This is likely to upset some of you, but I can see no logical reason why a semi-automatic shotgun can’t be used to shoot a pheasant. In fact, if I attached a false bottom barrel to the underside of my semi-auto that stopped exactly at the muzzle of the real barrel, in a properly spaced team of Guns, it is unlikely that you would notice I wasn’t using an over-and-under.
“We accept the four barrels fired using double guns, so why not a semi-auto?”
Yet even talking about shooting anything classed as ‘game’ with one elicits howls of protest and accusations of treachery to some unwritten tenets of tradition that nobody can accurately quote. Tradition that some might say has long since been sacrificed on the altar of
