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Post by sakorifle on Nov 21, 2014 17:42:18 GMT -5
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Post by chubwub on Nov 21, 2014 18:16:55 GMT -5
Oh that looks like a lot of fun! Hard to tell how high up they are shooting for me, I notice that cameras sometimes appear to make guys look like they are shooting geese 150 yards up as opposed to maybe 50 yrds. Those geese look like they know where they want to go though, I bet decoying flocks that size would be challenging unless you are right in the spot they want to be. Those pink foots remind me of snow geese a bit with all the noise they make. Someday, I would like to go snow goose hunting.
My fiance rarely allows me shoot at geese that high. In his older age he much rather prefers the challenge of decoying them in and having them come in 1 or 2 at a time so as not to educate large flocks of birds. Then again, some of it (or most hehehe) may be that I am most assuredly not a fantastic shot and thus he makes sure the birds are close enough to ensure that even I can kill them.
I smiled seeing that he was using a side by side. I was introduced to water-fowling with a Stoger Condor over and under and killed my first teal with it on the first hunt. I've since graduated to a big girl gun, semi-auto Stoger M3500. I've never gotten a chance to do any sort of real upland hunting except for a little bit of rabbits but it is definitely on my to-do list. As I am sure you have read on the forums, grouse are not doing so well in here in Indiana so it just wouldn't be right to take the numbers down even further until they can handle it. Perhaps one day I will get lucky and get drawn for pheasants. My fiance keeps telling me if I can hit a duck then I can hit a pheasant, so we shall see.
Are Springers your preferred choice of hunting dog over there? If so, good choice I might say. We used to raise them, always had a soft spot for them. Good reliable dogs, if a bit hard headed at times and they can be quite dominant. We were very careful about breeding for good disposition along with everything else, a dog that is genetically aggressive by nature as opposed to bold is never a good thing.
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Post by sakorifle on Nov 21, 2014 21:07:22 GMT -5
greetings
If ever you and your fiance come over here in the season give me time to arrange it and we will see if i can fix you up with a days driven pheasant shooting.
lots and lots of pheasants here.
Grouse here are so expensive to shoot driven that it usually is out of reach for the working man, it is somewhere in the region of 150pounds sterling a brace. i do have grouse on the moor at work but i never bother them nowadays, i used to go for a walk over there on the glorious twelfth but i don't anymore
MMMM driven pheasants coming at you are a lot faster than a duck, when they drive a wood out the pheasants and partridges come at once, partridges usually first, but the pheasant will overtake the partridge and be on you first.
Two feet in front look at its head and keep the gun swinging or one will tail it. lol
Stuart got a shock in October when i took him partridge shooting for the first time, he struggled to hit them.
Geese by the thousands if you happen to be in the right place. Semi auto is allowed for them usually.
And no bag limits just self imposed.
Yes spaniels are used mainly to flush birds, cocker spaniels are in fashion at the moment, we use Labradors for picking up dogs behind the lines of guns.
My springer is ellie who is 12 year old so basically she is retired unless she thinks i am going ducking then i cannot get out the house without her, the pup Bailey is a chocolate labrador
Ellie worked both deer and birds and was exceptional at deer and ducks, never did like picking pheasants.
Bailey still has the bird bit to get right, lol
I thought a lab may of been a bit slower for me just because i have slowed down, but i was wrong bailey is rocket fuel propelled, lol
That film was taken not too far from where i live the geese probably came off loch leven in the scottish borders, i live right on the border.
Most of my guns are side by sides being an old dinosaur killer, lol, i have one semi auto, a browning i bought for Stuart, one of my sons to clay shoot with, but when i hurt my back i used it for both geese and ducks and i did ok with it.
i only have one over and under a 28bore that i bought as a challenge to learn to shoot with one, i can use it now but i am still keeping it, lovely gun.
regards
billy
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Post by chubwub on Nov 22, 2014 21:24:54 GMT -5
A UK bird hunt, oh my what a dream and I am honoured at the offer. The pictures of the British countryside are very pretty I think, and it sounds like a lovely place to visit.
We went duck hunting today and I shot my first black duck ever! I am thinking about getting it mounted it is a very nice big drake. I also got a couple mallards as well. I knocked down a hen mallard so hard that she busted a hole in the ice and layed there belly up. Today we had to break ice to set up our decoys but it was well worth it. Our newbie is getting better at being patient and letting the birds work into the decoys. The mallards that we called in today were local educated birds that provided my fiance with quite a challenge.
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