Stalking Show - Head Shooting discussion

[Adam f]

I missed the debate over Head Shooting on the Sunday and was really keen to hear the views and opinions. I thought that the Outdoor Gibbon was going to record and publish this?

Have I missed this? Anyone know where I can find it?

 

[NickJ]

I think the BDS are going to publish them but haven't seen any links yet. Peter Gibbon does some work form them so, indeed I think he did the filming

 

[muddy42]

maybe BDS still finds the topic controversial.

 

[Cris]

I was there and found it very balanced with little bias either way.
Consensus being that if you can and the situation affords the opportunity then no issue, but any doubt don’t attempt it.

 

[kieran222]

I was there and found it very balanced with little bias either way.
Consensus being that if you can and the situation affords the opportunity then no issue, but any doubt don’t attempt it.

This should be the approach for any type of shot, not just head shooting.

 

[Grand Slam]

I missed the debate over Head Shooting on the Sunday and was really keen to hear the views and opinions. I thought that the Outdoor Gibbon was going to record and publish this?

Have I missed this? Anyone know where I can find it?

The footage / sound recordings are being worked on and should hopefully be released soon. Same with the other workshops / discussions that took place over the weekend

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Should be banned!

I’ve followed and seen too many deer suffer and starve!

 

[Adam f]

The footage / sound recordings are being worked on and should hopefully be released soon. Same with the other workshops / discussions that took place over the weekend

Lovely. Appreciate the update

 

[Adam f]

With the rush of digital scopes on the market and thus the proliferation of shot videos posted on social media - it’s been worrying to see the amount of ‘new’ stalkers that have taken to head shooting as normal.

As with all shot placement there is a wrong way and a right way. I look forward to the debate.

 

[Grand Slam]

With the rush of digital scopes on the market and thus the proliferation of shot videos posted on social media - it’s been worrying to see the amount of ‘new’ stalkers that have taken to head shooting as normal.

As with all shot placement there is a wrong way and a right way. I look forward to the debate.

I had this discussion with a relatively new stalker recently.

 

[Cris]

I am afraid it’s just modern society driven by social media. Fewer new entrants look for mentoring by real fresh and blood people with years of real experience but look to the abundance of material posted on line as there guide.

 

[hendrix's rifle]

The irony of all this is, everyone head shoots rabbits at 50-100 yards with their 22 or 17hmr. Im not going to sit here and say no one should be head shooting but there's definitely a time and a place for it

 

[shakey jake]

The irony of all this is, everyone head shoots rabbits at 50-100 yards with their 22 or 17hmr. Im not going to sit here and say no one should be head shooting but there's definitely a time and a place for it

And every body looses sleep when they cant find a rabbit with its nose removed

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

And every body looses sleep when they cant find a rabbit with its nose removed

Well, that’s a simple solution Ban head shooting on rabbits too!

They’re not worth shooting anyway

 

[Bo Diddley]

Rabbits £1.00 each with the guts in...

Muntjac £2.50 each gralloched...

 

[Norfolk Deer Search]

Rabbits £1.00 each with the guts in...

Muntjac £2.50 each gralloched...

Wouldn’t know every time I’ve shot rabbits we left and where they laid

 

[Shootgun]

I wouldn't be able to stay on top of my muntjac cull if not head shooting....

 

[Bo Diddley]

Wouldn’t know every time I’ve shot rabbits we left and where they laid

Yeah, lots of folks do that, but it's not the way I roll.

My brother and underkeepers shot thousands every year when he was a keeper, and they used to leave them lying. I never got around the mentality of that, they were all on a salary, the game dealer was only 4 miles from the estate. The theory was that leave 'em for the foxes, and the foxes will leave the pens alone... my way of thinking is you're losing out on a few hundred quid and encouraging vermin...
Edit: And wasting a life.

 

[HonestJohn]

With the rush of digital scopes on the market and thus the proliferation of shot videos posted on social media - it’s been worrying to see the amount of ‘new’ stalkers that have taken to head shooting as normal.

As with all shot placement there is a wrong way and a right way. I look forward to the debate.

I think you’re spot on here. Digital scopes increase the psychological desire to be recognized in the modern online era. Head shooting stimulates this by falsely coming across as ‘cool’, or the shooter being an amazingly accurate shot with almost ‘tactical’ abilities

I’ve been seeing more and more of this lately, and the amount of head shooting, esp from relatively inexperienced, is frightening.

What is interesting in terms is the psychological ‘need’, is that a deer being ‘head shot’ is always mentioned. A deer chest shot, maybe mentioned as a deer shot - but it doesn’t get the automatic recognition of ‘I head shot it at xyz yds’.

I never see videos of the ones that go wrong. You can’t tell me they all go well, but I suspect those videos are quickly deleted from the app to avoid an ego battle within.

I now refuse to prepare buck trophies for anyone who head shoots as well; maybe, if you want that nice buck prepped for the wall, you shouldn’t have shot it in the bloody head! So you want gratification twice, once from boasting about it, and then from it being on the wall did anyone say it was the wrong one to cull and was in its prime

Get my coat and walking stick….

It’s a tool for the very skilled and learned, to be used in moderation when absolute safest or only possibly shot solution and there isn’t ’another day’

 

[jall55]

Wouldn’t know every time I’ve shot rabbits we left and where they laid

Please hang your tools up