and then some bloke with a budget item out performs you?
About four years ago I used to be a regular Beater on a Sussex Game Shoot. On one shoot day eight Guns, two of whom arrived by Helicopter. This was a shoot attended by People like Jackie Stewart, ex F1 Champ, and others of that ilk, so not cheap. On Partridges one day, the Keeper Ian a good friend, was slowly losing his rag with the standard of shooting. He was never one to mince words with anyone, so he gathered the guns and said words to the effect that the Beaters were wasting their f.... time.
The reaction was sulks and complaints that the birds were impossible at that height and speed, coming off the Downs with the wind up their tails. Ian stalked off to his old Pick up, rooted around behind the seats and came back with his 'working gun' a 12 bore double Baikal, about £135 worth....
Two of the Pickers Up took their dogs up to a patch of Gorse and slowly pushed through it. Ian dropped 9 Partridges, all that were within range, while the Guns nursed their Perazzi Granditalias, Brownings, and one bloke a Churchill 25. These were people that spent hours and fortunes on shooting lessons too, they almost certainly shot more than Ian with his occasional pest control shot.
What's that saying about poor workmen and tools?