Guest stevo Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 What a ******* joke haha I gave up half way through reading it. TBH I got bored with reading how good he looked and how much he spent looking that good. **** like this as always does us no good. I'm on my first shoot of the season this sat and I can quite assure you none of us have a fraction of this pair of idiots money. Where all working class. Game shooting along with hunting is not just for the eilite. Most have to work and save just to have one really good top class shoot per season. Rant over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nagantino Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Just thinking on the Glass of Wine thing........ everyone I know who shoots wouldn't dream of drinking while shooting. Not at clays and not while out game or pigeon shooting. Driven shoots are not my thing and I've never been asked to one or paid for a days Driven pheasant or grouse. But it sure looks fun, but......a bloody good lunch including Bloody Mary's to start followed by a decent Claret with nosh and finished with a bloody good port seem to be part of the day on very expensive corporate days. Has anyone watched The Shooting Party, a film starring James Mason? I think I'm just jealous. Has anyone experienced an organised shoot where the refreshment was liquid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crowdie2013 Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Fair play to Beckham- he's a hugely successful global icon to many and has wisely invested much of the trappings along the way. As a Scotsman I can honestly say I like the guy (former England captain and all!!) If we were as rich we'd no doubt be doing the same on our rich mates private estate, draped in the best of gear. It's good to see a high profile celebrity out on a shoot- we all get annoyed with the badger huggers like Brian May/packman etc spouting their mince so hopefully he had a good time and becomes as hooked as us all and promotes our sport Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Fair play to Beckham- he's a hugely successful global icon to many and has wisely invested much of the trappings along the way. As a Scotsman I can honestly say I like the guy (former England captain and all!!) If we were as rich we'd no doubt be doing the same on our rich mates private estate, draped in the best of gear. It's good to see a high profile celebrity out on a shoot- we all get annoyed with the badger huggers like Brian May/packman etc spouting their mince so hopefully he had a good time and becomes as hooked as us all and promotes our sport Ditto 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoot and be safe Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Has anyone experienced an organised shoot where the refreshment was liquid?Yes, although there was a pork pigeon offer if you wanted.I am not promoting excessive alcohol on a shoot day, but a little nip on the peg and a glass at lunch is all part of the day (a days shooting is not just about pulling the trigger). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 As beaters we would often have coffee laced with Baileys, but as a gun I sometimes have a wee nip of sloe gin or similar, but just the one. I'm not into drinking nowadays anyhow, but the odd nip of something nice is all part of the social activity of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennett Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 Just thinking on the Glass of Wine thing........ everyone I know who shoots wouldn't dream of drinking while shooting. Not at clays and not while out game or pigeon shooting. Driven shoots are not my thing and I've never been asked to one or paid for a days Driven pheasant or grouse. But it sure looks fun, but......a bloody good lunch including Bloody Mary's to start followed by a decent Claret with nosh and finished with a bloody good port seem to be part of the day on very expensive corporate days. Has anyone watched The Shooting Party, a film starring James Mason? I think I'm just jealous. Has anyone experienced an organised shoot where the refreshment was liquid?I think we had the same discussion last year, and I agree, going for a days decoying with a crate of Stella isn't the done thing. However I see a sloegasm at lunch on a driven day as part and parcel of the social side, and since you have probably eaten your weight in pork pie and cake, there is plenty to soak it up! By all means save the proper boozing until afterwards ( which makes for some interesting calls to taxi companies!) If I was Beckham or Guy Ritchie, the idiot with the camera would have had it inserted internally! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashman Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 Just thinking on the Glass of Wine thing........ everyone I know who shoots wouldn't dream of drinking while shooting. Not at clays and not while out game or pigeon shooting. Driven shoots are not my thing and I've never been asked to one or paid for a days Driven pheasant or grouse. But it sure looks fun, but......a bloody good lunch including Bloody Mary's to start followed by a decent Claret with nosh and finished with a bloody good port seem to be part of the day on very expensive corporate days. Has anyone watched The Shooting Party, a film starring James Mason? I think I'm just jealous. Has anyone experienced an organised shoot where the refreshment was liquid? Since driven shooting isn't your thing, it perhaps isn't useful promulgating an archaic stereotype? I also love "The Shooting Party," but it was based in Edwardian times and in any event, there wasn't that much drinking - except by the beaters and keeper in the pub the night before the big day. My experience