elmer fudd Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) A game shoot in the USA sorry did not see the instructions at the top , if you can change it for me please do so ,thanks Edited January 20, 2011 by elmer fudd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guest1957 Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Not Cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MITCHF Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Idiots Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dempy Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 I cant believe it! Only the Americans. I would like to see the faces at our shoot if that team turned up :o :o :o :o :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big simmo999 Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 typical yank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ireland's Finest! Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Now that is what you call a pheasant shoot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Meh, take the cages away, dress 'em up in tweeds and it's just like any other driven day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimfire4969 Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Meh, take the cages away, dress 'em up in tweeds and it's just like any other driven day. Your right, space them out give them a double not a pump and without the yank y'hars not a massive differance. Birds driven at them they shoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveo26 Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Meh, take the cages away, dress 'em up in tweeds and it's just like any other driven day. Iv never seen a 7 + 1 on a driven day Driven shooting is borderline for me but that takes the **** someone says "good shooting" after it takes 4-5 shots to down a bird not cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Their cartridge/kill ratio was appalling,but explains why they're using multishot guns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 (edited) Meh, take the cages away, dress 'em up in tweeds and it's just like any other driven day. I disagree. The two main points I'd like to make, is some of these websites for these shooting lodges will show you a picture of where their pheasants are reared; It'll be a nice clean, spacious cage with a fully grown cock bird looking happy in the middle. Now, apart from the pretty certain chance that this photo is staged - the cock birds in the cage are fully grown. Rather than putting them out slowly at 6 weeks old and spending thousands of man hours conserving the area to make sure it suits there needs as a wild bird (And as a by product, creating a well balanced habitat for myriad wild bird and plant species), these places chuck them out either the night before, or during the shoot; It has no ecological, or ethical backing - and exists purely to suit peoples bloodlust. I know the same could be said for a few, select big shoot (Certainly a few in Wales with lots of rearing cages - you know where I mean), But this is not the case, and the majority of British shoots follow and completely different set of rules than our cousins across the pond (The ones that post on 'Youtube' - I can't speak for an entire nation of shooters) Edited January 20, 2011 by Bleeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 I have been on driven shoots in the UK (OK no pump actions), with back gunners on a hot drive and there has been a lot more action than there was on that tape. I have also shot driven birds in the US and it was nothing like that video. Also, the birds were mostly raised from eggs with only a few poults bought in and they were kept out in release pens, exactly the same as most UK shoots. There are a few "safari" shoots in the US, where birds are released from pens in front of guns walking through cover (normally quail shooting), but these are not the norm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poontang Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Iv never seen a 7 + 1 on a driven day Driven shooting is borderline for me but that takes the **** someone says "good shooting" after it takes 4-5 shots to down a bird not cool At least with a 7+1 it would do away with the need for a loader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Duncan Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 Also, the birds were mostly raised from eggs I thought they all were raised from eggs ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 I thought they all were raised from eggs ? I meant as opposed to only buying in poults, or mature birds (which I suspect you knew ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Duncan Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 I meant as opposed to only buying in poults, or mature birds (which I suspect you knew ). Nowt gets past you Cranfield ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutchie the white hunter Posted January 20, 2011 Report Share Posted January 20, 2011 NOT GOOD AT ALL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0145wirbelwind Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 They think of it all across the pond, cup holder for gun cant be bad !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bignoel Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 might aswell be shooting clays from them butts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 They think of it all across the pond, cup holder for gun cant be bad !! Was that a cup holder of just an attachment to fix another idiot to as well as the one that was fixed to the trigger? I would not want to be a beater with trigger happy plonkers like that in the butts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkrout2007 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Gents I have hunted birds all my life . Let me assure you that is not the normal way phesants are hunted over here.This U tube **** gives all of us YANKS a bad reputation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rimfire4969 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Gents I have hunted birds all my life . Let me assure you that is not the normal way phesants are hunted over here.This U tube **** gives all of us YANKS a bad reputation I expect if you have a dig on U tube you can find some fairly nasty film of a british driven shoot with more shots than The good, bad and ugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southeastpete Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 I think the only clean kill was about 2.25 in... Makes me feel alot better about my shooting which i had thought wasnt up to much yet! I dont have a problem with high capacity guns, saves reloading, but needing more than 2 shots, you should go practice before you start trying to kill things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albertan_J Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 Seen worse examples over here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alycidon Posted January 23, 2011 Report Share Posted January 23, 2011 I have shot driven pheasants for over 40 years, I do about 15-18 days in an average season so I have seen all sorts of things both very good and I am afraid somewhat less than good. Among the worst are 'Killing' drives on a commercial shoots, birds over you in the thousand but nothing higher than a house, pegs 25 yards apart so that nothing gets through etc, novices love both those as they manage to connect but at 15 yards anything that is hit is inedible. I run a private shoot here where little is below 30 yards from the gun, last Tuesday most things were getting on for 50 yards. One thing I noticed straight away was that the lad nearest the camera was not wearing any hearing protection, a season shooting that volume of cartridges and he will be 50% deaf in his left ear and thats a lifetime of handicap. My overall view of the shoot was that if thats how they shoot things over there then fair enough, they were in safety cages, seemed reasonably safe with their gun handling and were very much enjoying themselves which at the end of the day is what the sport is all about, safety and enjoyment. Accuracy was not brilliant but I shot lorry loads of cartridges to no effect at their age, its only after a few decades of experience that you don't miss many. Mind you I think handling a pump action would be a bit of a handicap. We did not see where the birds were coming from, I expect they were released from cages either at the time or early that morning, its how the job is done over there, we release up to six months before and loose maybe 30% to preditation before we start to shoot them. I believe how we do things is better and so do the hundreds of US shots that come over each autumn/winter for a crack at our birds and greatly enhance local economies when they come. Not to my taste but an interesting insight none the less. A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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