Woodcock season

It's that time of the year again!
Probably my favourite bird to hunt, the Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). There fast, small and there damn hard to hit.
Unfortunately Italy messed things up as far as hunting for woodcock goes. They have some kind of really old tradition there involving catching them with nets that makes hunting them almost impossible in the rest of Europe (WTF...). However we are allowed to shoot a limited amount every year. 16 for this year.
I was out this evening but no luck. We hope to be more lucky during the next week as the weather changes and we get some more moonlight.

I'll keep you posted.


UPDATE: I've got 3 so far. Totally missed about 5 though. Damn there fast! Because we hunt them in small openings in the forest there's only about 2 or maybe 3 seconds in witch to shoot them.