Wing Shooting IN South Africa

The best wing shooting opportunities are in southern Africa within the Free State.

Wingshooting season: Opens; 1st June.

Wingshooting season: Closes; 15th September

Wing shooting is the art of using a shot gun to shoot all manner and species of birds in flight.

Becoming a proficient wing shooter, takes time practice and effort, learning how to wing shoot game birds in the field; wing shooters, should first practise on a clay shooting range with a qualified shotgun shooting instructor, before a wing shooter enters onto the game field to shoot live quarry in flight.

To summarise what wing-shooting compared to other types and styles of hunting and shooting, wing-shooting is simply the technique of shooting a bird or target in-flight and calculating the correct distance to shoot ahead of your target whilst keeping the shot gun moving, therefore giving you a clean kill, this is somewhat of a dark art to many hunters that are new to wing-shooting, when in reality there are a distinct set of rules and techniques that enable you to become a consistent wing shooter, enabling you to shoot moving targets with precision and ease.

Wing shooters use three basic techniques to calculate the correct lead (distance you are shooting in front of the bird or moving target), speed of gun swing is also very important, number one: a traditional Wing shooters technique would be “Swing through”, number two: a technique called “Pull away”, number three: “Maintained lead”, each of these techniques would be used in different circumstances when wing shooting.

One technique does not fit all styles of wing shooting, an accomplished proficient wing shooter will use all three techniques as required depending on the presentation of the bird in flight.