Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 So as I’m under house arrest I’ve been flicking through some old and not so old pictures I have saved, trying to remember what normal life is like and I thought I’d start a new topic and put a couple up to show what we are all missing and waiting for again, hopefully you lot can add a few or a couple of shooting tails me and my sheep farmer mate ‘mosh’ first time I ever took him pigeon shooting pest control on the geese, I must of been in my 20’s there because the gun is an old lanber that was my first O/U a bunch of rabbits shot from the combine as the cut wheat, a really fun way to shoot bolting rabbits from the crop, again with the lanber, so this was good few years ago 7 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Fox shooting with little Hugo’s dad, looking at the crop I’d guess this was around July time out just after Christmas one year with mosh, his first brace of partridge me with a couple of teal, walked up ruff shooting 5 Quote Link to post
shovel leaner 7,648 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Good idea for a thread Stavross . 2 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, shovel leaner said: Good idea for a thread Stavross . Something to take our minds off this mess for a little while 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 A cracking day at the shoot, I’d say this was about 5 years ago, because the kid on the left is one of the lads I take out with the rifles now, as you can see from the other picture he’s all grown up now and in the last year of school 3 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Out on the geese, pest control at a place that used to breed ornamental ducks, this must of been a long time ago because Mosh looks about 12 and he’s 9 years older than me ( join in lads, let’s have a few pics ) 4 Quote Link to post
terryd 8,036 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 Happy times. Goose shooting is a real buzz. Me and mate went out on a full moon by a splash one night near the end of the season. It was magical with ducks cruising around under the moon and we turned half a dozen geese towards but fluffed the shooting. Can't wait to try it again 1 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 4 minutes ago, terryd said: Happy times. Goose shooting is a real buzz. Me and mate went out on a full moon by a splash one night near the end of the season. It was magical with ducks cruising around under the moon and we turned half a dozen geese towards but fluffed the shooting. Can't wait to try it again I love duck and goose shooting, it amazes me that you only need a puddle in a field and you can have some of the best shooting you will ever have, the speed the ducks come in is unbelievable and when shooting geese you would think it would be easy going off the size of them but I’ve missed a lot Quote Link to post
BenBhoy 4,706 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 (edited) 48 minutes ago, Stavross said: I love duck and goose shooting, it amazes me that you only need a puddle in a field and you can have some of the best shooting you will ever have, the speed the ducks come in is unbelievable and when shooting geese you would think it would be easy going off the size of them but I’ve missed a lot My introduction to shotgun shooting was estuary wildfowling. Not the average intro for a 11yr old but it taught me alot; about respect for nature, about listening to those more experienced than yourself & how bloody difficult teal are to hit at 5 o'clock in the morning. Where I grew up I could walk to the estuary from my parents house in under 5 minutes. And now I live in the f***ing Midlands!!! Edited April 5, 2020 by BenBhoy 3 1 Quote Link to post
si brown 8,486 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 42 minutes ago, Stavross said: I love duck and goose shooting, it amazes me that you only need a puddle in a field and you can have some of the best shooting you will ever have, the speed the ducks come in is unbelievable and when shooting geese you would think it would be easy going off the size of them but I’ve missed a lot got to agree with the goose shooting, there either way to high 60yrd to the left or right of you or ten foot above your head while you've got a cup of coffee in your hand this was my first half decent session when I fist got my sgc.. took the air gun to finish off any runners 6 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 12 minutes ago, BenBhoy said: My introduction to shotgun shooting was estuary wildfowling. Not the average intro for a 11yr old but it taught me alot; about respect for nature, about listening to those more experienced than yourself & how bloody difficult teal are to hit at 5 o'clock in the morning. Where I grew up I could walk to the estuary from my parents house in under 5 minutes. And now I live in the f***ing Midlands!!! I’ve never done estuary shooting, all my ducks and geese have been inland, I’ve been offered the opportunity a couple of times to pay for days as part of a team of guns on the estuary but I’m from up north and that’s against my religion Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, si brown said: got to agree with the goose shooting, there either way to high 60yrd to the left or right of you or ten foot above your head while you've got a cup of coffee in your hand this was my first half decent session when I fist got my sgc.. took the air gun to finish off any runners I have no idea when this one was taken but it must of been a good while ago because I can’t remember the last time I shot Jac’s on fresh drilling’s, we are definitely missing out on these now the spring drilling’s have gone in, the bangers will be working overtime 1 Quote Link to post
si brown 8,486 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 15 minutes ago, Stavross said: I have no idea when this one was taken but it must of been a good while ago because I can’t remember the last time I shot Jac’s on fresh drilling’s, we are definitely missing out on these now the spring drilling’s have gone in, the bangers will be working overtime the beans are going in any day now at one place I shoot ..where I live the crows are more of a problem than pigeons , most of the phone calls start with "them f@ckin crows" 2 Quote Link to post
Stavross 13,714 Posted April 5, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 2 minutes ago, si brown said: the beans are going in any day now at one place I shoot ..where I live the crows are more of a problem than pigeons , most of the phone calls start with "them f@ckin crows" I’ve got one place that you will never shoot a pigeon but jackdaws and crows are mental, the only problem is they are more intelligent than me, I can turn up and the field can be black a shot later and they all bugger off to the other side of the farm and I spend all day chasing them around, but at least it keeps them off the field for a bit 1 Quote Link to post
lllluke1 328 Posted April 5, 2020 Report Share Posted April 5, 2020 The jackdaws with me are that clever. They only need to see a gun and they are off. I'm sure they even recognize my car 1 4 Quote Link to post
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