My first time shooting inYorkshire, I had been practicing long crossers, and chondelles, 40 to 60 yards, for several months before I went to shoot.
That was because I had heard that the shots were going to be 40 to 50 yards, with lots of crossing birds etc.
Birds were being driven off a hill, flying past me exactly as I had been practicing. I was standing in front of a hedge at the base of the hill.
Little did I know , That there was another peg 40 yards or so on the other side of the hedge. They sort of had the pegs in a crescent transecting the hedge.
So, for the entire drive, I pounded those long birds and dropped them on top of him. Worse yet, I was poaching them just before he was ready to shoot.
He was waiting for them to clear the hedge, and I was trying to prevent that.
My total poached was maybe 6-8 birds.
He was a good sport about it, unlike Ollie.
