Shooting guests from hell

[docholiday]

If there is urine in there you have a fistula and a problem

doc

[pavman]

To put alll your minds at rest pavman was not the culprit.... It could'nt possibly be him as;

 

A) Driven shooting is not free

 

He is too busy buying the contents of a local paper shop's sweet counter trying to get a glimpse of a tidy birds backside ....A particular backside I may add that I managed to see by going for the liquorice boot laces off the bottom shelf far left by mach 3 razors

 

 

and he has just ordered an Extrema II, may not impress Mrs P but I undrestand Abigale loves a rough shooting man as opposed to a driven man

[jasons gold]

Quite right, a good guest says "your bird" not "my bird" and makes sure that the guns around him get some shooting.

Its rude to take a quartering bird or one that would make a better shot for someone further down the line.

Its rude to shoot a low bird and blow a hole in it making it inedible.

Its good manners to ignore your neighbours misses and compliment their good shots.

At the end of the day, if you've shot one or two really good sporting birds, you've had a good day.

Killing everything that comes past without discrimination may say youre a good shot but it says you are not a sportsman

Shooting birds over the next peg is arrogant and rude.

Claiming birds that other pegs shot at the same time is a bit selfish and marks you down. Better to compliment the other chap.

Not acknowledging pricked birds, not knowing where they fell and leaving your peg before telling the pickers-up where they fell will earn you the undying scorn of the beaters and keeper as will sending them out to look for birds you missed and claimed you hit.

Letting a peg dog off before the horn or whistle sounds to mark the end of the drive and depriving the pickers up of the opportunity to exercise their dogs and skill, letting it roam out of control, not putting it on a lead between drives are all serious breaches of etiquette.

 

 

I dissagree with this point because some times there is a need to pick up birds before the end of the drive, as no one should let a bird or any animal suffer if it hasn't been killed cleanly and a picker up should always let the gun pick birds up if he so wishes before the picker up starts. Just remember it is their day

[beatingisbest]

'David was most put out as he said I drove so fast to the last drive it burst his colostomy bag'

 

That just takes the pi**!

Edited November 23, 2009 by beatingisbest

[pegleg31]

I dissagree with this point because some times there is a need to pick up birds before the end of the drive, as no one should let a bird or any animal suffer if it hasn't been killed cleanly and a picker up should always let the gun pick birds up if he so wishes before the picker up starts. Just remember it is their day

 

 

 

i agree with this,the gun has paid for the day and if he's got a dog with him it's only right that his dog should pick his bird's if he wishes it too.if i'm picking up i'll always stand behind people without dog's or if they have a dog i'll ask them before the drive if they would like to pick their own bird's.plus it's flipping frustrating when your trying to steady a peg dog and its sat there all nice and quite through the drive and then all the beaters dog's run through and pick all the game you've shot!!

[MM]

If there is urine in there you have a fistula and a problem

doc

 

 

you know Doc, you should have been a doctor. :lol:

[Bleeh]

I once took a guy who was suposed to be an experianced wildfowler out. At morning flight 200 pink footed geese came over us both 40 yards up with a pair only 10 yards up on my far side about 20 yards from me and 70 yards from him. You guessed it he shot at and claimed my two geese. Later i warned him that there were likely to be some mallard sheltering on a bend in the river. When we were still a hundred yards he ups and shoots a starling , disturbing 7 mallard just out of range.

 

On another morning we were both guests on a shoot. we were waiting for several hundred geese to flight of towards us. They were only sitting 150 yards away on their roost and had been feeding on a field behind us the day before. A small bunch of geese came back from behind us 100 yards up and he shoots at them, jumping the geese infront and they all flew off to the side of us.

 

A few weeks later he begged my spare gun off me as his had gone wrong. I lent him a 28 inch barreled Kestrel. It came back a 24 1\2 inch barreled kestrel. He had backed a tractor and trailer over the end of the barrel and taken a hacksaw to it cutting 3 1\2 inches off a squashed barrel and thought I would not notice.

 

Finally he got a day ticket to shoot on a Wash club marsh ( was not with him that day ) and proceded to walk up a large creek getting several teal and mallard. The only trouble the creek was well inside a RSPB reserve.

 

O one more thing , he lost his gundog one night and despite returning the next day could not find it. A local person found it and took it in though the guy who owned it did not hear about it for almost a year. Th then went around and asked for his dog back without giving the guy a thank you or offering to pay for the food it had eaten over the past year.

 

 

 

 

Well, Can I ask, why the hell did you keep hanging around with him?