Technique on crossing birds

[Geordieboy]

What system are people using on crossing game birds?

I shoot crossing clays with the mount on and pull away method to reasonably good effect. I have been trying to shoot game with a controlled swing through for driven and crossers, driven it's working fine but any crossing birds seem to be absolute disaster area for me at the minute. Thinking about going back to my clay shooting method of mount on and pull away.

Touch the Clay push away is good.  But Game needs a lot more lead...usually.  Also you must get the line right.  Swing through can work but a gamebird is continually using the wind to good effect to get away from the danger zone and rarely flies in a straight line

Clays are usually slowing down as well (mostly) while a game bird will be accelerating to get to its terminal velocity as quick as it can.  You need to get dialled in to game.  I always found out I was behind and threw more lead on to a live target with better results.  Practice makes perfect on game......but its expensive practice!

 

[chippy]

Touch the Clay push away is good.  But Game needs a lot more lead...usually.  Also you must get the line right.  Swing through can work but a gamebird is continually using the wind to good effect to get away from the danger zone and rarely flies in a straight line

Clays are usually slowing down as well (mostly) while a game bird will be accelerating to get to its terminal velocity as quick as it can.  You need to get dialled in to game.  I always found out I was behind and threw more lead on to a live target with better results.  Practice makes perfect on game......but its expensive practice!

It's totally the other way for me. I see big leads on clays 20-30ft on real stonking targets and regularly see 10 -15 ft somewhere  on a normal registered shoot, but game and pigeons I have to cut back by at least half.

 

[Jonny English]

It's totally the other way for me. I see big leads on clays 20-30ft on real stonking targets and regularly see 10 -15 ft somewhere  on a normal registered shoot, but game and pigeons I have to cut back by at least half.

Same for both a mate of mine and Myself, don't give game anywhere near as much lead as we do at decent standard clays, mostly shoot in front of my game.

 

[ChrisPackham]

Biggest culprit to missing in my opinion is not being on line .Crossing high Pheasants are invariably dropping.

Exactly this