Is a reasonable to think the reason is the Brits when shooting driven Pheasants, are most often shooting incomers with the breast and vitals exposed? While they do turn and shoot some going away, the majority are incomers. In addition driven pheasants in Britain most often fall on relatively open grounds and there are multiple Dogs for the retrieve. Finding cripples is often not as much of an issue as here. Then there is the crash from 30 to 40 yards up, which is mostly rare here.
A going away wild Rooster is much different than an incomer or a crosser.
Just purchased 4 flats of 20 gauge 7.5's for practice and one flat of Bismuth 5's for hunting. Bismuth because in the course of a day you may go from a lead area to non-tox required.
Last edited by battue; 02/22/23.
