GLS,
Your comment interested me enough to reply.
The shoot that we were on is just a normal Country estate farmland.
Yes the grass is shorn immaculately by sheep.
But if you were to see the gateways where the cattle have congregated ready for milking time you will find a quagmire.
We shoot about eight times a year, pure black powder days we have our own little group, we call ourselves The Black Hand Gang, due to the condition we get into reloading.
Normal procedure is 14 or 16 guns on 7 or 8 pegs (two people per peg) one muzzleloader and one breech loader (hammerguns, not those new fangled hammerless things).
The muzzleloader is on the peg first discharges his gun and then the breech loader steps up whilst the muzzler reloads, this way we can address any flushes. Everyone seems to enjoy the days.
There was an article in DGJ about 4or 5 years ago by Miles Gilbert, when he came over and shot with us, I think he enjoyed it also.
