The weakest team on a driven day that I picked up on averaged one bird in the bag for each eighteen shots.
Given that figure you'd expect to see a larger than average proportion of pricked birds, but I didn't notice anything much different. Until someone comes up with some valid figures, a lot of the comments on wounded / kill ratio are just guesswork.
There is another "fad" amongst some Guns for using 28 bores on drives where high birds are present. That does lead to an increase in wounding. I picked 23 birds from behind one such team, and 15 were runners .... I stayed behind after the drive was over and really searched all the cover for about 45 minutes with three Labs before I judged I'd got all I was going to.
That was one of the occasions that pissed me off with the direction that driven shooting is taking.
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Last edited by eugene molloy; 02/16/15 09:31 AM.
