A couple weeks ago during our regular Sporting Clays shoot at our local Williamson Conservation and Sporting Club course here in upstate Williamson NY, my son took a slow motion movie with his phone of me shooting.
The station pictured has two clay pigeons coming at the shooter. Normally, whether the birds are hit or missed, they end up hitting the ground about 10 – 15 yards in front of the shooter.
However, my shot pattern must have hit the underside of the bird, or somehow hit it such that it caused it to fly higher, and a broken piece came at me as you can see in the movie.
Luckily, with my keen awareness and speed, I was able to get out of the way and the piece missed me and even more important, missed my Fox double that I was shooting.
Just a neat movie that I would like to share and I hope you enjoy watching it.
Click on the link below.
So, beware of those broken birds. It can do bad things to your shotgun. You too but that will probably heal OK.
Thanks to Rick Losey for editing the movie for me.
https://i.imgur.com/veAECN5.mp4
Beware of Broken Birds
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