Shooting

[TonyN]

we were a fraction of that.... but what glorious day to be out... cold, frosty, fresh... and with a smoke on the go... few glasses of champagne, black pudding and a slice of game pie and the revelation of the day... a scotch egg with chilli in the 'scotch' bit!!!!

That's why I love this hobby.

[Emaresee]

Superb pictures!

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cheers... i've had to crop them and all sorts... the originals (by accident it would seem) are larger and have more in them, and look much better... but these have squashed down all right!

[Emaresee]

we were a fraction of that.... but what glorious day to be out... cold, frosty, fresh... and with a smoke on the go... few glasses of champagne, black pudding and a slice of game pie and the revelation of the day... a scotch egg with chilli in the 'scotch' bit!!!!

[TonyN]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]27003[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]27004[/ATTACH]managed to squash em down and reduce the size of the pics a bit... one is wandering along a valley where its driven from the bank on the left, the other is over the main lake.

That is one nice scenery cold and crisp even with the sun out today on our shoot nothing thawed out.

[smokey joe]

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Superb pictures!


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[TonyN]

like bomber command were giving the orders

[Emaresee]

With the Ride of the Valkyries playing and the smell of napalm in the air

they got high today... like bomber command were giving the orders!

[TonyN]

Not a bad days shooting today considering after 2 drives there was 17 pheasants and I woodcock in the game cart
the day finished with 119 pheasants and 7 woodcock.

[Emaresee]

drive1.jpgIMG_20160116_101404722.jpgmanaged to squash em down and reduce the size of the pics a bit... one is wandering along a valley where its driven from the bank on the left, the other is over the main lake.

[PeeJay]

I can just picture the scene now of them pheasants coming over them tree tops.

With the Ride of the Valkyries playing and the smell of napalm in the air

[TonyN]

I can just picture the scene now of them pheasants coming over them tree tops.

[Emaresee]

drive2.jpggandc.jpgquiet day on the shoot today. good day at the duck, partridge were scarce and we had some small amounts of really quality pheasant. the picture is of one of our better drives... the land folds away into a gulley where the pheasants like to hang out! they come out through the tree tops which shows to the guns high handsome and going some! i took a bunch of other pictures.. but somehow flipped my phone to super HD so they are all too big to upload!!

[TonyN]

our syndicate of 10 guns got invited to shoot in Cumbria last Saturday what a posh weekend it was too
what one of them was telling me today.
Stayed at a castle, full English breakfast was served by a couple of buttlers all silverware on this long table they sat on.
Then of they went on a very posh gun trailer that had a drinks cabinet in there with whiskey's brandy's port etc.
Talk about bloody high birds must of been 70 yards up and screamers coulden't load fast enough he said
first drive I shot 55 cartridges number 5s 30grm shot for 10 birds
total bag that day was 417 birds. Totaly different to what we are used to here.
Days like that will be cherished.

[Simon-JG-hr]

Walked over a maize cover from this season a couple of days ago - they've been out and cut everything and piled the shelters/feeders in a pile by the track. Felt like arriving at the buffet after closing time, haha!

Two more days for me this week and an invitation to Keeper's Day at one of the best estates I work with - a very welcome opportunity. Have stood on those drives loading and hosting several times this season and been very jealous of the guns, cracking place to shoot.

Planning for next season has been in full swing since before Christmas though. Already five dates set in stone for clients and finalising my roving syndicate days over the next week or so. Then it's onto organising our Glorious Twelfth party and 2017's big project once we're into February. I must be mad!

[TonyN]

They certainly do they have to cut them back because not even the dogs can get in if they smell a birds in there
let alone beaters.