Back up at the shoot

[FOXHUNTER 5,021]

What a gobfull

[Baldcoot 2,352]

Anyone else seen this condolences to the loved ones and get well soon to the injured. 

A trailer of people on a shoot in Lancashire badly injured and 1 killed when a bridge collapsed 

 

[Stavross 15,359]

Very sad that and I know they wouldn’t of know the bridge was going to collapse and we all do daft things but they really shouldn’t of been riding around in a little farm trailer been pulled by a Polaris, we had a plant trailer with bails in it that we used to go around the shoot in pulled by one of the lads pickups, we had a few near misses with it so we knocked it on the head and make them walk everywhere now with one pickup taking the guns, birds and a couple of old buggers around the shoot 

[dytkos 17,784]

Risk assessment unfortunately. Not like the "old" days.

Cheers, D.

[BenBhoy 4,706]

23 hours ago, Stavross said:

taking the guns

And you do literally mean the guns - shotguns in slips. 

[BenBhoy 4,706]

Just now, BenBhoy said:

And you do literally mean the guns - shotguns in slips. 

 

[Stavross 15,359]

6 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

And you do literally mean the guns - shotguns in slips. 

Well, you don’t want to be carrying it about when someone will deliver it to you at the drive

[ianm 2,594]

On 19/01/2022 at 13:40, Baldcoot said:

Anyone else seen this condolences to the loved ones and get well soon to the injured. 

A trailer of people on a shoot in Lancashire badly injured and 1 killed when a bridge collapsed 

 

The bloke that runs that shoot has been arrested. From what i can gather he was running it for profit without insurance, he is apparently in the shit. The least injured person had three broken ribs and a broken ankle.

[BenBhoy 4,706]

How'd you go today stavlass?? Miss me?? 

[Baldcoot 2,352]

We had a great last day 3x teal ,mallards ,pigeon pheasants and a Jay. 

But no 1 wanted the Jay for the pot

[Stavross 15,359]

10 minutes ago, BenBhoy said:

How'd you go today stavlass?? Miss me?? 

Day number 7 and I wasn’t expecting a big day. When we arrived it was a lovely bright and cold day, nothing like last week, not having massive amounts of birds left we mixed it up a bit today, doing drives in different orders and doing a couple we wouldn’t normally do. First drive was the standard Gordon’s pen, as with every drive of the day there was not loads of birds but there was still some good birds and a bit of shooting, drive number 2 was the ruff patch next to Gordon’s pen that we use to hold the birds early in the season, this took a bit of time to get going but for the lads in the field next to the house they had some cracking birds over them, I decided to back gun this one because last week a few good birds curled back towards the pen, not today, I didn’t put the gun up to anything, all back to the farm for elevenses, sausage and apple pie, pork pie, cakes and some of the worst sloe gin I’ve ever tasted drive number 3 was forestry pen, now this was a mistake, we would normally shoot this late afternoon as the birds are heading back in, I think we only put about 3 birds out of here so lesson learned, drive number 4 was one we haven’t done for a couple of years, it’s almost next to the road towards the back of the forestry pen, so we lined the guns out and me and the shoot captain took the beaters past the block of trees and into a patch that was clear felled a few years back, this is almost impossible to beat now, me, the captain and another lad got in the thick of it and set off, almost immediately birds were getting up but a fair few of them were going the wrong way. As me and the captain went forward he stumbled over a sleeping roe doe, well the deer jumped up right in front of him, couldn’t get its bearings and went over on its back, legs up in the air, the captain let out a shout of “ fu*king hell” and also ended up with his legs in the air, while I’m laughing and shouting “ grab it, it’s in season “ once we got back to it and out of the ruff and into the trees quite a few birds made there way over the guns, this will definitely be a drive next season. Drive number 5 was the back of the forestry sheds, just a couple of pheasants out of here and a good few woodcock, many of the members won’t shoot at woodcock 

lunch

drive number 6, piggeries ( tree side ) I wasn’t expecting big things from this because it’s shot really well all season and they have shot the arse out of it, it even shot really well last week when Ben was up in all that fog, this week it did what I expected with half a dozen birds out, what did come out was high and very fast. Drive number 7, piggeries ( ruff side ), now the shoot captain said to me he wouldn’t mind a go, so I gave him my gun and he went right to the top and into the field, I took the beaters and we set off, from the off birds were getting up and young Josh who was walking gun in the field couldn’t get cartridges in his gun quick enough ( well that was his excuse anyway) they all got a bit of shooting here and when we got to the end I met up with the captain with his big Cheesey grin, telling me he’d downed 6, Mosh later told me that he was flagging the edge of the piggeries up from the captain and he said most of what he shot was crazy distances, I said “ don’t congratulate him, his heads big enough “. Drive 8 and the final one of the day we did the tip drive, I had a go at this one, pretty much all that came out of this one was woodcock, I managed a cracking one, I let it pass me so I knew the shot was safe and one barrel was all that was needed

at the end of the day we were about 28 pheasants and a couple of woodcock, not bad at all for where we are at in the season, next Saturday is the last one so fingers crossed we get to shoot a few more and have a few more laughs 

Ben, the answer to your question is ( if it makes you feel better) yes we missed you 

[Sausagedog 7,381]

I've just been out and whilst watching two fallow a little vixen pops up! Gave a squeak and in it came.

[Stavross 15,359]

Looks like your getting on with your ad-on Bernard

[Sausagedog 7,381]

18 minutes ago, Stavross said:

Looks like your getting on with your ad-on Bernard

It's alright Stav, just got to push the scope forward a little.

Edited January 22, 2022 by Sausagedog

[David.evans 5,323]

Or mr sausage, get a butt extension