lowlander Posted December 5, 2009 Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 (edited) i dont think ive ever done a write up of a days shooting so i thought i would, so here goes... i was up early this morning waiting for a mate to come pick me up for a full days shooting, he picked me up and we went on towards our first permission for a bit of duck shooting we met up with a couple more people there and positioned ourselves behind the hill surrounding the pond, then i got a text telling me that my mates were going to walk the pond up. i loaded up couple of hull solway magnums and waited, in no time at all there was a group of about 30 ducks coming towards me they got in range, so i aimed and took a shot, missed :o but managed to get it with my second , they carried on over my mates who managed to get another 2 . we all met up back at the cars and had a bit of breakfast, we then decided that we were going to try for some pheasant next, so off we went to the next farm. we went through the plan and were standing in position very soon afterwoods, the lads who flushed up the duck for us were beating again and so off they started through the wood. they had hardly started when a hen pheasant flew over one of the guns and was dropped with his first shot, a few moments later it was followed by a large cock bird which flew off just to my right, i took aim and let off a shot which brought it straight down , the rest of the drive was very quiet with only one more bird which was missed by all four guns . we got back to the cars at the end of the drive and the beaters got their guns, we decided we would go and walk some pheasants up instead. we started walking through a patch of rough ground, being careful to stay in a line, we had virtually finished when another cock bird flushed in front of us, i was next to one of the beaters and thought it only fair to let him have a go at it, he fired his first barrel and missed, but got it with his second after that we packed up and said goodbye to a couple of mates, the two of us who remained went over to yet another farm to try for some rabbits. we separated at the farm and started to walk over over the feilds, i heard a fair few shots coming from my mate at the other side of the farm, but had yet to see a rabbit myself. as i was looking for some rabbits i managed to flush another pheasant, but couldn't have a shot as it flew off in my mates direction. after a while i managed to flush a rabbit, it ran straight away from me, an easy shot i thought to myself as i aimed, then proceeded to miss with both barrels by now it was about 1:30 so we met back up at the car again (where i found out that all the shots i had heard from my mate had all missed!)and we set off to go back home, we all had a fantastic day with a final bag of 3 duck and 3 pheasant. i hope you've all had as much fun today as i have lowlander Edited December 5, 2009 by lowlander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted December 5, 2009 Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 Well done mate, good write up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babka3487 Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 You can hardly beat a day when a few of you just have a walk around and see what flushes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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