Few ducks from earlier in the week.

TP

Do the pheasants breed in the wild, or are they released for hunting?

Nice birds in your "bag" BTW.

They do breed in the wild and there is alot of driven bird shoots poping up all over the country in the last few years,where the birds are bred and released to be shot as they do in England.
There was a driven at Rotorua last weekend 8 guns shot 550 odd birds at 6K per gun.

I shot driven pheasant in Somerset in the UK about 15 years ago. However we shot maybe 50 +- pheasant, some ducks and a couple of foxes. The price was god at GBP125 each however. It was good fun to have a very rare bit of shooting while I lived in the UK.

I remember the farmer loaned me a WJ Jeffrey side by side in 12-bore.

Here's my first. Shot 6 so far.
Great shot as the bird flew high over my head. Unfortunately messed the head up a bit, or I would have had it mounted. Made a great feed, and then soup with the leftovers.

Nice ducks Top
Tell me, that wire around their necks, is that part of a snare you used to catch them in?

Nitrox,

I still charge my guns an average of £125 per day including breakfast and lunch, (not to mention all the sloe gin and port!!! )

We probably shoot between 50-70 most days up[to christmas. Then it starts to fall off a bit.

FB

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Originally posted by Fallow Buck:
Nitrox,

I still charge my guns an average of £125 per day including breakfast and lunch, (not to mention all the sloe gin and port!!! )

We probably shoot between 50-70 most days up[to christmas. Then it starts to fall off a bit.

FB

Ah a man to visit one day if you are willing and I visit the UK at the right time of the year.

Great pics.

Been pheasant hunting. Great fun with Brittany's retrieving.

Enjoyed it thoroughly except for a couple of tools with English s/s that would have cost a new Landcruiser each, but couldn't hit any. Everything else to blame.

But I got a few/

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Originally posted by oldun:

Tell me, that wire around their necks, is that part of a snare you used to catch them in?

Yip snares,