When shooting flushing birds, you can’t use shooting sticks and you can’t take a little extra time and aim. The target is always moving at an unknown speed and most of the time an unknown distance. In the instance of a flushing bird, after you are startled by the flushing of the bird, the bird is trying to get away from you as quickly as it can. It will be flying on a sometimes varying angle, darting and changing directions as many as two or three times at the beginning of their flight!
You must be able to react with the gun, mount the gun to the bird and merge the muzzles onto the line of the bird from underneath, all the while not knowing where the bird is going!
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