Triple gunning

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[FlyingTrotter]

Last year West London had a competition to shoot X clays in Y minutes with 2 loader triple gunning - results may be still on their site 

 

[LarsJ]

Smooth and fluently transitions.. Not looking, just reaching and loader hand of is spot on. If s actually something loaders and shooters train for? I have never seen it practiced live. 

Lars

 

[Hamster]

I wouldn't stand within 60 yards of that. 

 

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Lars

Double guning is more usual these days, i dont think anyone triple guns now

I wouldn't stand within 60 yards of that. 

Gun handling is a tad dodgy

 

[El Spavo]

Looks good fun though, as long as you're not the blokes reloading, especially the guy with the clipboard, the birds, or anyone in the nearby 17 postcodes!

 

[schmokinn]

I wouldn't stand within 60 yards of that. 

Braver than me...i would want to be 500M away!!

 

[Paul120]

Woh..   I guess his staff are cheap and lawyers are good. 

Limbo must be in their training programme. 

 

[Garwood]

Proper partridge shot there !Thanks for posting. Is it Nickerson ?

 

[westley]

THAT is how they shot 2000 bird days though  !   As far as I am aware, Croxteth Hall in Liverpool still holds the record of highest numbers of birds shot.  It was over a 3 day period in1887. One gun, Earl de Grey boasted that he had shot 2,105 ( for 2,800 cartridges) to his own gun, also adding that he killed 28 birds in 1 minute. That prompted West London Shooting School to try and repeat it, I do not know the outcome.

 

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Proper partridge shot there !Thanks for posting. Is it Nickerson ?

Yes Lord nickerson

 

[MartynB]

I half expected it to be Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse , doing Mr Grayson and Cholmondly- Warner ..  it has a very similar feel to it . 

 

[Garwood]

THAT is how they shot 2000 bird days though  !   As far as I am aware, Croxteth Hall in Liverpool still holds the record of highest numbers of birds shot.  It was over a 3 day period in1887. One gun, Earl de Grey boasted that he had shot 2,105 ( for 2,800 cartridges) to his own gun, also adding that he killed 28 birds in 1 minute. That prompted West London Shooting School to try and repeat it, I do not know the outcome.

Youtube Ripon Challenge!

 

[westley]

Youtube Ripon Challenge!

De Grey was the Marquis of Ripon,  I believe. 

 

[Salopian]

Not a Lord.

Sir Joseph Nickerson 

Rothwell near Lincoln.

 

[Jonny English]

Nickerson was local to us, his book a shooting man's creed is worth a read. He was an advocate of traditional partridge shooting over hedge rows. His life's study was the English partridge and the family emblem also i believe. My dad once spent several days pushing soil into all the hedge rows with a dozer so the partridge could nest elevated from field level. On his former estate every section of woodland and cover crop was placed with partridge shooting in mind.

 

[Salopian]

His house at Rothwell has been converted to a memorial museum .

I organise private visits there to read all his shooting records and see his vast array of shooting memorabilia .

For Game shooters it is a wonderful day out 

 

[ChrisPackham]

Anyone with the spare cash back then could pillowcase that about of birds in day, especially as they were driven back wards and forwards over the same drives.. Partridge tire quickly anyway, not sporting, just record chasing cull of game birds coupled with their scorched earth Vermin policy for miles around, whether they had permission or not..