80 yard pheasants?

[Jeremy Baker]

Not everyone gets the chance to shoot these types of birds....why?.....because these are often private shoots (invite only) or veeeeeeerrry very expensive.
And before anyone says that they can get cheap high birds.....I say .....please pm me the contact details and I will get stuck in before the season ends. :wink:

Me too.
I paid for a "high bird" day invited by fellow guns from my Lincs Sydicate.
Hmmm maybe 40-50 yards at very best.
Still a great day. Before you'd think it rubbish.
Best so far for me had a great middle drive bagging 32 pheasants and partridge.

 

[Finners]

I have read this thread with great interest. I don't do any live shooting at the moment, but I used to do quite a bit. My own rule was simple, if I thought I could not hit it because it was too far away, OR it was too close/easy to hit, then I would not pull the trigger. 

My favourite story, proving this to be true, involved what could have been the easiest left and right Woodcock ever. I am proud to say that I did not pull the trigger on the first bird (because it popped up less than 10 yards away) and because I had let it go, when the second bird broke cover about 12 - 15 yards away I instantly realised what I had done (ie a Left & Right at Woodcock) and therefore let it go too. Never ever regretted doing so either. 

 

[DoubleBarrelledDon]

With my post crash recovery making a little headway at last I went shooting for the first time in weeks a few days ago...armed with 28 bore and 21gram loads and full and full.....(needs must when the shoulders are still a tad achy....) connected with a few including a good cockbird that needed a good 5-6 pheasant lengths.....(work it out for yourselves...)  it came down but it wasn't dead in the air. I still believe that although you can kill good birds with small gauges and loads that heavy loads deliver the goods and i'm 100% sure that 36 grams of 4's would have seen it stone dead.....

oh and before anyone questions why I was shooting at a pheasant at that range with a 21 gram load it had a leg down ........

 

[shootinguru]

:fie:  Oh! It was about to land then? :crazy:  

 

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Ian steady....Cyril is on a wind up and is trying to be amusing. Read his post as an attempt at a joke.

Nursey will be along to give him his pills soon......New Years Eve is always a struggle in the home .....so they put them to bed early......11.30am .......so that the staff can party.

 

[shootinguru]

:fie:   Yeah I have one every morning! :fie:   BTW I've known Don since he learned to spell gun.

 

[DoubleBarrelledDon]

its ok everyone...he had a lousy sense of humour when I used to trap for him......"don't worry sonny, that rusty corrugated tin is plenty strong enough to protect you ..." .!

 

[wylye]

its ok everyone...he had a lousy sense of humour when I used to trap for him......"don't worry sonny, that rusty corrugated tin is plenty strong enough to protect you ..." .!

Well you were safer behind that than in your Freelander!

 

[shootinguru]

OUCH! that was very naughty of you Ian :fie:   go and sit on the step! reved:   

 

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Boom..!!

Ouch...!!

 

[CarlOT]

I will out and out say that 32g of 5s is not enough of a shell to KILL birds clean CONSISTANTLY! Not if or buts.. The majority of shot whom believe they shoot high birds are deluded ! Those that have myself included know full well they take some stopping. Not broken wings for the pickers up. Stone dead !

 

[Darkside]

Snap!!! Makes for clean kills, just wish more of the guns going to the two estates I beat at would do the same... One of the owners refuses to shoot anything more than 23g 6's through his 20bore choked cyl 1/4...but he doesn't like birds with "too much air around them..." !?!?

 

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Well I do alright with 20 bore, 32grn or 28grm 6 and 5's. Full and extra full.

Suppose it is where you put the lead.

Mine come down without complaining because they are dead.

 

[MARK-POACHER]

Yep ive a ground to air missle ready for next year ...lets blow em to bits .

 

[Darkside]

Yep ive a ground to air missle ready for next year ...lets blow em to bits .

I'm not talking about 30-40yd birds with 36g, the 36g shells were for the two high drives on Sunday, 30.5g fiber 5's through the 3/4 and 34g 5,s through the full walked up and on the lower drives (switching to top barrel first driven, taking them out in front)

 

[Lee Roberts]

I've got some 34g and some 36g loads in my collection, one has a picture of a goose and the other has a duck on it.....
Of course I naturally thought these were for what it suggested on the box..............




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[Lee Roberts]

Yep ive a ground to air missle ready for next year ...lets blow em to bits .

I'm not talking about 30-40yd birds with 36g, the 36g shells were for the two high drives on Sunday, 30.5g fiber 5's through the 3/4 and 34g 5,s through the full walked up and on the lower drives (switching to top barrel first driven, taking them out in front)

Pheasants on a Sunday.....?


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[Darkside]

Pheasants on a Sunday.....?Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Typo...Saturday!!!

 

[MARK-POACHER]

I'm not talking about 30-40yd birds with 36g, the 36g shells were for the two high drives on Sunday, 30.5g fiber 5's through the 3/4 and 34g 5,s through the full walked up and on the lower drives (switching to top barrel first driven, taking them out in front)

I have stood on some of the highest drives there is, and not once over 35 years of shooting game would I feel need to put 36 gram of 4s in a gun to kill a bird, the most I would ever shoot is 32gram 6/5 but all my best kills have been with 28gram of pure gold 6 shot, and this not hedge hoppers.

I also shoot alot of game with a 28 bore and never have a problem.and the bosses daughter with her 28 bore and 19 grams of 6 shot killed a a cock pheasant on our shoot this year at 70/80 yards stone dead...and does time and time again

Enjoy ya shooter.

 

[Darkside]

I've got some 34g and some 36g loads in my collection, one has a picture of a goose and the other has a duck on it..... Of course I naturally thought these were for what it suggested on the box.............. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Geese get 40-50g of BB's 1's or 3's of lead about here... (Not over water) 36g steel over water