Hardest pheasant shot for you?

goldenboy

goldenboy

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Okay simple question. What is the hardest shot a pheasants for you personally and why? For me it is that rising straight away bird. I know when I shoot sporting clays that I need to cover that target with the barrel, but it is so hard as I am watching that big beautiful tail!
 
A bird for me going away straight left or right is a dead bird. My achilles is flush to the left and flying behind. If it is on my right it is easy. I always shoot behind a flush to the left. I have spent hrs trying to fix. I know for a fact I missed that one three times last year.
 
Sporting clay's or pheasants: left to right shot, pulling the gun into the body.

I don't think Tom missed a shot last year!
 
goldenboy said:
Are you left handed?
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With what I describe you would think I was. I am actually right handed but I don't think I am right dominate. I have a left handed son, and I do many things equally right or left. Kinda weird I guess
 
Toughest shot

The one where the bird is in the air. Not quite that bad. Straight away and elevating rapidly. Might as well just wave at em'.
 
More than once I have stood with an empty gun cursing at a straight away bird that flushed 10 feet away.
 
Incoming hard, I try to remember to turn away, breaking sightline of the bird and wait till he comes over me. Hard to take your eyes of the bird, but it's easier if you do!
 
I can't seem too sniff the one's my buddies get up and fly right by me. You know the ones. They are not even beating their wings when they come by.:cheers:
 
tough shot

for me it is a straight away shot in heavy cross wind, the bird is flying one direction and the tail feathers indicate it is going a different direction. the tail feathers catch my eye and i tend to lead off it and the bird lives for another day

cheers
 
When the rooster flushes between my feet, scares the living day lights out of me and I bang away until my gun is empty.
 
Roosters getting up in a strong wind really kicks my arse. :confused:
 
david0311

goldenboy said:
Okay simple question. What is the hardest shot a pheasants for you personally and why? For me it is that rising straight away bird. I know when I shoot sporting clays that I need to cover that target with the barrel, but it is so hard as I am watching that big beautiful tail!
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shoot several hundred a year in training and a trials--for me and the way my guns are set up I need to hold just under the bird and that seems to work for me and most others I shoot with--use same method for wild birds and seems to work there as well just the way I do it--:)
 
Carptom1, are you naturally right handed or were you taught to be right handed as a child? I remember being fussed at for shouldering guns to my left shoulder when I was a kid and being taught to use my right shoulder. I have a daughter who is naturally left handed. Over the years I have found many things I do left handed that I was never taught to do right handed.
 
The one that gets up and flys right at me and I have to turn around, pick it up coming over your bill on your hat. Then shooting as it is fast and high. The one you have to drop your barrel below so he flies into the shot.
 
FCSpringer said:
The one that gets up and flys right at me and I have to turn around, pick it up coming over your bill on your hat. Then shooting as it is fast and high. The one you have to drop your barrel below so he flies into the shot.
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+1 this is the toughest shot for me too. I think is because you have to change foot placement and shoot quickly. I dont seem to be able to change feet, and shot placement, for these shot, worth a dang.:eek:
 
JMAC...I totally agree with this situation - kind of a duck hunt scenario. If you wait until the bird is past 12:00, there's a whole new set-up! I think I would try and take the shot at 11:00 to 12:00 and forget it thereafter.

These are difficult, indeed!
 
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