On the opening day of hunting season one year, the tavern owner and several regular customers left before dawn for New York State to shoot pheasants.

"Two Horns shoots fat pheasants," she returned.

"Mainly farmland there, place you go to shoot pheasants," Ryan said, remembering hunting trips there in his youth.

Your uncle bring you here today to shoot pheasants?

I am sick of shooting pheasants and partridges, and want to have a go at some large game again.

There is little chance of that," I said, "for, as I told you, I have never shot pheasants before.

He could play billiards and hold parties in the main block, and shoot pheasants on the estate when it was closed to the public.

He is practically quite well now, and took me out and taught me to shoot pheasants this morning.

Brigadier Julian Thompson compared using the weapon to "trying to shoot pheasants with a drainpipe."

"We didn't come out to shoot pheasants," Ms. Flanagan said, "but we thought some grass would be good for the kids."