Originally Posted By: Drew Hause
"The Big Shots"
http://www.thevintagemagazine.com/sports/the-big-shots-revisited-by-robert-jarman/

"Just How Good Were They" from Fieldsports Magazine is at the bottom here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x7uk0ii6-lPdWEZj5ctyqr1td19ZcsA5xGGoKBhP9o0/edit


Good reads indeed. Worth noting references to shooting guns with no choke (cylinder). Really "high" birds, which have become a mania with some shooters today, weren't that common. Cylinder worked because most birds were shot at skeet range, or not a lot more--and that's still more or less the case on your typical driven shoot these days. 40 yards is an unusually tall bird. I wonder how Walsingham, Ripon etc would do on the high bird shoots, where the guns are long and heavy, and a 1 1/4 oz load is on the light side. I rather expect they would have pursued the high bird challenge as eagerly as they did on the driven shoots typical back in their day.

Last edited by L. Brown; 11/12/16 08:38 PM.