Live pigeon shooting The 1900 Olympics in Paris had the great distinction of being the first Games where women competed. It also wore the ignoble badge for this sport, where athletes aimed to. Pigeon shooting is a type of live bird wing shooting competition. Traditionally, there are two types of competition: box birds and columbaire. In box birds, the pigeons are held in a mechanical device that releases them when the shooter calls out. In columbaire, the birds are hand thrown by a person when called upon.

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About pigeon shooting. Known to many as the 'grey grouse', the wood pigeon is usually shot in one of two forms - pigeon flighting or roost shooting. Flighting involves decoying pigeons into a pattern on a field of crop, using fieldcraft or existing 'flight lines'. Providers on GunsOnPegs will often set up hides and decoys for you unless it. Trapshooting, also called clay-pigeon shooting, or down-the-line shooting, sport in which participants use shotguns for shooting at saucer-shaped clay targets flung into the air from a spring device called a trap. A later variant, skeet shooting, is also included in trapshooting.

Glorious Game arrange pigeon shooting over more than 20,000 acres of ground in Hampshire, Berkshire & Wiltshire. We provide all the equipment - hides, seats and decoys - and stay close by you all day to ensure we offer the best possible shooting. We’ll also offer instruction if you’d like it too, as well as hire guns and cartridges.

In 2018 we had 20 days shooting with 42 hides and we shot 10,000 wood-pigeons. That’s an average 238 per hide. Our largest day was 1,087 birds to four guns.

Our professional guide has shot woodpigeons for 50 years (he bagged his first aged eight). He has been described by The Field as a “woodpigeon nemesis”, “a crack shot and pigeon junkie.” He’s not a bad coach either, as a renowned game-shot who regularly features in 1st XI lists of top pheasant shots.

A typical day

We will normally arrange a few days that work with guest’s diaries a few weeks before and then get back in touch three days before these dates in order to confirm where we will be shooting.

A day would start at between 8-10am; the hide will already be built for you.

Our professional guide will give a health and safety briefing and explain what you can and can't shoot. He will explain how a decoy pattern works and where he expects the birds to come, whether they are being flighted or decoyed.

In 2018 we had 20 days shooting with 42 hides and we shot 10,000 wood-pigeons. That’s an average 238 per hide. Our largest day was 1,087 birds to four guns.

A typical day

We will normally arrange a few days that work with guest’s diaries a few weeks before and then get back in touch three days before these dates in order to confirm where we will be shooting.

A day would start at between 8-10am; the hide will already be built for you.

Our professional guide will give a health and safety briefing and explain what you can and can't shoot. He will explain how a decoy pattern works and where he expects the birds to come, whether they are being flighted or decoyed.

You will have lunch in the hide unless you’d like us to take you off for lunch.

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The shooting can continue until 3pm in the winter months and until 7pm in the summer months.