Our friend Francois Dannaud, alias Acteon, wish us to share some pictures he took when grouse hunting.

This guy is also good with a camera.

Dannaud hunting the grouse


Have fun

DANNAUD HUNTING THE GROUSE

Great photos,thanks for sharing them.

I wish I could take pictures like that.

Gabriel it's up to You
Just visit the fair game in Rambouillet and You'll see Francois, who is a fantastic fellow.
He is a specialist for hunting in Ethiopia,
his email adress dannaudsafaris@gmail.com.
good luck
jb

Many thanks JB...
I wish one day I'll learn how to post pictures on AR !dannaud@dannaudsafaris.com

exellent pictures, thanks for showing.

best

peter

the pictures are really great

Excellant pictures, and nice packs of grouse.

Also cannot see guests being eaten by midges, which is always a bonus....

Thank you for the pictures. Scotland is great except the midges...

Hope you share some more pictures with us, aceton.
We all would love to hear and see more from hunting in ethiopia.

That is a wonderful slide show. Are the photos from the 2010 season?

Thank you !
I took these pictures 10 days ago on August 27 & 28, 2010.

Fantastic photos, I was amazed at the number of birds. Grouse hunting is a lot different here. The birds are in small groups and you drive from one field to another then search for them in "likely" places. Such as the edges of combined fields, old homesteads etc.

thanks for sharing!

thank you for sharing some of the best hunting pictures i have seen in a long time

J'aime les photos! Superbe!

Incredible photos! Thanks for sharing!

Excellent photos.

Tell us about how the hunt is conducted, I assumed that these driven hunt by beater's and the lab are the retriever of grouse?

Would a pointer be suitable if one were to hunt solo?

Last, tell us about the camera.

Awesome photo's. One should consult with Double Gun Journal as well as Peterson magazine group.

Driven grouse shooting take place with a line of 8 guens positioned in traditionnal stone-built butts across the hills, approximately 40 yards from each other.
One mile from there and forming a big circle with "flankers" and their flags on the sides, more or less 20 beaters start walking through the moors toward the line of guns.
Grouse fly fast, averaging 110km/h, even faster with wind.
Pickers-up and their labs or spaniels collect the birds on completion of each drive.
There are 5 drives a day.
Driven grouse shooting is one of the most exciting, spectacular,challenging, prestigious and ...expensive form of shooting in the world.
It only take place on vast estates holding a good to high density of birds.
A fairly good shot will normally achieve a ratio of 3 cartidges per bird in August when season open (on the "Glorious" 12th), and up to 10 or more cartridges per bird in November when grouse flies in big packs and horrible weather.
Grouse are exclusive to Scotland -where moors are often hilly and even steep - and some regions of northern England such as Yorkshire where ground is more flat and hold huge densities of birds.
The daily bags are averaging 50 to 100 brace a day on good scottish estates. Well over 100 or 200 on the best english estates.
This year a record bag of over 1000 brace was obtained by a team of 8 guns in one day on a famous moor of Co Durham.
On areas where grouse are in rather low numbers, shooting take place either with a line of walking-up guns, or with 2 guns walking with a pair of pointers.