old'un Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Interesting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marsh man Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Some nice shooting , and like my old teacher use to say , there is room for improvement . I have set up against pylons and telegraph poles in the past but always shooting away from them , I always thought it would be just my luck if I took a bird between the cables my shot would chop through the wire , I went out with a electrician once and when telling him about shooting through cables he recon it was nigh on impossible to cut through one , that might well be , but to me , prevention is better than cure Quote Link to post Share on other sites
team tractor Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 What was the kill /cartridge ratio ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ultrastu Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Behind and under a lot of those birds id say . And a second shot at a going away bird is virtually always a waste of cartridge imo. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
old'un Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Looking at the amount of pricked birds it looks like the cartridge/choke combination is not open enough for the close birds and the long shots are perhaps beyond his experience/skill, that said, there were some good shots. As Marsh Man said, I also would not be happy shooting through those power cables. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WalkedUp Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Looks like he had an enjoyable session 👍 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mossy835 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 good video and nice lot of birds,but a lot more could have be killed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Morkin Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 Good video again ,And yes I would not set up near wires as said but shooting wise you done well I can say I have shot a lot worse than that . Keep up the good work and keep the good videos comming Thanks mate looking forward to next one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clangerman Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 nice effort there we all miss a few sometimes keep the vids coming Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stockybasher Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Very dangerous to shoot through power cables ! Many years back, roost shooting in Germany I cut clean through such a cable. Huge flash and cable came writhing down, sparking. I wasn't in a hide and my natural reaction to the danger got me about 10ft away in a second or so !! The local village was without power until the cable was fixed next day. Big claim on my Jagdschein insurance. Learned from that - never shoot near local cables - I think the tall cable towers are a different issue and not so risky. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
London Best Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Twenty years ago on an estate in Shropshire one of the guns hit a cable and cut off power to the local area. His only worry was that lunch would be spoiled. Fortunately, it was the host and owner of the estate himself who fired the shot. We all found it hilarious. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bruno22rf Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 How many pricked birds? If the anti's are watching this they will have a field day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old farrier Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Thanks to jacko for taking the time to do the video 😊👍 posted warts and all difficult place to shoot with the wires and conditions so I can see why he set up there im not going to judge the shooting as I know he’s a novice and not knowing the cartridges (steel?) it wouldn’t be fair however I did think he’s improving from some of the earliest video’s Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marsh man Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 To be fair to Jacko the camera don't always show you the true picture and what look dangerous with shooting under the wires he could have shot before they reached the wires or when they were well clear , we wern't there so we can only judge on what we see on the video , trouble is there might be youngsters and people who are just entering the sport watching the video who would be thinking it would be perfectly normal to be shooting through the wires which we all know is far from normal and could be highly dangerous , as for the shooting skill we all have our own way of when to pull the trigger , as I sit down for all my decoying I couldn't take on a lot of the shots jacko took on and what he believe he can hit is again different from me , we can't alter the fact we do it for the sport it produce and watching the video he was getting a nice lot of sport . One thing jacko can be commended for is he show the video as it is and not just the ones that look like they are killed with nigh on every shot the decoyer take , nice one jacko and THANKS for sharing . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good shot? Posted February 24 Share Posted February 24 3 hours ago, marsh man said: To be fair to Jacko the camera don't always show you the true picture and what look dangerous with shooting under the wires he could have shot before they reached the wires or when they were well clear , we wern't there so we can only judge on what we see on the video , trouble is there might be youngsters and people who are just entering the sport watching the video who would be thinking it would be perfectly normal to be shooting through the wires which we all know is far from normal and could be highly dangerous , as for the shooting skill we all have our own way of when to pull the trigger , as I sit down for all my decoying I couldn't take on a lot of the shots jacko took on and what he believe he can hit is again different from me , we can't alter the fact we do it for the sport it produce and watching the video he was getting a nice lot of sport . One thing jacko can be commended for is he show the video as it is and not just the ones that look like they are killed with nigh on every shot the decoyer take , nice one jacko and THANKS for sharing . Always enjoy warts and all videos. Keep them coming jacko. i’m sure we all learn something from them too. in my case reminds me what pigeon decoying is like. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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