Some say....

[Smellydog]

....taking game birds with a rifle is easy. Not really. This one was switched on and it took me a bit of a stalk to get a shot on it undetected.
Snitzel coming up later in the week .

 

[foxhunter]

I know what you mean , on my place the pheasants are truly wild and you cant get within centrefire range never mind shotgun.

 

[Sol]

Nice one.

I assume there's no issue shooting game birds with rifles? Honestly never seen it done before.

 

[Smellydog]

Nice one.

I assume there's no issue shooting game birds with rifles? Honestly never seen it done before.

I'm fortunate in that I get a few birds walk off neighboring shoots. Some years I get some wild broods if I can keep the fox's down but I think this year the buzzards have had them. There is only a few hens left. There use to be dozens. I leave the hens.
I prefer to use my muzzloaders on them really but every now and then I'll put a stalk in.
Thank you.

 

[VSS]

Nice one.

I assume there's no issue shooting game birds with rifles? Honestly never seen it done before.

No issue at all. Only some of the more narrow-minded members of the fieldsports community consider it "not the done thing".

 

[Smellydog]

No issue at all. Only some of the more narrow-minded members of the fieldsports community consider it "not the done thing".

Yes but I eat all my birds

 

[Taff]

No issue at all. Only some of the more narrow-minded members of the fieldsports community consider it "not the done thing".

A bit like deer stalkers, when it comes to bows, or greens, allegedly saving the planet,

 

[Smellydog]

A bit like deer stalkers, when it comes to bows, or greens, allegedly saving the planet,

I would love to use a bow. Stupid country.....

 

[enfieldspares]

Nice one.

I assume there's no issue shooting game birds with rifles? Honestly never seen it done before.

The part time keeper where I shot in the 1990s always used to go around on 31 January and 1 February and "rifle" as many cocks as possible as the shoot was part released birds and part wild birds. It kept the feed bill down for February, let the wild hens be a little less "molested" come the time of year and old cocks are not really desirable the following season for eating.

 

[long_range_rob]

Nice one.

I assume there's no issue shooting game birds with rifles? Honestly never seen it done before.

Common in Scandinavia.

 

[Smellydog]

The part time keeper where I shot in the 1990s always used to go around on 31 January and 1 February and "rifle" as many cocks as possible as the shoot was part released birds and part wild birds. It kept the feed bill down for February, let the wild hens be a little less "molested" come the time of year and old cocks are not really desirable the following season for eating.

I use to do that with my old keeper life long friend. It was tremendous fun to a twenty something year old.
It was done from a vehicle so quite easy. They soon learnt though.

 

[Longstrider]

If I eat a pheasant I can be sure there won't be any lead shot in it simply because if I ever bother to take one it will fall to a head shot from either the rimmy or the air rifle. I get a few that wander in from neighboring properties but I usually just chuckle at how ruddy stupid they are and let the dog have fun chasing them back to where they came from. Rather have a bit of venison for dinner any day.

 

[YoungGun]

The part time keeper where I shot in the 1990s always used to go around on 31 January and 1 February and "rifle" as many cocks as possible as the shoot was part released birds and part wild birds. It kept the feed bill down for February, let the wild hens be a little less "molested" come the time of year and old cocks are not really desirable the following season for eating.

That use to be one of favourite jobs as a student and didn't have to pay for meat.
..

 

[Ratel]

It always surprises me how many shooters, Keepers and stalkers don't eat game or venison.
When I worked up North the younger Keepers preferred to live on mince and tatties or scotch pies.

 

[landkeeper]

Phezzie skinned deboned and cooked long and slow in the slow cooker with plenty of veggies used to be my meal of choice when I had unlimited access

 

[alberta boy]

Common in Scandinavia.

Here too .

 

[Len the dog]

Phezzie skinned deboned and cooked long and slow in the slow cooker with plenty of veggies used to be my meal of choice when I had unlimited access

As a child and then teenager, Saturday afternoon was spent walking the fields with my dad whilst my mum spent the afternoon in M&S. We would come home usually to a rabbit hotpot with a good thick suet lid and she would make sure there was enough for me, my dad and the dog.
This of course was back in the days before onions were poisonous to dogs.

 

[Smellydog]

Well that bird was filleted Thursday evening. Friday night it was made into snitzel again and it was so tender and juicy.
I can't wait to drill another. Oh, and I could eat right up to the bullet hole and no itty bitty pieces of shot to negotiate.
Oh yeah, lead shot mumbo jumbo, I recently had a test done. No discernable lead levels! And that's after a few decades of shooting and eating shot game, not to mention reloading!
Go figure....

 

[One on top of two]

No issue at all. Only some of the more narrow-minded members of the fieldsports community consider it "not the done thing".

Absolutely this , a very good point well put .

Shooting Canada geese with a .223 rem is a match made in heaven .

 

[User00040]

I assume there's no issue shooting game birds with rifles?

Nope, ptarmigan and grouse with a .22 centrefire are on my to-do list (obviously not while they are airborne!)

Already done pheasant, woodcock, goose, duck.