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I don't understand why the English don't just call it shooting released pen raised birds...
Thanks to Chuck it's becoming clear...driven by automoble to the release site ?
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DRIVEN BIRDS IN SCOTLAND
hello,
driven grouse on the scottish moors involves only 100percent wild birds.i do not believe there is such a thing as a "released pen raised grouse".
driven grouse shooting is a costly sport and a cheaper alternative is a days walked up grouse shooting with a smaller bag,only to be undertaken by the fit and healthy.
cheers
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Kevin, a good alternative to the English or Continental driven shoots would be at some of the better tower shoots here in the U.S. "Show Me Birds", located in SE Kansas is a great shoot. I've shot there the past two years and the quality of the birds is very high. I do recommend a shoot with at least 500 birds. Here's their web site: http://www.showmebirds.com/2.html We should set up a vintage shoot for board members...I'm game if LastdOllar promises not to wear his kilt.
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I wouldnt dare, bibs only! We also have a tower shoot in Atwood Ks. thats about the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Cost as I remember is around 250, he throws a lot of birds nad serves a good dinner. Adult beverages are available...
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Joe,
We have been through this at length before - there is a world of difference.
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Are they not pen raised ?
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Are they not pen raised ? All I know about British game-keeping is what I read as a teenager in "LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER". The game-keeper there hatched the pheasant eggs under bantam chickens and they just sort of went wild in the forest (a metaphor perhaps for Lady Chatterly?)...Geo
Last edited by Geo. Newbern; 06/23/08 01:19 PM.
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Some wild chicks in that book all right!!
JC
"...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance."ť Charles Darwin
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The shooting part sounds like a somewhat similar experience to pass shooting dove along flyways but with amenities and a dresscode.
While I'd not turn down an opportunity for the experience at least once, I find I prefer walk-up hunting quail in hilly ground with unpredictable flushes with my retriever as my favorite shotgunning experience, followed closely by wild SD pheasant hunting a small group/individual, with pass shooting dove being way down the list next to clay shooting, to me at least. All good fun, but fun gets ranked as well as anything. But, the surprise flush of a very agile, quick and fast California quail after a lung busting climb up a hill is the most difficult and rewarding target I've come across...so far.
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ChuckH I think we mostly all agree that tower shooting will never replace wild bird shooting, but it sure does provide some fast and exciting shooting, and a chance to get together with a bunch of pretty good guys. The last shoot of the year here is particularly fun. The pens get cleaned out and you get Pheasants (not phez, whatever those are) chukars quail and ducks...Dunno if he will put any on this year, havnt seen any ads...
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