I cannot comment on the American numbers (as I know nothing about the American scene), but what I think the author was saying is that English driven pheasant shooting involves individual guns shooting a lot of cartridges and bagging a lot of pheasants in a relatively short time.
For those who don't know, a day driven shooting might involve a team of 8 'guns' who may possibly have pairs of guns and loaders shooting perhaps between 200 and 600 head of game in probably 5 'drives' lasting about 45 - 60 minutes each. In the day each 'gun' might fire 200 cartridges.
Traditionally, these would have been fired from light to medium weight s/s guns, though nowadays heavier o/us would be in the majority.
Last edited by JohnfromUK; 05/26/14 12:35 PM.
