mitch66 Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 2 rabbits with 1 shot, didnt realise there was another just along side the first one,I was laid in long grass, full choke around 40 yds 30g 6 shot I put another shot in as soon as i stood up just to make sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 had four rabbits with 3 shots from a 12g semi before, i'd also like to say i cleared half of my local pub after a heavy night on the curry/guiness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 I'm intruiged, the other bird obviously wasn't a pigeon. What was it? It was a Kestrel :( I really can't desribe the feeling that came over me when it landed by my feet. For a good couple of weeks I actually thought about giving up shooting. After I'd thought about it for a while I decided it was a one in a million shot. I doubt anything like that will ever happen again, well I certianly hope not. Being smaller I recon it was just behind the Pigeon and completely hidden. I had no idea it was there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishermanpaddy Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 Iv had 2 rabbits with a Webley Patriot, altho no-one ever believed me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 (edited) Ive had several pairs whilst pigeon decoying, a pair of mallard leaving the fed pond and a crossing pair of driven pheasants. Non of the shots was intended to shoot more than one target at a time it was just a fluke that they turned out like that, but the most unusual was six rabbits to one shot. It was a summers evening and I was out armed with the shotgun to thin the rabbits along a hedgerow. I crept along the hedge and looked around the corner to see that were three sitting out. I roughly lined them up and fired. When I picked them up the dog kept bring me another one. I think that there were two sitting out that I hadnt seen. One had his head sticking out of the hole another was in a divot that had longer grass growing around it and I think that the sixth one must have come out of the hedge at the moment of firing. Rabbit thinning achieved. Dog food collected and a weighty load to carry back to the buildings. Edited November 12, 2011 by fortune Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anser2 Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 I have had 2 pigeons several times with one shot and when I was a kid three sitting in a line along a branch. My older brother was in charge of my cartridge supply and would give me 2 shells for every bird I produced for the kitchen. So 3 pigeons for one shot would earn me 6 shells. I have had two pinks with one shot several times and once two canadas. As for duck I have had two mallard , or teal or wigeon , or pintail more times than I can remember ( its happens several times most seasons ) and on about 10 occasions 3 wigeon or teal with a single shot. A couple of times with wigeon and teal three with one shot and two with the second barrel. Biggest shot was 17 starlings with one Eley Impax no 6. They were causing problems nesting in holiday chalet roofs. Once I shot a running rabbit and when picking it up found a dead pheasant. It had been sitting behind it in a clump of grass. O and shot two partridges with one shot a few times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddy Funker Posted November 12, 2011 Report Share Posted November 12, 2011 It was a Kestrel :( I really can't desribe the feeling that came over me when it landed by my feet. For a good couple of weeks I actually thought about giving up shooting. After I'd thought about it for a while I decided it was a one in a million shot. I doubt anything like that will ever happen again, well I certianly hope not. Being smaller I recon it was just behind the Pigeon and completely hidden. I had no idea it was there. Shame, Thanks for the reply though. Like you said one in a million and totally forgivable. The way you felt about the shot shows you're a responsible hunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kes Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 Norman Mursel in his book, 'Come Dawn come Dusk' retells a tale of shooting at pigeons in the winter of 63 and, if my memory serves, he accounted for 38 pigeons with a single shot. I think I've only ever shot two birds with one shot and its usually been at skeet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 Two rabbits with one shot and two Pheasant with one shot, never more than 2 with one shot. On a slightly different tack these two went down with 2 simultaneous counted in shots with my shooting partner on the day, we have done this on numerous occasions on rabbits, but this was the first time we tried it on deer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonwolf444 Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 had two simultanious rabbits from two shots with me and a friend "ill take the left you take the right" , but ive never managed more than one from one shot, however the same friend got two ferals with one .177 when we were in a cattle shed the first was a clean kill but the second was wounded but was quickly dispatched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 (edited) 2 partridges on 1 occasion and 2 crows on another Edited November 13, 2011 by Davyo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rapid12 Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 2 pheasants with one 12g cart and 2 rats with an old hw80.22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 2 mallard once when duck flighting. I more often fire two shots at a large number of teal and wonder how on earth I didn't hit something! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super sharp shooter Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 And two Tufted this season! Could not believe it when I saw them both drop after the first bang :blink: Forgot that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one shot drop Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 My sister inlaws father inlaw has had 3 rabbits with one shot on a couple of occasions it surprised me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodcock1 Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 My pb is 3 widgeon with 1st barrel and a mallard with second. Best Ive witnessed was flighting woodcock when a friend shot two woodcock with 1st shot and a third came about 20ft behind and he got it with the second barrel. It was some l&r. He went on to miss the next 2 single birds that came. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silver pigeon 3 Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 My best is 3 pigeons with 1 shot and i have also bagged 2 Teal with 1 shot too. Going back to the kestrel incident this nearly happened to me last year on 2 occasions, a Kestrel kept on following in pigeons as they came into the pattern luckily both times i spotted him before i pulled the trigger but it could easily have been different! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunderbird Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 OK, this is a bit weird but I once shot a clay pigeon and a real pigeon at the same time. It was at Southern Counties shooting ground on the foggiest day of the year in 2009 between Xmas and new year. It was a L-R high crosser and the bird was completely invisible. I hit the clay too. Was having a go on a mate's gun too, a Beretta semi auto. It was an odd experience to say the least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon123 Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 (edited) I've shot 2 rabbit's with one shot using the shotgun and shot a few 2 pigeons and crow's with 1 shot also :D Still waiting to get 2 foxes with 1 shot :lol: (Think i'll be waiting for a long time though) All of these scenarios feel very surprising as you dont expect it to happen, as you only expect to get the one you aimed for ;) Edited November 13, 2011 by Simon123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu nesling Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 4 rabbits with 1 shot with a 410!! they were all sitting together near some partridge sheds. quite a few double pigeons with 1 shot with the 12, all flying though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 (edited) I hit one pigeon with one shot few years back.Not odd in itself,but the cartridge was faulty and suffered from something called 'shotballing' which is when the shot fuses together from the propellant to one big lump of lead-ie a slug.The pigeon was almost blown to pieces,but i should have missed it! Edited November 13, 2011 by Imperfection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted November 13, 2011 Report Share Posted November 13, 2011 I once shot 5 big mullet with an air rifle with about 50 shots standing on a pedal boat , doesn't sound as impressive as shotgun pairs until you try it , still have nightmares remembering when I nearly fell in headfirst holding the gun :lol: . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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