I should note we have our own syndicate in SW Scotland....do our own keepering, fox control etc etc we pay £300 each a year to put down 400 pheasants and 100 ducks...nit a big shoot, but get plenty snipe woodcock pigeon to make up the day...more about fun and wind ups than big bags, hence the affordable part lol
Aye i've seen the same, on 1 shoot had a couple of nice drives but the vast majority of birds were just ur average sporting bird 20-25m tree top hieght, u look at the state of the birds in the game cart then look round at the empty shells on the trailer bed, often 36g of 5's or even 4's of some high speed shell.
Most modern shells will do the business its more the case if u can put the pattern in the right place.
Them smashed up birds in the game cart, how many pellets do you reckon they have in them?