amazing/lucky shots on pigeons, anyone?

[danebrewer10 6]

HI all, I thought I might share this with you all, a while ago I had a bumper day on the pigeons on barley stubble, I managed 25 in 5 hours with only 6 shell deeks to start off with, they were still coming in after I had run out or cartridges! (I had only brought 74 with me.... bugger!), but I had a trick shot as well!, I nearly got a couple of left and rights though the second shot always seemed to have evaded me, only knocking a few feathers out, but I did manage two with one shot! there were two coming in together, fairly close, I aimed at the first 1/4 choke and 30gm of no 6, missed slightly behind, I assume, placed the pattern between the two birds, killed the first outright and downed the other! I was amazed! has this or anything similar happened to anyone else?

 

CHeers

DB

[clint 45]

I see only well place , good shot , some hit ,some miss. Only lucky or amaising shot i see , is man no shoot himself when rest gun on foot,or climb over fence wanting pigeon ,or rabbit!!

[micky 3,325]

HI all, I thought I might share this with you all, a while ago I had a bumper day on the pigeons on barley stubble, I managed 25 in 5 hours with only 6 shell deeks to start off with, they were still coming in after I had run out or cartridges! (I had only brought 74 with me.... bugger!), but I had a trick shot as well!, I nearly got a couple of left and rights though the second shot always seemed to have evaded me, only knocking a few feathers out, but I did manage two with one shot! there were two coming in together, fairly close, I aimed at the first 1/4 choke and 30gm of no 6, missed slightly behind, I assume, placed the pattern between the two birds, killed the first outright and downed the other! I was amazed! has this or anything similar happened to anyone else?

 

CHeers

DB

I took my eldest lad out about twenty years ago,he was ten years old and useing an old single shot 4.10. A cock pheasant lifted from the bracken under his feet,and he raised the gun and fired,he missed the pheasant which i estimated to be about 15-20 yards away,but dropped a pidgeon ,at what we paced out at 50yards,a complete fluke,the gun was my grandpas old 4.10 hammer gun,and only took 2inch cartridges

[danebrewer10 6]

nice micky, I've heard of similar stories where people ave shot two rabbits with one shot from a .22LR, or there was one, I don't know whether it is actually trus or not, but some duke or high society guy in the 1800s, shot a pheasant and a salmon in the river behind it!, plausible, but I'm not sure whether the pellets would have made it far enough through the water....

[kingnewport 19]

Yer I've had two ferels with one shot, It was quite a good shot but didn't mean it

[Whitby_Sam 4]

On the opposite end of the scale I was out decoying with my mate the other day. We were sharing a gun so were both crouched behind the same hide when a big fat woodie landed no more than 8ft infront of us right on the edge of our decoys. Jon popped up, took aim and missed. Took aim again, released the second barrel and missed again. Don't know how he managed it but the bird hardly even flinched.

[danebrewer10 6]

ha ha, we've all done that! first tine I ever shot a shotgun was at a tiny baby rabbit, can't have been more than 7 or 8m away, I missed that..... suffice to say it didn't stick around! just damn annoying when you have suck an easy bird, either a flushed pheasant of a woodie lazily floating down into the deeks that you miss it and it seems to have divine protection!

[willum 89]

a few months back me and me best mate were bored on a sun afternoon so decided to grab the shoty's and go for a walk plus i just bought a hush power 4.10 so wanted to have a blast with it. walking along the side of a small spinny a wooody lifted and clattered out the woods at some speed me mate lifted his semi auto missed with all 3 shots by this time the woody was well on his way to freedom at a good lick of speed witht he wind behind him i thought oh feck it i'll have a go got 3" no6's in the chamber lifted the gun hell of leed and kept the gun moving pulled the trigger next thing i new woody folded in mid air and dropped like a stone. walked out just shy of 60 paces couldnt beleive it and nor could my mate.