of driven shooting is that Guns drink little during the day - I don't count a swig or two from a hip flask over the space of several drives as "drinking" - and most drive home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tx4cabbie Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 Tbh it's the drive home that's the concern for me. I'm a shooter, and won't ever condemn other types of shooting, as United we stand, divided we fall, but to jump into your landie after a day's shooting, with a few swigs of whiskey, a sloe gin or two, and a claret or so at lunch, and then hoon off down darkened country lanes with a shotgun or two in the boot? I get the "plenty of pork pie and lunch to soak it up" argument, but unless you fire up the breathalyser before you turn the key, how do you know that you're legal, and safe? The red top papers would love a story about the "privileged posh shooting toff who was done for drunk driving with a purdey in the boot, after a day spent murdering defenceless birds", and that's the positive outcome - mangling five kids in a fiat 500 is another possibility. I've not shot a driven day, and so have no idea about the sobering effect of walking several miles and eating half a beef rib joint and the trimmings, but surely if you can afford to knock out 500 quid on a day shooting, a cab or a travelodge aren't beyond reach? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seadog1408 Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 I don't think a travelodge is needed after a day's shooting and one nip of sloe gin....but each to their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panoma1 Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 I take the odd social nip before the off and at lunchtime, but do not have a parting shot! We are all responsible for our actions, and if your stupid enough to over do it....be prepared to pay the price! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 Tbh it's the drive home that's the concern for me. I'm a shooter, and won't ever condemn other types of shooting, as United we stand, divided we fall, but to jump into your landie after a day's shooting, with a few swigs of whiskey, a sloe gin or two, and a claret or so at lunch, and then hoon off down darkened country lanes with a shotgun or two in the boot? I get the "plenty of pork pie and lunch to soak it up" argument, but unless you fire up the breathalyser before you turn the key, how do you know that you're legal, and safe? The red top papers would love a story about the "privileged posh shooting toff who was done for drunk driving with a purdey in the boot, after a day spent murdering defenceless birds", and that's the positive outcome - mangling five kids in a fiat 500 is another possibility. I've not shot a driven day, and so have no idea about the sobering effect of walking several miles and eating half a beef rib joint and the trimmings, but surely if you can afford to knock out 500 quid on a day shooting, a cab or a travelodge aren't beyond reach? Then don't do it...simple! It has been going on for decades; how often do you hear of a shooting member breathalysed on the way home from a shoot? I can't say it hasn't happened, but I haven't heard of one around here in all the years I've been shooting, and this is BIG shooting country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshwarrior Posted October 15, 2016 Report Share Posted October 15, 2016 Sorry I may have a single small slow gin but that's me until after the shooting, if your not fit to drive your not fit to shoot. I then normally have my loader (aka wife) to drive me home after the pub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 I find having a few helps with my swing. Not too many of course, that tends to make me over swing and fall over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 I find having a few helps with my swing. Not too many of course, that tends to make me over swing and fall over. 👍😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted October 18, 2016 Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 port to start and choose peg. Maybe a half at lunch then home after the afternoon drives. Hardly slurring words and stumbling round half cut... How many people go to the pub each night have a few and drive home.. A car is as deadly as a gun.. More so in most circumstances... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 port to start and choose peg. Maybe a half at lunch then home after the afternoon drives. Hardly slurring words and stumbling round half cut... How many people go to the pub each night have a few and drive home.. A car is as deadly as a gun.. More so in most circumstances... Same here , cup of tea with breakfast , drop of damson gin with nibbles at elevenses and a half with lunch , this is over about 7 hours with food etc, all very enjoyable and sociable . The drive home was about 4 hours after lunch, surely it would be out of my system by then? Does anyone know the scientific answer ? I think it is about 1 hr per unit of alcohol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted October 26, 2016 Report Share Posted October 26, 2016 (edited) Charlie T spot on. Having said that don't look at my Landie because I would never get a job with y'alll :-) Still, I'm the customer. Had a day with Richard G on here at Scrivelsby Court, the Keeper and his wife were both dressed in the same tweeds and looked immaculate. The shoot room was the same, spotless and of course the sport was even better as a result. It is also good manners to turn up as a gun on such a day looking tidy and dressed appropriately. Edited October 26, 2016 by Walker570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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