The Shoot - Beaters and Guns

Part of a series of pilots and tasters for an upcoming documentary series about a game shoot over a 12 month period. All ideas, treatments and footage Copyright MPL Broadcast Ltd 2007

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• shooting
• game
• pheasants

[mplbroad]

You knob. All the shoots I have been on sell the birds to a game dealer, give them to the guns (or 'shooters') as you call them and the beaters.

Discarding birds in ditches is now illegal.

[basil1200]

great video! shooting isnt a sport, it is and brilliant tradition and a way of life, i just hope the ignorant anti's dont try and ban it the same way they did as fox hunting

[Radders123]

Shooting wont stop. Far too many people involved and it's perhaps open to people from more walks of life that fox hunting.

You eat the birds afterwards too and the gameskeeping is great for the countryside. It wont get banned.

[mxktsmc]

I love haveing pop at this its just so easy,this sport is very dated and mostly enjoyed by very closely bred people in the Fens or dales wherever.They will say growing cover plots of maize or artichockes to hold there birds has the additional benifit of allowing insects to use it as a habitat and thus forming a foodchain for other birds and animals, Well thats great,But why do you have to go a release 100s of tame pheasant chicks into these plots.Well I guess so you can shoot em yeah

[oep308]

I am a beater ;P £20 a week, one day a week ;)

[USMGingerNinja]

I love beating also get paid at the end ^^

[nogarange]

perhaps we should tell all the bankers in the cities to stop losing our money see how they like that hey shooting must continue after all were supposed to live in a democracy Shoot safely

[jamieee321]

Wish my beating job was as easy as this... LOL this is a faggot beat. ;)

[carnigourousplotting]

@mxktsmc rund ere peoples take em home or sell them

[ash3rli3]

im going on my first beet this weekend and am realy looking forward to it . its all part of this islands way of life ,and long may it cotinue.

[keegan773]

You can't beat a good day out in the country with a Springer at your side. Be safe and keep shooting.

[mxktsmc]

thats great then,well done