WILDFOWLING AND ROUGH
SHOOING IN IRELAND DVD
For Centuries the
Irish lakes and rough terrain have been a haven of wildfowl and game
of many species. In this video we follow the complete shooting
season, including duck, snipe, partridge, rabbit and vermin control.
Lough Neagh, the largest piece of inland water in the British Isles,
attracts thousands of duck every year. Young guns, Barry Turner and
Martin Doyle shoot the Lough almost every Saturday during the
shooting season, and the viewer can look forward to a spectacle of
marksmanship - be introduced to Dumper the best retrieving dog that
I have ever seen, and gain much information about the Lough- a
wildfowling paradise.
Occupying over 4000 acres of good shooting land in North Antrim, S
and R Sporting Agencies offer shooting breaks to sporting guns from
all over Europe. We were fortunate to be invited to shoot and film
on 150 acres of bog land where pheasants were almost as plentiful as
the heather in which they live. Brothers Seamus and Cathal McAleese
show off their Springer's- all three dogs giving a fine performance
of hunting and retrieving.
On another day we travelled the six miles to the scenic Island of
Rathlin where last season 10,000 red leg partridge were released. We
witness the driven beat, and with birds flying at up to sixty miles
an hour, the kill rate was one in six shots- sometimes reaching one
in ten.
On order to preserve game on the shooting land, vermin control is as
necessary as rearing birds. The fox hunts are carried out with
military precision, with often a dozen guns taking part. The age old
practice of ferreting rabbits is also featured in this wildfowling
DVD.
For those interested in Wildfowling and Hunting this DVD will make
excellent viewing many times over!
