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The teal is our smallest duck and a most difficult mark: a trip of teal coming into foreshore decoys provides an easy enough shot for the first barrel, but their reaction to the shot is remarkable.

The next thing many Guns hear is a plop as the teal alights on the water. Experienced Shots use hearing protection that does not muffle ordinary sound.

The Twelfth is not exclusive to the grouse; it also marks the commencement of the snipe shooting. This diminutive wader also breeds on the moors and its appearance over the butts inevitably creates a frisson. Together with the woodcock, the snipe is classified as a wader but enjoys gamebird status due to its sporting and culinary qualities.

Owners of specialist driven snipe shoots generally consider the average Gun fires eight cartridges for every snipe bagged.

The snipe zigs and it zags — and does one shoot on the first tack or the latter? Its erratic aerobatics evolved to win the dogfight with its predators, the peregrine and merlin. Guns who take trouble to conceal themselves will find the birds fly over relatively straight.

Sometimes they will appear so high as to be little more than specks but this is deceptive. When directly overhead they are seldom truly out of range. This does not hold with walked-up snipe and sensible Guns keep conversation down and dogs in check. A rising bird emits an alarm call similar to the sound of a gumboot being pulled from a bog and success comes to the Gun who does not hesitate. Take the shot immediately. Mark fallen birds carefully. They are notoriously difficult for dogs to scent and their small size and excellent camouflage make them hard to pick.

Snipe are counted singly on the gamecard but a keeper will give you a couple, not a brace. Rights-and-lefts at snipe are rare for most Guns. In nine days in , 25 October to 3 November, they accounted for 1, on Tiree in the Inner Hebrides. It was no fluke; two years later the pair had 1, in 11 days. They are delicious, roasted whole and ungutted. The brains are an especial delicacy. Winston Churchill liked a couple for his breakfast, washed down with a bumper of port. When plucking it, keep the feathers surrounding its preening gland.

They are naturally oily and trap air, allowing fly-tiers to build a variety of deadly fishing flies such as the Cul de Canard Emerger. Although tame on village ponds, the mallard is renowned for its wariness in the wild. To overcome this, wildfowlers use decoys and duck-calls. In Britain, once every century, All Souls College, Oxford, holds a feast commemorating the giant mallard that flew out of the foundations of the college when it was being built in The next Mallard ceremony will be in In England and Wales all duck species must be shot with non-lead shot.

Snipe is dark meat but it is less gamey in taste than a duck. Recipes for snipe date hundreds of years, especially in Europe, where snipe is highly regarded and very popular. The Wild Turkey is indigenous to North America and is in the same family as the white turkey. The Wild Turkey males are brightly colored with red, green, purple and copper and weigh between 11 to 24 pounds; females hens are much smaller, weighing between 5 and 11 pounds, and their plumage is dull brown and black.

Their natural habitat is hardwood or conifer forests and eats plants, nuts, insects, lizards, and even snakes. The wild turkey is intelligent and clever, which makes the bird a favorite for the hunter and is considered very challenging to hunt.

Although similar in taste to the domesticated turkey , like any game bird, the wild turkey is lean and muscular due to constant activity and its flavor is dependent on what it eats. Woodcock is a stocky, forest-dwelling bird with a long bill.

Their black and brown plumage provides camouflaging at night and evening when they eat worms and other invertebrates. The woodcock was once very populous in Europe, Asia, and North America, but the breed has declined due to over-hunting. Conservation efforts in recent years have succeeded, and controlled woodcock hunting is a popular sport. Woodcock meat has more fat on it than other game birds and has a pronounced gamey taste.

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