Preparation for a Driven Hunt

Winged game? It depends. Grouse in August (twenty five years since I last shot driven grouse) is different from purely partridge in September (never ever shot on an all partrdge day in any September) is different from back-end "cocks only" pheasant in late December....where oddly sunglasses are a most essential piece of equipment!
 
Too specialised for me. Certainly fox drives exist and existed in Britain and hare drives too. My late father certainly took place in hare drives. And deer drives too when roe (in Englicsh woodlands) were considered more as vermin that something that people would pay money to shoot with a rifle.

But I doubt that there is anyone alive now (on this Forum) that has ever taken part in a rabbit drive. These in Britain (and I'll stand to be corrected) are very much 1890s and 1900s I am guessing.

So sorry I can't help. But I am certain that someone will be along soon that can. Happy New Year.
 
Tis a happy new year, only 4 months to go before the season starts again :)

This is a good way to practice.
 
Fantastic range there by the looks of it, and their comments are spot on. It never surprises me when I take stalkers out who complain that they never saw or never hit anything on a driven hunt.
 
"cocks only" pheasant in late December....where oddly sunglasses are a most essential piece of equipment![/QUOTE]
We must have gone wrong somewhere then as the only eye protection required on our shoot has been swimming goggles!:D
 
If you want to start getting some practise in early for next season you could always come along to the H4H running deer/boar shoot at the BSRC Bisley on Saturday 25th June.
 
Tis a happy new year, only 4 months to go before the season starts again :)

This is a good way to practice.

I shoot most weeks at the running moose range in the warmer months and once a month down the shooting Cinema.

Those shooting simulater as in your photo are great fun. There are a couple of versions and both are great.
 
Yes. I use the one in Paris. http://cinematir.fr/





The only drawback is that unless you have your 'scope on a very low magnification you suffer, inevitably, from parallax problems. Best solution was to use their plastic gun with a cheap adjustable aperture that can be turned right down to minimum yardage. But it is good for shot gun practice or rifles with iron sights.

There are two systems, the one as above, and the "other" one. The other one is like a video game from what I have seen of it in online You Tube videos.
 
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The only drawback is that unless you have your 'scope on a very low magnification you suffer, inevitably, from parallax problems. Best solution was to use their plastic gun with a cheap adjustable aperture that can be turned right down to minimum yardage. But it is good for shot gun practice or rifles with iron sights.

There are two systems, the one as above, and the "other" one. The other one is like a video game from what I have seen of it in online You Tube videos.


I was at the Swedish game fair helping on the spaniel club stand and my friend was shooting ducks on the same simulater as in your Youtube clip. It was funny to see my springer marking down the ducks as they were shot.
When i shoot at the shooting cinema i have the scope set on 1x and shoot with both eyes open. Also use the aimpoint.
 
Too specialised for me. Certainly fox drives exist and existed in Britain and hare drives too. My late father certainly took place in hare drives. And deer drives too when roe (in Englicsh woodlands) were considered more as vermin that something that people would pay money to shoot with a rifle.

But I doubt that there is anyone alive now (on this Forum) that has ever taken part in a rabbit drive. These in Britain (and I'll stand to be corrected) are very much 1890s and 1900s I am guessing.

So sorry I can't help. But I am certain that someone will be along soon that can. Happy New Year.


When i was a young boy the local keeper paid me and a mate to 'stink out' a massive banking that was just 1 big rabbit warren.
We soaked loads of tatties in cresote and had to carry them down and throw them down the holes and filled some holes in behind but leaving some unstunk and unfilled, went back a few days later to 'stink' those ones.
Took us ages to do it.

Was a complete disaster,don't think the guns seen a rabbit, god knows wot happened to them, think they all moved to a relatively young restock site a few hundered m's away (whoops) or moved further. But possibly not as many as u imagine as was a very old warren.

I thought they might have had rabbit drives a bit later, up until Mixy really took hold as still some big numbers of rabbit


I didnae realise u drove big game in OZ??
 
Yes. I use the one in Paris. http://cinematir.fr/


The only drawback is that unless you have your 'scope on a very low magnification you suffer, inevitably, from parallax problems. Best solution was to use their plastic gun with a cheap adjustable aperture that can be turned right down to minimum yardage. But it is good for shot gun practice or rifles with iron sights.

There are two systems, the one as above, and the "other" one. The other one is like a video game from what I have seen of it in online You Tube videos.

I imported the first of these simulators into Australia and have put more than 1500 people through it. You can use your own gun and scope by using a series of lenses covers which we put on the 1.5-6x42 swarvoski scope. Otherwise we use the dummy gun with an aimpoint 9000. From experience I know that most people on average shoot 5 minutes and about 66 rounds before fatigue sets in and they've had enough. But its very good practice for shooting at running game because the kinematic models of the animals are excellent. The Red Deer setup is superb and I've practiced a lot with that.
 
We stalk and drive. Going to be hard to stalk holding onto 6 bloodhounds, I have trouble holding two on a leash lol!
 
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