Indians For Guns

Hi really enjoyed those pics great do keep up the show

Wow great shooting pictures..looks like Ralph Lauren type shoot great quality..where did you get these?

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Vikers i told you to stay of my land. how dare you take your old mates and start to shooot down my birds?

Very nice pictures Vikram. The number of birds is incredible. Thanks for sharing.

Herb

Vikram ,

I was hoping to find you somewhere in the pictures , may be you were the man behind the camera . Loved the Holland DBBL and the all terrain vehicle .

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B E A Utiful. thanks for sharing
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Damn good shooting from the Camera, how so ever took the pics, amazing pics. I am sure the camera was equivalently good as the H&H used.

I loved it, wish that some day i can also join hunt like this.

Thanks a ton for sharing pics.

The shoot is something even most of the people in the UK can only dream of.

Very expensive; notice that everyone had best sidelocks?

Shoots like this can cost more than £1000/day.
You get what you pay for (most of the times) the better the shoot, the more you pay.

Duke of marlboro's shoot in Blenheim Palace, they put up around 125000 birds a year (thats right its not a typing error). Costs more than £12000.

Grouse shooting is supposedly the champaigne of hunts. Great pics..

Glad you enjoyed the pics,gents. I did not take the pictures. I found them on another forum and merely passed it on.

The pictures of the heather are grand,aren't they? As Shooter says, driven grouse shooting is quite expensive and not affordable to many.

Our encyclopaedic friend Eug had these insights about the shoot.I thought you may find them interesting.:


Those haven't been on driven grouse day might be a bit puzzled by the second pic as repeated below.




It's a notepad as used by pickers-up, the guys/girls who handle the retrievers on the day. The centre of the circle is the grouse butt where the Gun, his loader, and picker-up are positioned, and the crosses mark where birds have been seen to drop relevant to the 25 and 50 yard circles. One of the other pics shows a lady sitting the butt; she I think is the picker-up.

It doesn't want much shot to bring a grouse down, they fly at such a speed that any disturbance to their aerodynamics can bust a wing. Inevitably though some will be nicked and keep going, so in addition to the handlers close to the Guns there will another lot well to the rear looking out for pricked birds that fly on. This for me is the epitome of retrieving; handler and dog spotting birds hit hundreds of yards away, marking them to ground and bringing them to hand quickly and efficiently. Currently a Gun is charged something like $250-350 a brace, so estate owners are keen to gather every one!!

The pic below is interesting too.




Note the flagmen and beaters away to the right flank; they will have brought the birds into the flushing areas from as much as a couple of miles back. I think the one guy is plenty close enough to the line of butts, don't you? The wooden frame thing on the butt is placed to prevent a Gun from firing towards other butts, or more pertinently the people in them! Students of shooting style will note the raised head and unscathed bird. The loader, holding the second gun of a pair, has placed his stick so that the Gun can't fire behind ... not a vote of confidence; maybe he's seen the guy before!
BTW Culloden House is a hotel near the battlefield where Charles Edward Stewart left his defeated, dying Highlanders in the lurch and bugged out back to France, so the shooting party had a bit of history round them ... that's Scotland for you."

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Vikram

-- Mon Sep 13, 2010 1:03 pm --

nagarifle wrote:Vikers i told you to stay of my land. how dare you take your old mates and start to shooot down my birds?

Sorry, mi LAIRD of Nagaland . When are we going to see you in your frock,err.... kilt?ROTFL


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Vikram

Just stumbled upon an old post of mine.Thought I would bump it so that some our new members who have not seen these may enjoy.

Hi nice pic mate...

What lovely pictures.
What a way to live your life!!!