Killing Time In The Field

It occurred to me the other day as I drove by Scuba Steve (England) brandishing a rifle, that I'm no longer amazed when I see a gun. Our foreman Brian (the other guy in the video) keeps both his and Paul's rifles on the back seat of his pick-up. If things are running slow, he'll pull one out for some target practice. In this case, they were shooting at a bottle. You can't actually shoot game unless they're in season, even though many, like deer, are overpopulated. They take poaching pretty seriously. If they catch you, you get thrown in jail.

Pheasant hunting is really big around Faulkton. Pheasants are everywhere at the moment. The season will open in a couple of months. As the boys are cutting, the birds will run out of the crop. Apparently, during the season, hunters will stand on the edge of the crop with their shotguns and pick them off as they make a run for it.