I have shot at a tower shoot and "driven" birds. In both cases the birds were flight conditioned. The birds few fast and tall in both cases.


My impression was the tower shoot is were no one hunts, and the driven hunt is where the gamekeepers hunt and the aristocratic "shooters" pick off birds in the air. To the shooter in both cases I found very little difference.

Pigeons in a ring are released, and Columbaire birds are thrown, I have found both of these disciplines more challenging than driven birds.

On a less political note I would love to have that photographer "shoot" some of my hunts in order to see some real world pattern results out of various chokes, gauges, loads and distances.

B.Meckler