First day on the shoot

[Stavross 13,711]

That’s it, over for another year, 41 was the bag and there was some screamers, two of the drives produced some very high and fast birds, kids all got some good shooting and everyone went home happy, we will be having a squirrel day for the kids over the next couple of weeks, we put 750 birds down and we are around 450 shot and picked with a few more not found, so you will get no complaints form me with them numbers from our little shoot

Edited January 26, 2019 by Stavross

[Stavross 13,711]

All change on the shoot, forestry have started thinning out around two of the pens so I’ve been up today to see them as they want to be in one of the pens, these lads don’t mess about, I was shocked at how much timber they have taken out, some of it has opened up nicely and will create a couple of new drives putting birds over a valley giving some high shooting, on the down side we may have to move a pen, they should be finished in a week or so giving it time to settle down and for the ground cover to establish over the summer, I had a walk over the far side of the shoot and was pleased to see a fair few birds still about, this is the first year we have continued to feed them through the winter around the boundaries and they are looking well, I spotted one cock with 8 hens ushering them in and out the hedge row, the lucky lad

[Longshanx 832]

3 hours ago, Stavross said:

All change on the shoot, forestry have started thinning out around two of the pens so I’ve been up today to see them as they want to be in one of the pens, these lads don’t mess about, I was shocked at how much timber they have taken out, some of it has opened up nicely and will create a couple of new drives putting birds over a valley giving some high shooting, on the down side we may have to move a pen, they should be finished in a week or so giving it time to settle down and for the ground cover to establish over the summer, I had a walk over the far side of the shoot and was pleased to see a fair few birds still about, this is the first year we have continued to feed them through the winter around the boundaries and they are looking well, I spotted one cock with 8 hens ushering them in and out the hedge row, the lucky lad

Looks good, they've made plenty of room. Might not get whipped in the face as much now when beating

[Stavross 13,711]

You don’t need to concern yourself about all the space they have made, I’ve still got plenty of beating for the likes of you, good old character building beating

[Longshanx 832]

7 hours ago, Stavross said:

You don’t need to concern yourself about all the space they have made, I’ve still got plenty of beating for the likes of you, good old character building beating

Thought you might say that