was a little late starting on this day as the weather was very poor in the morning but I had a good idea it was going to dry up in the afternoon. In total I flushed 8 woodcock on this day (including 3 from one whin bush!!!), but I only got a shot at 3 and I bagged them all. It was very windy so it made for testing shooting, bird 3 seemed like it had been shot out of a cannon it was going so quick!!! My cocker spaniel Dinky worked very well this day.

     

    Day 2: Dinky got a rest this day (don't like working a dog 2 days on the trot), so my Springer Spaniel Dawn joined us. The unpredictable Irish weather continued with bright sunshine the order of the day. Only flushed 4 birds with 1 offering a shot & being added to the bag.

     

    Day 3: Was steady rain all day and myself & Dinky got soaked!!! Only 1 woodcock again this day.

     

    Anyway I hope you all like the video. Sorry about all the slow-mo's, but I think it is sometimes difficult to make out woodcock in the video, so hopefully they are easier to spot on slow-mo.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kezyaQxk_k

     

    Please don't forget to like my video and subscribe to my channel for more videos in the future:

     

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdXL__oYvbmKo0Ccm-vWRfw

  9. First roost shoot of the 2015 winter

    in Sporting Shooting Videos

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    My position was carefully chosen. I have been roost shooting successfully for about 40 years now. The video only shows 9 minutes, whereas we were there for about 2.5 hours.I can assure you the pigeons were coming from all different directions during the course of that time. If I would have moved forward or to the right I would have been in full view of them, and they would have veered away well before coming in range. It seems like people are criticising my methods. Well tell that to the pigeons, there was a lot more down than you can see in the video. You cannot see the whole picture and

    judge a situation from a square window looking out.

    Nothing wrong with the video. Keep them coming!!!

  22. Pheasant shooting 21st November

    in Sporting Shooting Videos

    Posted · Edited by ollie

    Here is my latest video from our small syndicate shoot last Saturday.

     

    With overnight snow in the hills we were hoping for a good day & perhaps a couple of woodcock. However, it turned out very wet which ruined the shooting & also some of the camera work.

     

    We ended up getting 6 pheasants, 1 woodcock & 1 rabbit. I was happy with my return of 2 pheasants for 2 shots, but the bag woulda been bigger only for some terrible shooting from the other lads 😜.

     

    Anyway here is the short video, hopefully the next day the weather is better and I can get better footage:

     

    http://youtu.be/wsR5YtrEU_s

     

    My channel:

     

    https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdXL__oYvbmKo0Ccm-vWRfw

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