Planning to go pheasant shooting? Read our articles which cover how to shoot pheasant well, where to shoot them and which guns and cartridges to use. The Field has gathered all the expert pheasant knowledge in one place for you.
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Q: I live near a shoot, and my garden is inundated with pheasants celebrating the end of the shooting season and enjoying the calm. Every year they arrive and wreak havoc with seeds, vegetables and plants. What am I entitled to do with these marauding pheasants? A: The law says…
What are “high” pheasants? That’s a question often asked in the game-shooting world. Geographical position within the UK plays a massive part, as do weather conditions. In Scotland, Wales, Yorkshire and the West Country, the guns can be placed in valleys and the birds streamed over them. In that sense,…
We all aspire to having an iconic sporting moment. However sadly we rarely achieve them. It might be the red-letter day when you catch a trout on the mayfly, or jump that hedge, or shoot a serious January high pheasant. These are the moments that stay with you. And they…
Here are 10 basic tenets to help you judge range and shoot high birds. (Read more on shooting high birds here.) 1.Make sure your gun fits well A low comb is a particular disaster for high work. As you raise a low-combed gun above 45 degrees with normal cheek pressure,…
Pheasants may be the commonest gamebird, but their history is distinctly uncommon
Whether you are an experienced Shot or a new Gun, everybody could do with some pheasant shooting tips. So if you feel your technique isn’t quite as sharp as you’d like it to be and want to prepare before the season starts in earnest, take a look at our list…
The Welsh countryside has been shaped over the centuries by its rural community, a sense of common culture and a passion for sport. Shooting is fundamentally tied to this landscape. In his foreword to the Countryside Alliance’s Shooting in Wales – For Countryside & Community, rugby legend Sir Gareth Edwards…
There is nothing better when standing on the peg than being presented with birds that fly high and make a good show of it. Giving pheasants and partridges the best start is critical to the success of any well-run shoot. Gamebirds that are fed the best diet with the highest…
The Reeves’s pheasant will occassionally appear at a British shoot, but only as an escapee that will cost you a hefty fine if you shoot it. Do you know the history of what you are shooting? Read the history of the pheasant to impress at the shoot lunch. REEVES’S PHEASANT…
The Cheer pheasant originates from the Himalaya region from western Pakistan to Nepal, but it is a vulnerable, threatened specie that has teetered on the brink of extinction. For a more familiar pheasant to our shores, read Caucasian pheasant: the Old English Blackneck. CHEER PHEASANT The Cheer pheasant is native…
