I have read that Lord Rippon was one of the best shots of his day or any day. One story reported that while shooting his trio of guns he had shot and killed six different birds in such rapid succession that all six dead birds where in the air, falling to the ground, at the same time. We should not judge his total bird kill against today's restricted limits and today's much different moral judgments about hunting and limits. Men and times change and the norm was for the rich to shoot high numbers of game as both entertainment and a way to show their skills. In many ways I wish that I had been one of them. But then I would be long dead had I been and HomelessJoe might own my guns today and cut them down for his cowboy action shooting.
