ollie Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 I didn't get time to put this up at the weekend. We were on the syndicate for the final day at the season and trying our best to get the percentage up a bit. Well the day always starts with a small valley which always holds woodcock, usually two men walk it and whoever is left stands forward. Sure enough the valley yielded 4 woodcock. The next part of the shoot is on the outskirts and we haven't saw many birds on it this year, but I managed to bag a hen as soon as we walked in, this was quickly followed by another woodcock falling to my Beretta. As we got to the end of this beat I hit a hen, I thought I had only pricked her, however, she landed very quickly in very heavy cover so I took off in pursuit but as I got to where I thought she was I flushed a cock pheasant which my mate bagged; sure enough 20 yards on the hen I fired at was found stone dead. The next couple of areas proved unsuccessful apart from a grey crow falling again to the beretta . As we approached the main part of the shoot Dawn (my springer flushed 2 hens), as I had already shot 2 pheasants I let the first go forward and took the 2nd hen, this was now 4 in the bag and Dawn quickly retrieved it and returned to where she had flushed the last 2 and 2 more flushed but 1 was missed and the other escaped without a shot. I flushed another hen about 50 yards on and also shot another cock pheasant. Then my mate bagged a woodie. That was the end of the sport for the day, I had a particularly good day firing 6 shots and having 6 kills (4 pheasants, 1 woodcock & 1 grey crow). That's the end of another season and an enjoyable 1 it was. Below is the picture of the final bag (5 pheasants, 5 woodcock, 1 pigeon and 1 grey crow not in picture). Notice the woodcock in the very top left of the picture, it was the one I shot, I have never seen as big or as heavy a woodcock in my life, when we put it beside the pigeon it was more or less the same size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davecooper1 Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Good day out mate, nice mixed bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yickdaz Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 very good mixed bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
left & right Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Good shooting mate top bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmar fudd Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 well done mate very nice mixed bag there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 well done buddy nie bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie mac Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Good write up ollie,glad you had a good end to the season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooby -doo Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 good shooting , some wey to finish it off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomV Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 :good: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 Lovely mixed bag! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyboots Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garygreengrass Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Nice mixed bag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glensman Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 Nice shooting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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