Yeah, if they fall out of the ring then they don't count. If you knock then down but they're crippled, when the bird boy goes out to pick them up, they flutter out of the ring they're scored a lost bird as well. They've got to be knocked down in the ring, and then picked up by the bird boys to count.
I've shot down in Indiana at a ring that didn't have bird boys. If you knocked the bird down in the ring then it counted. That's rare from my experience, only place I ever shot it was like that.
It's a tough sport, very tough. I just shot a match against John Davis in January and lost by one bird. I had a 17 bird straight run in the course of the 27 bird match and still managed to lose 22 to 23.
Destry
Last edited by MarketHunter; 02/23/09 07:00 PM.
