On commercial driven shoots a "game counter" isn't used to record the number of birds an individual Gun might drop so much as the number of shots fired by the entire group of Guns.
There will be a previously agreed shots to kill ratio, and an elected number of birds declared for the day. If the group are less than stellar shots, the host or his assistant will be recording the number of shots they fire. Lets say the bag is set at 250 and the ratio 4:1. After 1000 shots it's "Thank you Ladies and Gentlemen".
IMO the use of a Norfolk Liar to record an individuals numbers is pretty fraught anyway; it takes no account of those pricked birds that sail on past the Gun line that are subsequently brought to hand by the picking up team. I've rarely (if ever?) seen one used for a single Gun.
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Last edited by eugene molloy; 03/15/13 03:59 PM.
