people don't like a scouser with a 9 shot semi-automatic 12 gauge
If you can't kill it with one shot then the rest are wasted 'cos there won't be enough left of it to eat!!!
I met a chap with one of those on a hare shoot, we were walking in and a hare rose and was going away from us....BAM BAM he shot it up the backside, LOL, he then had to carry the thing for 2 miles over ploughed fields.. hhmmm real country man he was!!
9 shots in the tube is ten shots in total - which is great for pigeon shooting from hides. I've had a few 8 bird groups from those ten shots before.
My 12 guage is pretty light - it's a re-worked 23" benelli so can carry it for miles - got sick of lumping an 8lb 32" O/U around the fields and having my arms want to drop off. Made the mistake with my rifle of going for a stainless "Varmint" action and barrel - awesome shot ( sub 1/2 MOA ) but the thing weights an absolute ton. Keep getting the gun smith to lighten it - am now on a compsite skeleton stock and a carbon fiber silencer but now it's a bit un-balanced.
There's worse things to have to carry for a couple of miles than a hare. Try lugging a grolshed deer down off ilkley moor via a series of conifer forests.....
Davie: how many ferrets do you run? My grandad used to work ferrets and lurchers together - no nets - but I've never been able to pick up the knack of working with ferrets - get absolutely sick of digging the ferret out so don't bother any more - but a few of the older guys in the village use them.
Do you make your own nets? The two local farmers around me are having horrific rabbit trouble. Normally they expect to loose about 1 ton/acre to rabbits ( mostly arable land locally ) but this year they reckon they're loosing two tons/acre which is a huge amount.
Some of the older women in the village are setting too to make a couple of 200 yard Long-Nets to try and help with the problem, and half the village is pitching in soon for a couple of nights of Long-netting. I had a go at the net making, but it seems very slow and pretty difficult, but they seem to be damn quick at it!
I don't think I've shot anything for a good while that hasn't been eaten. Mary - my next door neighbour - takes what ever I and the rest of the local shooters take and cooks it all up - then dishes it out to a lot of the OAP's in the local area. Most days they get a cassarole, burgers, stews etc etc from the shooting.
Steve
