You can see the amount of lead I"m giving them and you can see the ones coming down, but the problem is
they come down over the woods and I'm like sort of
and out of the corner of your eye you leave it and look for the next one.
This today is one of our club days, so Guns On Pegs have launched
a new club where we thought we'd take some days between 150-200 birds
around the country and then we'll sell the pegs through the website given
that's what we do and we thought we can get some new people to join as members offer some benefits and
lay on some days in different places that we've been to, so this particular shoot
has been approved by us and and we know the guys here
Dave and Senior Dave and they
run the shoot and run a really nice set up here, so we took a day
sell some pegs to some members and then
we turn up but they do all the hard work behind the scenes.
It's a day out in the field with some nice people and even if you've never met
them before, you'll find that you go on shoots
and everyone's much the same, you know here for exactly the same reason it's a
day out to have fun.
The shootings almost a byproduct, I mean ever wants to come away from the
drive have been really tested by that high bird
and have a chat about it afterwards, and the one that got away, but
it's a day out in the field and you know amazing surroundings and
you know just a good fun day out.
The thing about shooting obviously, you're in some of the most remote
parts of the country
in the UK, and here in Wales you know there's hotels like the one we stayed in
last night that
that survives upon shoot teams coming to shoot in the area. If we're traveling,
I travelled up 4 hours yesterday to get here, you're going to stay over your going to spend
money in the hotel, have a nice dinner and get all excited probably have a
couple drinks in the bar afterwards,
you've then got the beaters in the day.
even the beaters will travel, the beaters come out for exactly
the same reason as the guns,
it's a fun day out. I used to go beating when I was younger
and it's a great crack doing all the beating work.
I think shooting is
not about killing. You know, so many people think if they don't know
shooting, they think
you go out to kill pheasants and things like that. it's not,
the food goes into the food chain and goes off to game dealers and everything else
but, this is just a fun day out
and it's just quite unique.
I'll tell you what, this is an absolutely
stunning weighted gun. I normally shoot a 12, which I know
you convince me that's properly best, to get as much lead in the air as possible.
Tell us a little bit about the 16 bore and what makes this
such a joy to shoot. It's the lightness of the barrels.
Because we make the barrels, there so much smaller
and the way we make them anyway, because we produce them with
making out of one-piece of steel,
we can actually produce them a lot lighter then you would make normal barrels. These barrels
only weigh I think 111.50 grams, and there 28 and half inch barrels,
With half choke in them. So it gives you
really nice balance to the gun and it gives you the punch of a 12 bore
really
I mean, you're only using 25g cartridges today. But
their loaded specifically for this gun and in there the right shot spade, everything
about it is just perfect for this gun.
and it makes handle nice, there's very little recoil. I enjoyed it and once
we manage get on them, obviously the covers a little high for me, so I've been shooting above
the first few
particularly the ones crossing over the right hand shoulder here, but once you kind of
follow instructions, if you have a loader always follow instructions
you're getting a very good
consistent pattern.
Much more nowadays,
things like what we've done with Guns On Pegs just made the whole thing much
more accessible, it's a free to use website.
These shoots that are in the middle of Wales that you would never have known
unless you met the guy in the pub,
are now available on our website so you can
contact shoots, it's getting a lot more people into sport that
haven't been involved in it by granddad and dad.
Some ladies like to shoot, together as teams, but
to be honest, the family days are the best. Everyone is out,
you're just the mixture in the lime
Some of the best time of my life is when we were three generations my
grandpa my dad and myself
and we'd stick grandpa in the middle because he could keep us on our toes,
because age isn't a issue in shooting and the family is what gets you into it.
You start beating, or you might shoot a 4 10 when your younger
and then move on up, to be honest that's what it's all about and maybe
a day around Christmas is properly the height of it.
Shooting is growing in popularity, the recession did have quite a big impact
and certainly the corporate market sort of
fell out overnight. There has been some quite big stories about banks,
they use to take days shooting, because it just the height of entertainment
being away out in the middle of nowhere is just fantastic.
It's one of them things that's been around for 100's of years,
it shouldn't be left to die, it should be carried on and past on through the ages.
For the younger generation to get involved and enjoy it.