Sprinter Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 1st beaters day of the season tomorrow . Hopefully i'll manage to get a few pheasants, last few beats on the shoot have shown a lot of birds. There should be a good show for us Next day is Saturday, also on Pheasants , followed by next Weds (Partridge), Thurs (Pheasant, partride and duck) Fri Pheasant. Busy times!!! It'll be a little disheartening though if i get more that i have shot on my bought syndicate days this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprinter Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 (edited) Well here's the report. Picked up the dog and arrived nice and early. Split into two teams by the keeper. Tossed a coin and it was our turn to beat first. Bit of a walk to the first drive with some blanking in. The guns managed a couple of birds during this. We waited at the cover for the guns to get themselves organised and then went through the cover. Unfortunately only one cock bird came out and went back very very low. Two hens over the guns, but as it was a cock day they went unmolested. Second drive of the day and we are standing for the hot drive. I also find myself on one of the best pegs. First bird over and i am miles behind it and showered by tail feathers. At least i knew where I had missed it!! Adjusted my angle of lead and bagged the next one nice and clean, head back dead in the air. We then had a few flushes of hens followed by another cock, just down the side of this one but it folded nicely and was gathered by next doors dog before it could make good it's escape. I then had trouble identifying the next couple of cocks, one escaped without a salute and the next had a hurried shot behind. Then a beaut straight at me which folded nicely and dropped just behind me. Not a bad start to the day 3 cocks for 6 shots. Next drive we beat and pushed lots of birds forward over the other team but none seemed to come back to us in the line. However those lined out had some good shooting. Standing for the next dive, but i blanked. No shots fired by me but watched a few others take some nice birds. Last drive before lunch was a long walk away and i beat this one. Didn't trouble the scorer here and had no shots. The lineout again had a few nice birds. It's here we had a break for lunch. After lunch i was placed on special maneuvers with two other guns detailed with stopping anything escaping over onto the neihbours land. It was a quiet start but lots of birds were running towards us that were hissed and clicked back into the next drive. I had 3 pot shots at pigeon here but they were too clever for me by half and missed them all. Then i contrived to get myself in all kinds of knots with the scenery and clean missed two cocks. At the very end of the drive I took a nice left to right crossing cock and about 30 secs later a cock that had made a break for the boundary over my right shoulder was dropped very cleanly. After this was our stand and it was largely uneventful apart from me managing to completely miss a nicely presented high cock heading over my left shoulder. Just couldn't believe i missed it after the previous two great shots. Last drive was a long walk beating for us but as soon as we stepped into the drive a cock burst back and was dropped with two simultaneous shots, hmm better be half each then. A little further along and birds were flushing nicely over the standing guns when another tried to break back over me which was stopped with the second barrel and involved a long walk back to pick. Just over half way though we regrouped and repositioned and i found myself out on the flank, almost immediately a cock burst out side ways and gained a lot of height on the way through the trees. I was very pleased to drop it cleanly at a very respectable distance. So all in all a very enjoyable day 7 1/2 birds for 18 shots was my final tally. Overall we were in the high fifties and very professionally they were all cocks, not a single hen copped it. :blink: Edited January 23, 2008 by Sprinter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ91 Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Well here's the report. Picked up the dog and arrived nice and early. Split into two teams by the keeper. Tossed a coin and it was our turn to beat first. Bit of a walk to the first drive with some blanking in. The guns managed a couple of birds during this. We waited at the cover for the guns to get themselves organised and then went through the cover. Unfortunately only one cock bird came out and went back very very low. Two hens over the guns, but as it was a cock day they went unmolested. Second drive of the day and we are standing for the hot drive. I also find myself on one of the best pegs. First bird over and i am miles behind it and showered by tail feathers. At least i knew where I had missed it!! Adjusted my angle of lead and bagged the next one nice and clean, head back dead in the air. We then had a few flushes of hens followed by another cock, just down the side of this one but it folded nicely and was gathered by next doors dog before it could make good it's escape. Next cock just over my left hand side, flying strong until it met my shot stream - stone dead picked by the dog to my left. I then had trouble identifying the next couple of cocks, one escaped without a salute and the next had a hurried shot behind. Then a beaut straight at me which folded nicely and dropped just behind me. Not a bad start to the day 3 cocks for 6 shots. Next drive we beat and pushed lots of birds forward over the other team but none seemed to come back to us in the line. However those lined out had some good shooting. Standing for the next dive, but i blanked. No shots fired by me but watched a few others take some nice birds. Last drive before lunch was a long walk away and i beat this one. Didn't trouble the scorer here and had no shots. The lineout again had a few nice birds. It's here we had a break for lunch. After lunch i was placed on special maneuvers with two other guns detailed with stopping anything escaping over onto the neihbours land. It was a quiet start but lots of birds were running towards us that were hissed and clicked back into the next drive. I had 3 pot shots at pigeon here but they were too clever for me by half and missed them all. Then i contrived to get myself in all kinds of knots with the scenery and clean missed two cocks. At the very end of the drive I took a nice left to right crossing cock and about 30 secs later a cock that had made a break for the boundary over my right shoulder was dropped very cleanly. After this was our stand and it was largely uneventful apart from me managing to completely miss a nicely presented high cock heading over my left shoulder. Just couldn't believe i missed it after the previous two great shots. Last drive was a long walk beating for us but as soon as we stepped into the drive a cock burst back and was dropped with two simultaneous shots, hmm better be half each then. A little further along and birds were flushing nicely over the standing guns when another tried to break back over me which was stopped with the second barrel and involved a long walk back to pick. Just over half way though we regrouped and repositioned and i found myself out on the flank, almost immediately a cock burst out side ways and gained a lot of height on the way through the trees. I was very pleased to drop it cleanly at a very respectable distance. So all in all a very enjoyable day 7 1/2 birds for 18 shots was my final tally. Overall we were in the high fifties and very professionally they were all cocks, not a single hen copped it. :blink: if you can post some pics we are running a bit slow on the pic section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurcherboy Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 That sounds like a top beaters day to me Sprinter :blink: LB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprinter Posted January 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 It was a great beaters day indeed, sadly no pics. I will post my exploits on Saturday, with an unimaginative title something like "2nd beaters day of the season" again sadly no pics....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC45 Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hi Sprinter, do you have any advice on how to get into beating??? Cheers Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munst Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Sounds like a good day had! Got mine this Saturday - cocks and 'good hens' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 Hi Sprinter, do you have any advice on how to get into beating??? Cheers Phil "Have you tried NOBS?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_R Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 I have been invited to shoot this beater's day, having beaten all season so far. However I have not yet got my SGC so I guess I will be having to share the estate gun to comply with the law. Hence I doubt I'll get much shooting in, but I know I'll enjoy the day in any case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grouse2008 Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 Shooting4all offers free services to get people onto shoots as does PuBS links below www.shooting4all.com/ www.pubs.myfunforum.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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