Westley Posted October 20, 2023 Report Share Posted October 20, 2023 (edited) It never ceases to surprise me the number of people, that I tell I go clay pigeon shooting, who reply " I've always wanted to do that" ! I supply them with the details of the local shooting ground, who just happen to do a 'taster' pack for £30. There are at least 4 that I know of, who have taken up the sport this year. It's cheaper than taking the kids to a football match ! Edited October 20, 2023 by Westley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted October 20, 2023 Report Share Posted October 20, 2023 6 hours ago, Westley said: It never ceases to surprise me the number of people, that I tell I go clay pigeon shooting, who reply " I've always wanted to do that" ! I supply them with the details of the local shooting ground, who just happen to do a 'taster' pack for £30. There are at least 4 that I know of, who have taken up the sport this year. It's cheaper than taking the kids to a football match ! Maybe it's me and things might have changed since I last went to a clay shoot ( Bidwells at Henham ) but I didn't find with being a outsider one of the friendliest shoots I had been to , one or two chaps from work went there every two weeks and kept asking me to tag along and have a round , well finally I went , as I wasn't into clays I took my ole Pigeon shooting gun at the time which was an ole s x s non ejector Webley and Scott , at the time I was doing a lot of Pigeon shooting and could handle the gun quite well , on getting there we paid our deeds and off we went with a few other chaps to make the team up , the first stand didn't look that hard with a clay coming from the left and then on shot another one more or less done the same , I watched how the first ones took the birds on and I thought by leaving them for a split second longer then they were a bit easier , so when it was my turn this is what I did and I think I got the lot , then we moved on to the second stand and these were totally different , the first one was alright but the second one was nearly behind the tree before I could fire at it and on two doubles I only had one shot , when the round was over I was told where I should have took them and so on by the chaps who had only hit about half of them , by the next stand the novelty was wearing off and I was losing interest , to me most of the clays didn't react like any bird I have ever shot at and really wasn't sorry when it was over , we went to the club house for a coffee and the talk was mainly about the gun I was using as some hadn't seen a side by side let alone shot one and couldn't weigh up how I could hit a clay pigeon with a gun that had barrels side by side and worth about 50 quid , where they didn't do any better with a gun worth ten times as much . as I say things might have changed but I found them a very reserved lot and you needed to be on there wave length which I wasn't MM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westley Posted October 20, 2023 Report Share Posted October 20, 2023 I had already been shooting for around 10 years when I started a job that paid me to shoot clays. I got my cartridges and my entry fees paid. Once a year I had a week away clay shooting paid for, I had to find my own beer money though 🙄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
team tractor Posted October 21, 2023 Report Share Posted October 21, 2023 I have duck hanging up off my porch light and many have seen me skin a Munty on the drive 😂. I guess they know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted October 21, 2023 Report Share Posted October 21, 2023 13 hours ago, Westley said: I had already been shooting for around 10 years when I started a job that paid me to shoot clays. I got my cartridges and my entry fees paid. Once a year I had a week away clay shooting paid for, I had to find my own beer money though 🙄 I would had been very happy if my job had allowed me to shoot clays and paid for the fees , but sadly that was never going to happen , the nearest I got to that situation was getting paid good money to take four French guys Pigeon shooting for four days , as a bonus I got a good drink off them and kept the 300 odd Pigeons they shot . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 21, 2023 Report Share Posted October 21, 2023 14 hours ago, Westley said: I had already been shooting for around 10 years when I started a job that paid me to shoot clays. I got my cartridges and my entry fees paid. Once a year I had a week away clay shooting paid for, I had to find my own beer money though 🙄 Yes I had a wonderful few years (22) of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmm243 Posted October 21, 2023 Report Share Posted October 21, 2023 All my neighbours know, I shoot clays in the front field with the trap in the yard and have a flight pond in the back field. Nearest neighbours are over 200m away but I have the run of all adjoining land so I can just walk out the door and head off which is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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