Young_SA_Gun Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Hello Gents Greetings from the coastal city of Durban where, at the moment, our winter tempratures are sitting at around max25 c. min 15 c, try not to get to jealous Our shooting season opened this past weekend so I'm looking forward to a good three months of awesome wingshooting! I'm probably moving to the UK near the end of this year (around Nov/Dec) and being a keen wingshooter I have been researching the UK scene, the home of wingshooting. I'm quite young (21) and would like to know more about the different types of wingshooting in the UK such as rough shooting, driven shoots, pigeon shooting, ferreting???, wildfowling etc and and in terms of cost, because i'm sure i'll be broke for the first couple months i'm their, what would be the best option as a newbie to the shooting scene to make mates and start getting out there. If anybody has any questions on the south african scene please don't hesitate to fire away! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Elvis Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Welcome....but take advice....STAY THERE....is bloody cold here!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2shots Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 Have a look at the NPPC site on here you can join for £125 +basc membership, and somebody will help you out,probably saves you a lot of hassle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highseas Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 firstly welcom to pw shooting in the uk is quite hard to come by unless you can pay for driven pheasants. all land is owned by some one be it marsh or woodland or open wastland, so you mush get shooting permission 1 driven shooting is where a group of hill billys(beaters) beat out a drive this is a pice of land that has been looked after for game birds by a keeper and the birds are driven over the line of guns when shot they are picked up by pickers up tha price for this kind of shooting can be any where for £25 a bird to £45 a bird the bag can be up to 1000 birds as well!! 2 walked up this is where a line of guns walk thru a bit of cover that will hold game birds and shoot them as they flush the price for this is about £12-£30 a bird 3 rough shooting this would take a book in its self to exsplain but it can be a group of good freinds or a singleton with a dog walking around scrub land ,marshes, reed beds, woodland and shooting AT most legit quarry it is verry good fun and usally costs no more than a bottel of whisky at christmas to the farmer it can also be done over pointers or other dogs a days walked up may include a mini drive or 2. or a ambush for flighting duck (with non-toxick shot )or pigeons 4 pigeon decoying (some one else can fill in the real info about this ) its baiskley putting out plastick pigeons to fool other pigeons in to thinking its safe to feed/roost their and you pop out of your hide and bamm bird down. 5 ferreting is putting a feret down a rabbit hole and hopefully the abbit bolts out being shot by you of chased by a lurcher or in to one of the many types or net we have long ,gate,stop,purse,poke, this is a good way to thin out numbers but if the ferret kills below ground you gotta dig him out haha hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyboy30 Posted June 2, 2008 Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 hello and welcome to pw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axe Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Welcome to PW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trussman Posted June 3, 2008 Report Share Posted June 3, 2008 Hello. Wildfowling is when you sit out on the shore in horrendous weather and shoot Ducks, Geese and Waders and other Waterfowl on their way to feed, roosts etc. Pigeon shooting and Wildfowling are probably the cheapest forms of shooting. You can also go Deer Stalking, which as the name suggests is where you stalk deer. Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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