Pheasant shooting is one of the most common game shooting there is. An average bag on a pheasant shoot 50-500 birds. High driven pheasant fly about 100yds in the air. Pheasant is a wonderful poultry meat, tasting like rich chicken. The game keepers of the estate breed the young chicks at the end of a season ready for the next season. most people use number 5 cartriges for pheasants.
There are Quite a few different people involved on a driven day, there ae the game keepers, beaters, picker ups, and the guns. The guns are the people that actually pay to shoot. Shooting is quite an expensive hobby. At tiny, tiny shoots you can pay about £50 per gun per day and then there the average shoot where you pay about £250 - £700 and then there are the big shooting estates like Chatsworth, Balmoral etc, where you pay over £1000 per gun, per day, But places like chatsworth and balmoral have an extremely high quality of game, intresting shot, beautiful scenery and hospitality.
Pheasants like to go in woodland, maize and meadows, so if you go on a pheasant shoot, you will most likly go through them terrains and maybe some others.
Usually you can take your gundog or the picker ups have them, these are highly traing dogs, trained to retrieve your dead game. the best gundogs are ones with soft teeth, there are loads of gun dogs and here are a few, labradors, springer spaniels, cocker spaniels, german pionters, vizzlas, the most common by far is the labrador. |
