October 19, 2011 – 9:05 pm
The glorious 12th came racing up on me like a steam train, leaving disarray in its wake as I tackled Yorkshire, Croatia, the 19th century and the Sussex downs in rapid succession. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Packages, Stalking, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged black powder, flintlock, isle of lewis, Mini-driven, partridge, pheasant, quail, Shoot, Shooting, woodcock, Yorkshire
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March 22, 2011 – 10:29 am
All clients are created equal, but the ones on the Outside Days Mailing List get offered sport first. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Fishing, Misc, Stalking, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged bargain shooting, cancellations, cheap days fishing, Clays, driven pheasant, fish, last minute sport, Outside Days, pheasant, sim game
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February 17, 2011 – 10:35 am
I make no apologies for dusting off this old chestnut and republishing. When the loonies, kooks and crazies stop asking questions that would require the publication of numerous volumes to answer, I’ll leave this one in the archive. Until then… Subtitle: The Things I Really Need to Know to Make Your Day Work We start [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Packages, Uncategorized, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged booking agent, Driven, driven pheasant, Hebrides, outer hebrides, pheasant, Shooting, sporting agent, woodcock
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October 9, 2010 – 5:01 pm
Two months into the grouse season and we are down to our last three days. From the Outer Hebrides to the Cheviots, the Lammermuirs to the Yorkshire Dales it has been an amazing season for grouse. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged Driven, game birds, heather, Hebrides, lab, moor, Outer, outer hebrides, pointer, pointers, record numbers, Shooting, Walked, Yorkshire, yorkshire dales
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On the cusp of a new season, with one bag packed for Croatia and another for the Yorkshire moors, I find myself contemplating the sport that lies ahead. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Packages, Stalking
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Also tagged Croatia, fish, migratory quail, mountain streams, partridge, Sea Trout, speargun, Split, springer, wily trout, Yorkshire, yorkshire moors
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February 28, 2010 – 5:00 pm
Subtitle: The Things I Really Need to Know to Make Your Day Work We start booking shooting for one season before the previous season closes, and are in full swing planning for the season to come by the time March becomes lamb-like. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Packages, Uncategorized, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged booking agent, Driven, driven pheasant, Hebrides, outer hebrides, pheasant, Shooting, sporting agent, woodcock
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September 9, 2009 – 7:00 am
Fortunately, excursions to the Outer Hebrides aren’t made or broken by the weather…for dour folk, the Hebrideans are weather optimists: whatever comes next, it won’t be the same twice. Very like the sport. After grouse, the odd snipe or passing plover, and a whatever the collective noun is for 3 salmonid species, we’d stretched FlyBe’s [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged Brown Trout, Fishing, golden eagles, Hebrides, Lewis, loch, midges, mink, mink trapping, outer hebrides, peregrine, plover, pointer, pointers, scottish national heritage, sea eagle, Shooting, snipe, trout, Walked, woodcock
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September 3, 2009 – 7:00 am
The best piece of canine wisdom I have been given is that the time to train your dog is the off season: using it during the season is more likely to undo training than perfect it. That said, what with trips to Texas, South Africa, and beyond clogging the first months of the off season, [...]
By Howard
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Posted in Uncategorized
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Also tagged clumber, Clumbers, cocker spaniel, dog, lab, partridge, pheasant, retrieving, spaniel, spaniels, Springer spaniel, training
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August 27, 2009 – 7:00 am
I’ve just stopped long enough to reflect on the truly glorious Glorious 12th we had in Yorkshire… I’m in the throes of complex packing for more walked up grouse (this time over pointers, not people) in the Outer Hebrides. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged fieldsports, FlyBe, Hampshire, Hebrides, outer hebrides, pointer, pointers, Red, Roe, Scotland, spaniel, Test, Wiltshire, Yorkshire
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August 22, 2009 – 7:00 am
My erstwhile fishing buddy Tony and I grabbed a day off between walked up days on the grouse moor to fish one of Yorkshire’s premiere rivers, the Wharfe. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us
By Howard
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Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting
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Also tagged brownie, dryflies, Fishing, Grassington, Gravity, Kilnsey, Klinkhammer, olives, Orvis, premiere rivers, Rivers, Tennant, Walked, Wharfe, Yorkshire, Zero
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