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Reprise: Idiot’s Guide to Booking Shooting

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 | Posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Packages, Uncategorized, Walked Up Shooting | Also tagged booking agent, Driven, driven pheasant, grouse, outer hebrides, pheasant, Shooting, sporting agent, woodcock | Comments (0)

Glorious Grouse from August 12th to December 10th

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 | Posted in Driven Shooting, Packages, Walked Up Shooting | Also tagged Driven, game birds, grouse, heather, lab, moor, Outer, outer hebrides, pointer, pointers, record numbers, Shooting, Walked, Yorkshire, yorkshire dales | Comments (0)

Idiot’s Guide to Booking Shooting

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

A Lewis Year: Four Seasons Six Species One Day

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 | Posted in Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting | Also tagged Brown Trout, Fishing, golden eagles, grouse, Lewis, loch, midges, mink, mink trapping, outer hebrides, peregrine, plover, pointer, pointers, scottish national heritage, sea eagle, Shooting, snipe, trout, Walked, woodcock | Comments (0)

Grouse Afoot: The Need for Speed

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 | Posted in Driven Shooting, Fishing, Packages, Walked Up Shooting | Also tagged fieldsports, FlyBe, grouse, Hampshire, outer hebrides, pointer, pointers, Red, Roe, Scotland, spaniel, Test, Wiltshire, Yorkshire | Comments (0)

Contact us

March 28, 2008 – 11:03 am

Our peripatetic habits and Blackberry addiction make email (through the form below) the best way to reach us. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us Name Email Subject Message

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Walked Up Shooting

March 26, 2008 – 10:28 am

The origins of walked-up shooting lie in our prehistory as hunter-gatherers. From quail in Texas to partridge in France, foreign opportunities abound. But some of the best opportunities to pursue a range of winged quarry are to be had in the British Isles. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us

By Christopher | Posted in | Also tagged Bird, British, countrywide, Driven, duck, France, Game, grouse, gun, Howard Day, Hunt, instruction, MacNab, New Zealand, novices, partridge, pheasant, quail, quarry, Shoot, Shooting, snipe, Southern Counties, sport, Sporting, team, UK, USA, Walked, Walked-up, woodcock, woodland | Comments Off

Fishing

March 26, 2008 – 10:26 am

Flicking the fluff can take the keen angler around the globe in pursuit of quarry large and small. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us

By Christopher | Posted in | Also tagged angler, Atlantic, bass, British, Brown Trout, camp, fish, Fishing, fly, freshwater, Itchen, New Zealand, Orvis, package, quarry, Rivers, riverside, salmon, Scottish, Southern Counties, sportspeople, stream, Test, the Gulf, trophy, tunny, UK, USA | Comments Off

March 26, 2008 – 10:26 am

Standing majestically at the northwest edge of Europe, the Outer Hebrides is a 150 mile-long island chain of beaches, moorland and mountain. Lewis, the largest and northernmost of the islands supports thriving populations of grouse, brown trout, red deer, and migratory populations of woodcock, sea trout, and Atlantic salmon. RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing [...]

By Christopher | Posted in | Also tagged Adventures, Atlantic, Britain, British, Brown Trout, countrywide, fish, Fishing, Game, grouse, gun, hill, Hunting, instruction, Lewis, Lewis Snipe, loch, lunch, MacNab, moor, Orvis, package, quarry, red stag, salmon, Scottish, Shoot, Shooting, snipe, sport, Sporting, Stalk, stream, team, teams, UK, Walked, Walked-up, Wild, woodcock | Comments Off

Outside Days shoots into the Blogosphere: Adventures of an Intrepid Sporting Agent

March 25, 2008 – 1:57 pm

For the more technically literate among our friends and clients, you may feel this addition to our website long overdue. Over the season, many of you express interest in what I do with the rest of my time (aside from attempting to appease my wife). RSS news feed Newsletter / Mailing list Contact us

By Howard | Posted in Driven Shooting, Events, Fishing, Packages, Stalking, Uncategorized, Walked Up Shooting | Also tagged Alberta, alpine, arapawa, Bird, boar, British, buck, clumber spaniel, cocker spaniel, Driven, elk, field, fishery, Fishing, fluff, fly, Flyfishing, French, Gascogne, gastronomy, goat, grouse, gun, Gun Dog, Howard Day, Hunting, Itchen, Lake Fork, Orvis, Outside Days, partridge, photographer, quail, record, red stag, Rivers, Rough-shooting, salmon, Scottish, Shoot, Shooting, Southern Counties, Sporting, Springer spaniel, Stalk, Stalking, stream, tahr, Test, Texas, UK, waterfowl, woodland | Comments Off

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