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Anybody remember Hayfield club it was above the sportsman pub.They had 30 bird sporting shoot The 3rd Saturday in every month.They also had sleet.Most of the guns were English s/b/s .The prize on the sporting was a silver spoon.On one shoot 2 guys shot a round of sleet with 8 Bores the loser paid for the cartridges .It was one of the oldest clubs in the country.

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I shot there in the 1980s, but didn't realise it was a long established club. First visited early 1980s and went back a few years later. For a long established club, they seemed to have little understanding of how to put on a decent layout or any concept of safety. Trappers were barely protected from the shooters on my last visit - never went back.

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I went there when I first started to shoot about 30 years ago.I recall it being quite a trek up hill.

My most memorable feature of the ground was something called a gentleman's rise,(this ment instead of calling for the bird, you nodded your head, someone behind you honked a horn or blew a whistle and off the clay went) Bizzare never seen it before or since. From Auntie.

 

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18 hours ago, 100milesaway said:

 

My most memorable feature of the ground was something called a gentleman's rise,(this ment instead of calling for the bird, you nodded your head, someone behind you honked a horn or blew a whistle and off the clay went) 

 

Modern version of this is at Penkridge 

Occasionally one of the traps is a distance from the stand. Shooter shouts pull, mate hits an empty calor bottle so trapper can hear, clays come from behind, over a hedge the other side of a track. 

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