Is there such a thing as an ‘easy’ bird? And how would you define easy? You often hear it said that somebody has missed a ‘sitter’, but one person’s sitter may be another person’s Achilles heel.
Inevitably, we all want to overcome those easy misses, but how do you actually get there? As ever, a lot of it is practice, but it is also a case of understanding what a bird is actually doing rather than just guessing at what you think it’s doing.
If I think about it from my perspective, and from the many conversations I’ve had over the years, there are probably four ‘easy shots’ that get missed too often. The first of these is the walked-up cock pheasant. It’s probably also the most frustrating shot when you do miss it. It seems so simple — up it bursts from cover, but rush