Very thoughtful and informative post, eugene. Interesting that your actual experience picking up after driven shoots does not bear out the much repeated mantra about "long shooting" wounding birds excessively. Having never shot driven pheasant I cannot speak directly concerning them. However, having done more than a little long and high shooting with shotguns I can say that I have noticed that those who have never taken the time and put forth the effort to learn how to do so are most often the quickest to disparage it. I certainly do not put you in that group, eugene. But, there are plenty here for whom that "shoe" should be a comfortable fit.

SRH

Last edited by Stan; 02/15/15 08:17 AM.
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