adam f Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 I had a very kind invite to a friend's syndicate shoot on Sat. It was a fair way to travel but worth every minute. A real mixed day was in store and after getting out of bed at 2.15am :o we made the 3 hour drive to the shoot to get there for first light and a few hours Wild Fowling... a first for me, and boy was I excited! The weather was good for shooting ducks but not for us - horizontal rain and a near gale, but I didnt care, and was practically shaking as we sat in the hide watching the decoys sillouettes and watching the sky for the first few.... sadly all we managed to decoy was a load of shellduck and some coots - a brace of teal zoomed past at some point, but far to fast to even raise the gun! Anyway I LOVED it, and the boys further up the creek had a good hour with a few teal, widgeon and a nice fat canada. At 9.30 we started the shoot which was a nice friendly relaxed, walked up / stood day. I was informed we might see a few Woodcock which I was pretty excited about as Ive never even seem one - 5 mins in and one is flushed by my mates springer - Awesome! That made my day... until a few mins later another flushed and I bought it down with the 2nd barrell!! I was over the moon - my first Woodcock! I also had another first on this drive which was my first Partridge. I was loving this! The rest of the day continued in a similar form - not masses of shooting but a great craic, and just great to be out. At the end of the day the bag was a modest 19 Parts (inc a few english) a handful of Phes, 3 woodcock and a bunny, plus the duck and geese from earlier. Although we had a long slog back home we were offered an hours roost shooting by the keeper as I hadnt had many shots and was the guest for the day - what a great offer, and boy was I glad I accepted! 3 of us shot from 3pm to 4pm, just and hour for just over 50 woodies! AMAZING shooting - we were in a small copse, I was deep in the middle with a clear flight passage out in front and tress to the right and left - I had birds in a constant stream for over an hour - great sporting shots, I was able to shhot them like tall driven birds. When stopped to allow them to get in to roost the copse filled within a 10 mins with litterly hundreds of birds... it was hard to stop shooting! A day I'll remember for ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
left & right Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Good bags mate well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookiemonsterandmerlin. Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Same for me yesterday I have never had such a vast number of birds committed to woods in a period of 25 mins I fired nearly a hundred rounds . Well done OTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_0787 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Nice write up mate. Far better than my 2 pigeons. I think we should give up on shooting over rape! Give me a text and we;ll go have a bash at charlie next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 top day that sounds like you enjoyed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomV Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 sounds like you had a great day well done on your first woodcock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Well done mate sounds like you would go again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blunderbuss Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Good write up, thanks for sharing. Sounds like a superb day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Brilliant Adam...excellent day by the sound of it..... Its Quality not Quantity that counts and its sounds as though its a quality day you have had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wboulter Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 good wright up sound`s like you had a good day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proTOM1 Posted January 9, 2011 Report Share Posted January 9, 2011 Nice write up sounds like you had a cracking day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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