I shoot at Quail Creek Plantation here in Florida. Four hundred pheasants and three hundred pigeons are tossed from a tower hidden in a copse [?]. 24 guns are the maximum and there are usually less when a gun or guns buy the whole post.
You will be caught with an empty gun from time to time. Some birds come out so strong and gain altitude so fast they might as well be satellites. Pigeons team up and fly in and out and frequently come from behind you. Guns rotate so that the benefit or not of sun and wind is shared.
I use one ounce of RST 5s which I find effective on those high birds. Behind the guns are the dogs. A safari lunch follows.
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