Consequences

[6pt-sika]

Covid19 is bothersome in more ways than one ! I’ve added a bunch of reloading components already as well as a second Parker VH 16 gauge 30” . And now I’ve been scouring my usual sources for Parker VH/VHE 20 gauge guns with 26 and 30 inch barrels . I already have a circa 1928 Parker VHE 20 gauge 28” M&F . So what I’d like is a 26” that’s either IC/M or IC/F and for a 30” I’d like F&F or IM/F . 26” for dove quail that type thing and the 30” for sporting and tower pheasents . Incidentally for those that don’t know VH and VHE are hammerless doubles and the “E” signifies ejectors rather than extractors . At present I have VHE 12’s and the 20 but anymore I kinda consider them a hindrance rather than a plus as I’m usually trying to save my hulls to load again ESPECIALLY with the 10’s and 16’s . As to 12 , 20 , 28 and 410 I have way more than enough that I can loose a few but I’d just as soon not given the choice . The picture is of my 1928 Parker VHE 20 gauge 28” M&F . One at a dove shoot and the other from a Pheasent walk up two days after a tower shoot .

 

[enfieldspares]

What, please, is a tower shoot?

 

[6pt-sika]

A lot of preserves around here will put up a thirty or so foot high tower in the middle of a grove of trees preferably on top a knob . Then they place pegs around 360 degrees . Usually twelve pegs . And they usually throw 500 pheasents . Sometimes you get a goodly amount of shots at a peg some times you might get none . I did a tower shoot in February for the first time and I killed 19 pheasents with 32 shots . A couple I hit twice a couple I hit with the second barrel and a couple I missed plain and simple . I used a Parker VH 16 gauge 28” M&F which did a very good job . I think the highest shots I got were 40-45ish yards up . Before I went I was a bit apprehensive but found it wasn’t the difficulty I expected . Most folks were using 12 gauge and it seemed I did as good if not better than most the guy shooting the peg with me used his K-32 Sporting gun 12 gauge and we both were shooting ounce loads he killed or so he said 17 birds with 35 shots . My partner is a dog trainer and the retriever people there were most all friends of his , they “claimed” we were knocking down more than most of the people . This stuff is a bit pricey but I figure if I only do it a couple times each year it’s cheaper than trying to keep bird dogs etc etc .

 

[6pt-sika]

This was from the tower shoot . Sorry I was to busy shooting to take pics during the fact !

 

[6pt-sika]

After a tower shoot generally a preserve sells walk up hunts for three or four days . The day I did that we went for two hours and I was able to get nine birds with twelve shots from my little 20 gauge . If I keep at this I eventually wanna use my Parker VH 28 gauge 26” F&F with 3/4 ounce loads 7 1/2’s right barrel and 6’s in the left .

 

[enfieldspares]

OK...these are live pheasants that are shot once they've been released from the top of a tower? Or does the tower have a automatic clay trap on it that sends clay pigeons over the gun line?

 

[Claret_Dabbler]

This is about to go pear shaped....

 

[wildrover77]

This could catch on here. No birds getting released all over the place. Rear in poultry sheds in a Bio Secure environment then shoot from a tower. Save on beaters also.

 

[finnbear270]

This is about to go pear shaped....

Yup, I think it just might.

 

[Rutland lad]

Stalking Directory ??? Shotgun ?? Me, the 7th Earl of Wyndham - what were they thinking .....

 

[8x57]

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I think this will give you the idea.

 

[Smellydog]

It won't catch on here but I tell you what has...burying shot birds!
" Let him without sin cast the first stone".

 

[palmer_mike]

So pretty much canned hunting for pheasants?

 

[8x57]

It won't catch on here

Not it won't catch on here because it would be illegal (think live pigeon trap shooting). Plus it would go against several best practise and good conduct codes of conduct. I'm sure that many people would also have noted a couple of things in the video that would be considered as being unsafe or at least unwise safety wise.

Incidentally I know it happens but I have never been on a shoot where birds are buried or discarded. Quite the contrary the shoot that I last beat on was most emphatic that birds were not to simply be regarded as targets and all game was to be treated with proper respect.

 

[Smellydog]

Not it won't catch on here because it would be illegal (think live pigeon trap shooting). Plus it would go against several best practise and good conduct codes of conduct. I'm sure that many people would also have noted a couple of things in the video that would be considered as being unsafe or at least unwise safety wise.

Incidentally I know it happens but I have never been on a shoot where birds are buried or discarded. Quite the contrary the shoot that I last beat on was most emphatic that birds were not to simply be regarded as targets and all game was to be treated with proper respect.

Absolutely, so the guns took all the birds home and prepped them themselves for family and friends, that's to be applauded.
It is good to know these shoots still exist.

 

[deerstalker.308]

I had no idea this “sport” even existed, although why I’m surprised I, don’t know. What a shame.

 

[wildfowler.250]

This is about to go pear shaped....

I scrolled back to the top to check it wasn’t an April fools

 

[CarlW]

So pretty much canned hunting for pheasants?

Pheasants are already canned hunting...

 

[hendrix's rifle]

Pheasants are already canned hunting...

Nail, head.. You know the rest

 

[paul o']

Hell bells !

This is about to go pear shaped....