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Howard — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:29:42 +0000

All clients are created equal, but the ones on the Outside Days Mailing List get offered sport first.

In our 24-7 365 day world of blogging, tweeting and emailing, the List is the best way of reaching most of you without joining the spamming hordes. It gives us the opportunity to offer you deals from single guns in a line to last minute sport to cancellations that would otherwise pass you by. Most special offers never make it past the mailing list: last year 5 days of walked up or mini-driven grouse were snapped up in hours; numerous cancellations at half price; scratch days were filled before ever seeing the publicity of the blog.

For some of you, this will be like sucking eggs, for others I fear it comes as a complete revelation. Either way, the List works on the simple premise that if you are interested you’ll come back with a reply, if not you’ll just ignore me. It’s a hassle-free way of ensuring you’re in the know. Put your name on the List now.

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I’m predicting a BBQ summer (Morgy will certainly be having one). Optimist? Me? Well if not a July and August scorcher, I’ll settle for a sim game spring.

If you haven’t discovered the beauty of potting the featherless bird, Game Clay Days work on the same principle as a driven day’s sport, but with no beaters or sausage rolls and better weather. Instead of flushing birds over you, we fling clays from cover and woodland.

Whether a novice shot or old hand clay days offer a chance to dust off your sporting etiquette, brush up on your shooting and make plenty of noise. For the novices (to clay or game) we can provide loaders cum coaches to explain the intricacies of a driven day in a safe and unpresurised environment. And fire around 500 cartridges in a day.

The scratch days are back by popular demand, so if fielding a team of 10-16 guns proves impossible, why not join a made up team on:

Friday 6th of May or Friday 10th of June 2011

Scratch days are £175 per gun to include refreshments on arrival, lunch, and of course enough clays to satisfy anyone (in excess of 3,500 clays over the line in the course of a day). Call or email to reserve your place…as always it is first come first served on scratch days.

Alternatively if you can field a whole team of bangers, please contact me to discuss dates and requirements (yours and mine).

The shoot is located just north of the M27 at Romsey.

One Season Closes, Another Opens

Howard — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:39:23 +0000

When Britain mothballs game shooting for the season, my attentions turn to sport further afield, and to the next season looming on the horizon – a summer of game clays and fishing for trout and salmon.

While you’ve been reliving the season past over a pint and cleaning your gun for the final time, I’ve been to the GP to arrange shots and contemplated packing for a guinea pig trip to South Africa in May. Never one to live in the present, I had the details of that trip sewn up with my Christmas shopping: now I’m firming up plans for trips to Croatia in early August. Better known for boar and deer (which we can also arrange), Croatia is also home to a species of quail so small that disturbed coveys have been described as swarming bees. Cheap flights to parts of Croatia have made bargain sporting breaks a tempting prospect. We’ll be putting together teams to go to locations near Split and Zagreb in pursuit of these tiny dynamos. The sport will be quail over pointers at either end of the day (avoiding midday heat), and ‘cultural’ activities in between. As always with pointers, the ideal team size is 4, and the standard package is 2 days sport, 3 nights accommodation. If birds the size of angry bees are your thing, get in touch.

When game birds become protected species on February 2nd, trigger fingers across the country begin to itch through lack of use. Simulated game, or game clays as I like to call them, provides the remedy for many of you each year. From April until mid-July we offer days on several locations in the South, or we can bring the sport to you. Unlike driven shooting where the line is limited to 6 to 10 guns, we work on 12 to 18. Perfect for everything from team building to wedding guest amusement, we’ve organised days for it all. From fully catered with wait staff and candelabras to picnics in a hay barn or sandwiches from the boot, we can do it all. For the lone gun or incomplete line, we have a number of scratch days throughout the simulated season. Get in touch if firing upwards of 400 cartridges a day sounds like fun.

My sporting passion began with rod and line, and every year as the buds burst and the days lengthen I am drawn back to my roots on the river bank. Whether your pleasure is still water or river, novice or experienced fisherman, we have opportunities to flick fluff at trout for all. Days are booking up rapidly, but remember you can always fit in an evening’s sport after the office closes with some of our waters catering to the afterhours fisherman.

Hamptworth Country Fayre Sunday August 16th

Howard — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:31:25 +0000

One of the best kept secrets of the country/sporting show circuit, Hamptworth Country Fayre is a little gem, showcasing all that is best about the countryside. From the 50 bird sporting clayshoot that yours truly is running to the local hunt and its hounds to a select array of trade stands, everything is selected with care by the Estate.

The forecast is for a balmy summer’s day, so slap on some sunscreen, grab your gun and come on down to enjoy. Tickets are £5 for adults, £4 concessions, children under 6 free. We are just off the A36 in Landford.

Game Corporates Simulate Driven Days with Clays

Howard — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:47:17 +0000

Game clays offer corporate institutions the opportunity to swap the confines of an office meeting for rural vistas and salty banter. Simulating the experience of a driven shoot, game clays offer novices insight into the sport and more experienced shots the opportunity to hone their skills out of season.

The team who came down last week fired 4000 cartridges in two drives between 12 guns. We just discovered CCI’s latest clay, the Stardust, a florescent orange clay that explodes with a puff of pink powder when hit. By combining these with pink and white clays and awarding points for hitting certain clays and not others, a fierce competition was born.

Unseasonable May weather has given me a tan worthy of David Dickinson, but leaves the trappers muttering about hazard pay for their sunburns. A number of you have let us know our comment facility is on the fritz…we are working on it, but the computer genius behind the Outside Days website has gone walk-about on the Pennine Way so it may take a few days.

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Christopher — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:03:33 +0000

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Game Clays

Christopher — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:25:56 +0000

Imitating the best nature has to offer, simulated clay days combine the best of the shooting season and the British weather.

Corporate Packages

Christopher — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:25:44 +0000

Provide your clients and colleagues with a memorable day’s corporate entertainment.

Carefully crafted days can focus on perfecting one sport or sampling several. From fish on the fly to flying falcons for lures, and all the game clays in between, the permutations are infinite.

With riverside barbeques, high tea on the Downs, or a hamper lunch, tailored catering rounds out the day. Pick from venues in close commuting distance to London, or as far away as Texas. Let Outside Days help you bend imagination into an unforgettable reality.

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Christopher — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:07:13 +0000

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Christopher — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:31:56 +0000

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