V. quiet in here.

First shoot of season on Monday: let day 200 birds. Dry, overcast, not a 
breath of wind: could we persuade them to fly? Answer, as it turned out, 
was 'yes' but often not in the right direction! On one drive peg 1 
filled his boots (had and needed his other half as loader), 2 got a few 
and the rest had only a few ducks. Still, by the end of the day they 
shot 214 and were very happy as the 'pound seats' had been fairly 
distributed!

All in all a great day out and nice to see friends I hadn't seen since 
Jan 30th!

Derek

Wow  Thats a nice early day , afraid i;m not that lucky , got to wait till
the 26 for my first day , did you have the good fortune of participating in
this 'First let day' Derek,



ger


"Derek Turner" <somewhat@odds> wrote in message 
news:4343ab49$0$73624$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...

> V. quiet in here.
>
> First shoot of season on Monday: let day 200 birds. Dry, overcast, not a 
> breath of wind: could we persuade them to fly? Answer, as it turned out, 
> was 'yes' but often not in the right direction! On one drive peg 1 filled 
> his boots (had and needed his other half as loader), 2 got a few and the 
> rest had only a few ducks. Still, by the end of the day they shot 214 and 
> were very happy as the 'pound seats' had been fairly distributed!
>
> All in all a great day out and nice to see friends I hadn't seen since Jan 
> 30th!
>
> Derek 

Ger wrote:

> Wow  Thats a nice early day , afraid i;m not that lucky , got to wait till
> the 26 for my first day


still leaving the pheasants alone unless obviously last year's 
(well-tailed) French Partridge and the odd duck only til next month.


, did you have the good fortune of participating in

> this 'First let day' Derek,


Only as part of the faithful team of beaters. As an impecunious country 
parson I expect a whole season's shooting for &570, not just a day 
(however good!). However, the shoot-owner is very generous with his 
beaters' days so my gun comes out at the end of the season.

Derek