The Shooting Show -- rook shooting and Longthorne Gunmakers

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May is the traditional time to shoot the young rooks before they get strong on the wing, and in late May we caught up with Shooting Show shooting supremo David Virtue to continue the yearly tradition. We have two tools for the job at hand: first the air rifle for a rookery close to a barn, then the shotgun for a larger rookery nearby. David goes after the branches while three English guests take the opportunity to bag some adult rooks. It's fast, frantic shooting, all the while achieving the twin objective of providing some much-needed population control and filling up the annual rook pie.
Meanwhile, producer Wes Stanton visits Longthorne Guns, an English maker of game guns that's now cracking the clays. Taking the new Hesketh sporter out for a test, Wes finds out how modern engineering techniques allow Longthorne to make a bespoke gun for less than £13,000 -- and just how Longthorne's trademark barrels are made.

[@theshootingshow]

The airgun was my own actually. It's an HW97 in .20 calibre. -Byron

Great video, keep them coming

[@pgtmg624]

Excellent video thank you for sharing.

[@Maddpadd]

Its a HW97k with the older stock (no checkering)
Can tell its a Weirauch by the larger are cut out for loading & it isnt rounded at the end off the main cylinder where the safety is located like a TX200

[@ciro79]

What a beautifoul monoblock shotgun at the ende,

[@avpinstarter]

great vid my 97k not as quiet either has yours been tuned if so what tuning kit please

[@Edgunsuk]

i am 130 days on mt FAC application now in powys over twice the listed time according to a BASC article in a shooting magazine from last month. as far as buzzards go , i moved here 19 years ago and counted 124 rabbits in a 3 mile walk along the canal ( brecon near glan usk estate) 2 weeks ago i did the same walk same time of day and year i saw 4 although glan usk is well knows for spreading myxi , that has been the case for decades so i have to attribute most of this to the buzzards here , its not uncommon to see a dozen sat in a field staring at each other during breeding season .

[@blokefromthebush]

Nice shotguns

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[@peterrasmussen1125]

What airgun did David use on the rooks? and what scope?

[@jamesw12345]

I have a HW97k, but its no way near that quiet and has more recoil than yours. is yours modified (spring etc) if so, what one? i want mine that silent and deadly!

[@saddlebrew1634]

Crur patrul. ROOKS!

[@e488uns]

Gun looked like the air arms tx200

[@derktromp1495]

good video.s shot the rook.s

[@jonathanechols9985]

I wonder what they taste like.

[@robelahamed2166]

btb

[@Edgunsuk]

£13,000 for a shotgun ? obvious who your aiming this show at , and it aint us,