johnthebrit

WOW!! I'll be goose hunting on the prairies soon, but can't expect a bag like that!!

Fully agree and would add that a SxS, especially 26 or 28 inch barrels will swing quicker than an O/U. I personally find it harder to connect with the 2nd barrel with my Browning O/U, when the escaping bird is dodging. then with a SxS. Also, a less expensive gun means you don't worry so much about a bit of rain/mud/blood getting on it. Fit is the most important factor. Good luck!

They will decide, there are no rules! Some perfectly acceptable fields get 100% ignored, others get mobbed. It helps if they are accustomed to using that field, like us having a favourite local pub.

Hi Gents, I'm new to Hunting Life, so please excuse me if this topic has been done to death already. I've been pigeon shooting on and off, for 45 years, seriously for the last 15. In my area, Essex/Herts, I'm finding it more and more difficult to get things to work. The birds seem magnet shy, flapper shy, even decoy shy sometimes. Bale hides don't work any more. So you hide yourself 100%, get a couple of shots, them they all go elsewhere. I can't find solid flightlines, just "flock-strings" where birds follow each other along until you shoot one, then the chain breaks and reforms somewhere