Originally Posted by Imperdix
...and as for 50 MILLION pheasants being released in UK...another headline grabber....


Given that driven shooting is a business and that pheasants are the primary target, I'm not at all surprised at 50 million pheasants are released annually. Given that a line of 8 guns will finish a decent day with somewhere between2-300 pheasants in the bag, and will repeat that for the next day or two as well, numbers will add up pretty quickly. And that's not counting the pheasants that manage to escape the anti-pheasant barrage.