great thread, is it really right to encourage eachother to coax pheasants in from neibouring shoots, I'm not judgig here, dont get me wrong I am undecided on the matter, i just know that a neighbouring gamekeeper might not take to kindly to it, nor would we if a significant proportion of our birds vacated our areas and where shot by a neighbou, especially one we might not know or get along with...
just a thought,
that being said, i think the advice is sound, do you not have any resident or migratory woodcock/snipe or wildfowl in the area, you could always invest moretime into improvin