Pykie Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Just finished reading the article in Fieldsports Magazine about Lord James Percy and his brother having a species day once a year to see how many different species they could shoot, fish or trap in a day. Anyone one done it? And how did you fare? I have managed 7 several times to my own Gun in a day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 I have never been in a team looking to shoot lots of species specifically but one day three of us shot roe deer, blue hares, rabbits, snipe, grouse, blackcock, ptarmigan, pigeon and we caught a trout. Perhaps not the largest species day but certainly an interesting one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykie Posted February 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Extremely memorial and unique day JDog. Any pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arley Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Shot 5 species on 1 drive last season Pheasant, Pigeon, Crow, Partridge and Woodcock. Only Crow and Woodcock I shot all season on that shoot. Have also shot 9 species on my own shoot in one day Pigeon, Mallard, Goose, Pheasant, Partridge, Squirrel, Rabbit, Jackdaw and Crow. This was about 15 years ago, missed a woodcock and also a snipe that day as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Extremely memorial and unique day JDog. Any pics? No photos sadly as it was in the days before mobile phones or even small cameras but the memories are indelibly printed on my brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJW Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 I shot goose, duck, pheasant, partridge and pigeon on my penultimate day of the season. I also missed a woodcock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motty Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 A group of us shot mallard, wigeon, teal, pochard, pintail, tufted, shovelor, gadwall, canada and greylag in a flight last season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WelshAndy Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Good going lads, I shot this bag a week last Wednesday 25/1, there was a jackdaw also sadly I left it in the hedge... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumpy22 Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 a mate of mine of here had a walk round a farm of his just before end of season woodcock partridge pheasant mallard crow and rook. great day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykie Posted February 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Excellent bags! I think we are extremely lucky to have such a wide range of quarry species available to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted February 5, 2017 Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Plus one on that comment. I'd be interested to try it out next season and make it a bit more challenging with the 410 and staying in my little 10 acre wood. Have to be a day when I had a squirrel in a trap. Should manage nine or ten in a 24hr period with luck and accurate shooting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pykie Posted February 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2017 Here are a few pics of some of the mixed bags we have achieved over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anser2 Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 (edited) Rough Shooting - 15 species Pheasant , grey partridge, french partridge , mallard, teal , snipe, jack snipe, woodcock, wood pigeon, rook ,moorhen , jay, , crow , rabbit and coypu. Wildfowling - inland - 10 species Mallard, teal , wigeon , shoveller, gadwall. canada goose, greylag goose , snipe, golden plover and pheasant. Wildfowling - coastal - 8 species Mallard, wigeon , teal , pintail , goldeneye , pink footed goose , white fronted goose and greylag goose. Wildfowling - Old days - 10 species Mallard, teal , curlew , wimbril , redshank , bar tailed godwit , grey plover, golden plover , hare and wood pigeon. Some of the waders were shot before the 1980s and were still quarry species. All the above mixed bags were shot in Norfolk. The rough shooting bag was shot in Broadland on a walk around a friends pig farm followed by an evening flight on a nearby fresh marsh. The farm was a great mix of grazing marsh, woods, reedbeds , arable fields with free range pig breeding heard on the marsh. The holes the pigs dug filled with water and attracted many waders and duck. The inland wildfowling bag was also shot in the Broads , but on a morning goose flight followed by walking up some dykes and evening flight. Both of the coastal wildfowling bags were shot on the Wash and included morning, evening and tide flights. Coypu are now extinct in the Broads , but used to be a common pest. They were rather like a giant rat twice the size of a hare with an adult weighing in around 10 Kilos. Edited February 6, 2017 by anser2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winnie&bezza Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 Rough Shooting - 15 species Pheasant , grey partridge, french partridge , mallard, teal , snipe, jack snipe, woodcock, wood pigeon, rook ,moorhen , jay, , crow , rabbit and coypu. Wildfowling - inland - 10 species Mallard, teal , wigeon , shoveller, gadwall. canada goose, greylag goose , snipe, golden plover and pheasant. Wildfowling - coastal - 8 species Mallard, wigeon , teal , pintail , goldeneye , pink footed goose , white fronted goose and greylag goose. Wildfowling - Old days - 10 species Mallard, teal , curlew , wimbril , redshank , bar tailed godwit , grey plover, golden plover , hare and wood pigeon. Some of the waders were shot before the 1980s and were still quarry species. All the above mixed bags were shot in Norfolk. The rough shooting bag was shot in Broadland on a walk around a friends pig farm followed by an evening flight on a nearby fresh marsh. The farm was a great mix of grazing marsh, woods, reedbeds , arable fields with free range pig breeding heard on the marsh. The holes the pigs dug filled with water and attracted many waders and duck. The inland wildfowling bag was also shot in the Broads , but on a morning goose flight followed by walking up some dykes and evening flight. Both of the coastal wildfowling bags were shot on the Wash and included morning, evening and tide flights. Coypu are now extinct in the Broads , but used to be a common pest. They were rather like a giant rat twice the size of a hare with an adult weighing in around 10 Kilos. When me a few mates went fishing in France, the coypu lived on the banks of the lake. On one lake there was an old Chap who drove round everyday and I only found out later in the week what he was doing. He was checking his coypu traps. One day he drives past me and stopped on the other side of the lake where one of my mates was. I saw my mate who is also a shooting man, go up to him and start talking. Anyway when we met up for dinner I asked what the old chap did and he said that a coypu was in his trap and he dispatched it but repeatedly stabbing it with one of those bang in fence pins that you out the orange mesh on. Couldn't believe it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archie-fox Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Nothing too impressive but in the same day I did Goose, grouse, rabbits,and 3 foxes.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDog Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Nothing too impressive but in the same day I did Goose, grouse, rabbits,and 3 foxes.. On the contrary. I would say that mix is an impressive one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walker570 Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Coypu believe it or not are exceptionally good eating. A friend of mine in Slovenia has a restaurant where game meat is the prime food and on one occasion served up this delicious meat and asked us what it was. Eventually we gave in and he told us it was nutria/coypu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penelope Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 Greylag, Pinkfoot, Grouse, Pheasant, Fox, Partridge (English), Pigeon, Mallard, Teal, Wigeon, Tufted. Morning flight, walk up, evening flight. Fife, early 90's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted February 8, 2017 Report Share Posted February 8, 2017 A Norfolk mc nab is a buck ,a cod and a pheasant in the same day . I have managed it twice . Harnser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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