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Reeve's Pheasant (1 Viewer)
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Farnboro John
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Around stately homes and turns up on pheasant shoots from time to time (half a dozen on my patch five years ago, no sign since.) I assume that when shoots buy their five million pulli, a few get shoved in to make up numbers or by accident or something.
I think I read somewhere that they are fast high flyers and therefore the devil to shoot - perhaps especially for the corporate gun that hasn't grown up with a twelve-bore in hand.
I'm probably going to be shot down myself for this but I think its Reeves' (or Reeves's) Pheasant.
John
Larry Sweetland
Formerly 'Larry Wheatland'
I wonder how many butlers have been gunned down on pheasant shoots due to the mishearing of "quick, bag that Reeves'" for "quick, bag that Jeeves"
auchinbowie
Well-known member
Always good to start new guns on a rough shoot for peasants, old chap! Returning to pheasants; there used to be a few Reeves' hybrids near the Fingeringhoe visitor centre. The Crossland shoot at Great Braxted used to release Golden Pheasants. I guess shoots often include a few exotics, which have been raised in captivity.
Dave
Nutcracker
Stop Brexit!
Now that makes for an interesting experiment . . . get hold of a few hundred day-old bantam hen chicks, and slip them in with the pheasant chicks . . . come back on the first shooting day, and see the reaction on the toffs' faces when they discover they've just shot a chicken 3
Farnboro John
Well-known member
Now that makes for an interesting experiment . . . get hold of a few hundred day-old bantam hen chicks, and slip them in with the pheasant chicks . . . come back on the first shooting day, and see the reaction on the toffs' faces when they discover they've just shot a chicken 3
Be even more interesting if it was a bantam cock, according to Jake Thackray.
John
MJB
Well-known member
For a spooky coincidence, John, the plans for a model of the Gresley Class V4 locomotive 3401, named 'Bantam Cock', are advertised on Reeves Model Engineers website: http://www.ajreeves.com/bantam-cock-390-c.asp.
Only two V4 class were built, the second, un-named, was nicknamed 'Bantam Hen'.
MJB
Farnboro John
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