aga man Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) don't really upset me but shooting live quarry from the hip etc. even if you are tom knapp is it right? Edited March 28, 2013 by aga man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Forgetting the rest of the video, there is some good part that shows the overtaking lead method he uses, with a barrel cam at this point at 4.29 onwards. Edited March 28, 2013 by Bleeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aga man Posted March 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Forgetting the rest of the video, there is some good part that shows the overtaking lead method he uses, with a barrel cam at this point at 4.29 onwards. yes bleeh. what can you say. tom knapp is a legend and very skilled. he mostly shoots clay targets but just goes to show the same techniques can be applied in the field. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalconFN Posted March 28, 2013 Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 Not my cup of Earl Gray, well not the shooting, just the people. To me their attitude is all wrong but each to their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 I would like to experience this kind of shooting once in a life time but these guys attitudes aren't to my liking either. Hip shooting is just plain silly with a living thing, and laughing straight afterwards is practically evil. The fact that he can hit them is not the point, it's the realisation that he has zero respect for them. I also notice there were no dogs or pickers up of any kind, there must be hundreds of injured birds everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 I've just watched the video. As for the argument/question - Sporting or not, I would say it was more vernim control rather than sporting! With regards to Tom Knapp - The way he was "exhibition shooting" at around 7:00 0nwards I do not believe there is any place for shooting live quarry (All be it vermin) in that manner on any shooting field - If you wnat to shoot like that save it for the clay grounds, and under CPSA rules if you shot like that in a competition you would get disqualified. If someone were to start shooting like that on any of my permissions I would ask them to immediately stop and shoot properly from the shoulder of leave the permission - But that's just my thoughts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 There appears to be zero respect for the quarry in this video. As someone has posted no dogs and no effort to find wounded birds. I am not anti-American but I have seen this sort of thing before. 'Hunters' whooping it up and high fiving after shots which clearly did not kill the quarry outright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyshooter Posted March 29, 2013 Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 I Fully agree with Frenchieboys Post and i might add frencieboy its about time you did some new video,s !!!!!!! atb brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted March 30, 2013 Report Share Posted March 30, 2013 love seeing him, he is a great shot,no matter how you shoot them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imissalot Posted March 30, 2013 Report Share Posted March 30, 2013 Don't like it my self ,wish I could hit from the shoulder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowler.250 Posted March 30, 2013 Report Share Posted March 30, 2013 The dove shooting wouldn't really interest me,(I think I'd get bored pretty quick). The "trick shooting" obviously has technique to it and seemed to work fine. No problem with that. The attitude in the video wasn't the best though. As mentioned,"whooping and laughing". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted March 31, 2013 Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 The trick shooting doesn't really bother me,the 'whooping anda hollerin' ' grates.They're American....says it all really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickB65 Posted April 4, 2013 Report Share Posted April 4, 2013 Those Doves are a pest species and it is a bit like a rat shoot. Yes the Yanks are a little OTT but that is who they are and how they are. Do they have respect, yes in their own way. Have I heard people whoop of hollah when they have shot well..... Yes and on some of the videos here.... the Yanks are just a little louder and brasher. Having shot with many Americans and worked with a good few do not take their brash attitude and loud whooping as disrespect - it is not. They just love their sport and when they do they like to make noise.... We on the othe rhand are a little more reserved but just as passionate. Exhibition shooting on live game is a no no. Leave it for the clay field. Lack of picking up the game.... I think you'll find they do pick them up at the end of te day when the guns have finished. The locals like to shoot while the Doves are their and then pick up later. Do not forget this is not the UK and the rules, local traditions are not the same. Not shot there before but have done similar in Norway and Greece and it is fenetic shooting - harder than you think as well as it is hard to focus on one bird when you have thirty in a small group to choose from..... Check out the prices as well...... $450 for the days shooting and $100 a night...... Think I'll stick to Pheasant shooting. Now watching Yanks shooting English pheasant at a traditional Berskhire shoot was fun.... seeing them all dressed up in brand new tweed was hillarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sx3 clay breaker Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 I would also like to experience this once but it's bloody expensive 7000 dollars a day without shells and hunting licence but I don't like him shooting from the hip then again there's a video where George dig weed shoots crows while on the phone but no one criticises him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildfowler.250 Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 George dig weed shoots crows while on the phone but no one criticises him That's not hard though. you can't exactly aim as well when the guns at your waist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shooting2 Posted April 7, 2013 Report Share Posted April 7, 2013 Points for each bird shot !!!!!! *** They see it as going to a clay ground, totally wrong attitude in my opinion. Each to there own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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