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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
A shotgun shoots out a pattern that is MAYBE a 1-yard in diameter circle at about 50 yards. So a duck passing overhead MUST be led by a precise amount in order to score a hit. It is NOT all that easy. And a flushing pheasant in a QUIET FIELD makes you jump because it sounds like a Boing 727 aircraft lifting off. Plus the lead MUST BE BOTH above the riding bird and to the left or right angle that it is going. It is NOT some piece of cake to take game birds !
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As I said in my earlier in what has become a rather contentious statement, I am not against hunting, and before the UK government banned guns I used them regularly.
I had a .410 I used for vermin (rats) control around the farm.
I had a .22 to pop off the occasional rabbit for the pot, and did quite a bit of clay and skeet shooting on the range.
I used to course my old greyhounds over the winter stubble.
They were not the dogs they were in their prime, and most times the hare got away, but they enjoyed the chase, and I just loved to see them stretch out.
Then the government banned that as well.
My old dogs were livid!
PS. Didn't realize you were a ballistics expert as well!
