The art of the ambush
Almost all of us, at some point over the course of a season, will end up shooting from a hide of some sort, be it a duck hide, grouse butt or, if you’re lucky, a dove blind. Each quarry species requires differing skills but the principles of shooting from a hide, or something like it, are the same. Anyone who has mastered the art of shooting from a pigeon hide will find they are capable of taking on duck as they whiffle into a pond. Equally, anyone who is a dab hand at taking on teal shouldn’t feel too out of their depth on a driven grouse moor. I will focus here, however, on the pigeon hide.
Hide set-up
Many shooters cause themselves problems when shooting from a hide purely because the hide set-up is wrong. If
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