Commercial shoots

[Matthew Arnold]

I enjoyed that Video Matt,thanks.

 

Do they really frown upon repeating Shotguns on Shoots like that?

 

Not really. We have a good variety of guns brought to crichel. We have a few antique days which have boxlocks, sidelocks and double hammer guns brought along. We also have a double gun muzzle loading day. Great fun as long as the wind is blowing away from ya.

 

Yes they do Mike.........I was somewhat taken aback by the amount of over and unders today.........bit of a towny crowd methinks........

Matt- I used to be involved with a shoot that started out from Bishops Court farm at Shapwick. We used to drive across about 3k acres of farmland all around the area.

 

My dad and i used to beat over at Langton Long before it folded. We shoot ducks and Tarrant Crawford on the watermeadows too.

[tommer9]

Beautiful part of the country.

[Matthew Arnold]

Was shooting as a guest gun today and made the most of it. One of the drives we shot 44 and i had 23 of them for 31 shots. Shot a tighty whitey though:blushing:. No need to pay the 50 quid fine though.

[jpbeaver]

A lad on our shoot shot a White bird and got the fine. He sent a letter and a pic to shooting times and got a set of hunter wellies, he was well chuffed.

[Hodge]

Why can't you shoot a white bird?

[Matthew Arnold]

Why can't you shoot a white bird?

 

Its normally a prized bird but at crichel the only prized birds are the Reeves cross.

[Matthew Arnold]

A lad on our shoot shot a White bird and got the fine. He sent a letter and a pic to shooting times and got a set of hunter wellies, he was well chuffed.

 

Might do that then ha ha. Although i have just got a free pair of Le Chameau wellies as my old ones fell apart.

[Andy Collins]

My understanding of the White bird rule is that they are put in to test the attention of the guns, rather than blasting away randomly at everything that gets up off the ground, they should ensure it's a legal and legit target.

[Lyn Ed]

if you`ve ever attented a driven pheasant day i think you`ll find that they dont blast away randomly at everything that gets up off the ground, if you did you would most probably get your marching orders off the shoot, i dont think there is no mistaking a pheasant in flight and i know a few experienced shots who have been caught out by a white bird when silloueted against the sky.

[NI Tree]

it also so the keeper know where they are moving exctra ie a refrance bird at feeding time that easy to see so they can track its move ments