At a shoot the beaters drive the birds towards the guns and they fly up over the shooters' heads - they fire upwards at the pheasants - to fire across the land would be dangerous - they'd shoot the beaters or the dogs
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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It could be worse - it could be peasants attacking your plums...

I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
At a shoot the beaters drive the birds towards the guns and they fly up over the shooters' heads - they fire upwards at the pheasants - to fire across the land would be dangerous - they'd shoot the beaters or the dogs
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.