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We really struggled this season with the rain especially for the first 2 months. I don't bother with the gopro much when its wet because the quality is always poor with water beads on the lens. The numbers of woodcock were about the same as last year and the previous 15 years to that also. Never seems to change much although it seems to take less effort nowadays to put a few in the bag. Nothing beats them for me and I again await the November moon with great anticipation.

A few clips again from the last day I was out. A short video this time as I made a mess with some of the recording and it was unusable. Enjoy

Apologies Tony. Just recognised the boat.

Good wee clip Andy. Decent bag of birds.

Hi folks, I haven't been on here in ages. Got away from the forum and had almost forgot about it. The forum still seems as popular as ever and has plenty of good posts. I have been doing plenty of shooting this winter and had some great days at the pigeons at harvest time. I have recently made a clip of local woodcock shooting and thought I might share it here as a way of reintroducing myself. Hope you enjoy!

Congratulations, Im sure you are on a high since. You will never forget it. Well done.

Great video Ollie, thanks for taking the effort to produce and share. Lovely ground, and a nice driven woodcock that knocked your cam off.

Cheers supergoose, we are spoiled with some of the best woodcock shooting in the world here. Your quite right with regard to the right and left. I don't count it as such unless both birds are in the air at the same time. I don't know what the woodcock club rule is regarding that though. I would call this instance a double but not a R&L. I've been very fortunate to have had 5 R&L's in the last few years one of which was witnessed an got my place in the club. It's my hope to capture one on film soon.

Wildfowler, mine is a go pro 3 black. I'm using gopro studio for editing and it has a feature for creating smooth slow motion. Takes longer to process but makes better viewing.

Had a rather frustrating day last Saturday in terms of my own performance. I was missing a lot and even when I did hit them was only wounding birds. I was using the same setup as always so I guess my mind just was'nt focused. It all came good in the end though with a nice pair.

This is one of many places I shoot woodcock although admittedly one of my favourite. I only ever visit the same area a couple of times a season. We are very lucky in northern Ireland to have so much access to free shooting. I could shoot everyday of the season without covering the same ground twice. I was out today a while and had 8 woodcock. I shot terribly though and should have had a couple more. Had to second barrel a lot of them. I suppose you just get off days. I wore my gopro most of the time today so will try putting another video together tomorrow.

My preferred woodcock shell is eley olympic trap 28gm 7 1/2. That day I was using 32gm 7s as it will cover any game I'm likely to meet including pheasant rabbit etc.

Thanks guys, just getting onto the camera and settings,editing etc so hopefully they get better as the season progresses. Underdog you would need more than thousands to persuade me to sell that dog. The relationship I have with the dog i one of those things that money cant buy. She just seems to know what you want her to do. She is just over 4 so should only get better with time. A few people have mentioned foxes after watching this. I have never flushed a fox her with the dogs although we did shoot some at night with lamp and rifle.

Gopro hero 3.

Let me know how to do that, GRR