It's called double gunning, which is quite common and as long as it's safe. Linzi shared a peg on a couple of drives as she only gets to shoot once a year if she's lucky. Meaning she's not the best shot, and I mostly went for the more challenging birds, as that's what I went to Wales for. The keeper said "the bags the bag" and okay'd it. It's not like we were shooting 100 shots each on one peg.
In my experience ‘Double gunning’ means a pair of guns being used by one person shooting from the peg with the assistance of a loader. The person shooting has a higer ‘rate of fire’ than if using one gun, but they still have a maximum of 2 shots at any given bird. It does not mean 2 people shooting 4 barrels at the same bird! Peg ‘sharing’ iS not unsporting as long as only one person is shooting at a time, 6 shots and swap works well. Peg ‘sharing’ is sociable, a good way to split costs & to coach inexpeprienced guns - done right it is a good thing.
If somebody turned up at our shoot (av 150 bird days) with a pair of guns and a loader - they would not be allowed to use the extra gun AT ALL. It is only ok if ALL guns have been offered that option & if the difficulty of the shooting / agreed bag size warrants it. For driven Grouse it is the norm, excusable because the birds arrive sporadically in groups with long waits between periods of action. For 95% of driven Pheasant / Partidge days it is not normal to ‘double gun’.
Appreciate your comment. We tried to do it so if my wife wounded or whilst she was reloading I would have a shot. Sometimes in the excitement of things we both might have shot at the same bird. Like I said before, it was fine with the keeper. This was a bought day and everyone was fine with my wife having a couple of shots on my peg.
That looks a lot like a place that I fish, are you close to Corwen by any chance?
Yes we were right near Corwen. We were in Carrog. Beautiful place.
@ It’s a pity that you didn’t meet the owner of the estate, he’s a real character!
Where in north wales I live on coast
We were in Carrog. Such a beautiful place.
Just wondering why you are both shooting on the same peg? Doesn't seem very sporting
2 people, shooting at the same bird from one peg? Not sporting in my view.
It's called double gunning, which is quite common and as long as it's safe. Linzi shared a peg on a couple of drives as she only gets to shoot once a year if she's lucky. Meaning she's not the best shot, and I mostly went for the more challenging birds, as that's what I went to Wales for. The keeper said "the bags the bag" and okay'd it. It's not like we were shooting 100 shots each on one peg.
In my experience ‘Double gunning’ means a pair of guns being used by one person shooting from the peg with the assistance of a loader. The person shooting has a higer ‘rate of fire’ than if using one gun, but they still have a maximum of 2 shots at any given bird. It does not mean 2 people shooting 4 barrels at the same bird! Peg ‘sharing’ iS not unsporting as long as only one person is shooting at a time, 6 shots and swap works well. Peg ‘sharing’ is sociable, a good way to split costs & to coach inexpeprienced guns - done right it is a good thing.
If somebody turned up at our shoot (av 150 bird days) with a pair of guns and a loader - they would not be allowed to use the extra gun AT ALL. It is only ok if ALL guns have been offered that option & if the difficulty of the shooting / agreed bag size warrants it. For driven Grouse it is the norm, excusable because the birds arrive sporadically in groups with long waits between periods of action. For 95% of driven Pheasant / Partidge days it is not normal to ‘double gun’.
Appreciate your comment. We tried to do it so if my wife wounded or whilst she was reloading I would have a shot. Sometimes in the excitement of things we both might have shot at the same bird. Like I said before, it was fine with the keeper.
This was a bought day and everyone was fine with my wife having a couple of shots on my peg.
Saying only come to wales to shoot high stuff,then end up smoking 25 yarders
Sadly the day wasn't what we had hoped it would be and didn't get many high birds.